Reading on cpmachado

Uma Utopia Numa Livraria

cpmachado@protonmail.com (Carlos Pinto Machado) — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 13:53:54 +0000

Este ano tenho lido pouco. Na semana passada, passava pela secção de livros do Continuente do Carregado(também conhecida como a livraria de Alenquer), no qual encontrei dois livros de um autor japonês. Apesar de sempre céptico da onda sensacionalista de orientalismo, cedi e adquiri ambos os livros.

Estes apresentavam-se da maneira mais tentadora possível. Resumidademente, conta uma história numa livraria num bairro com cento e setenta livrarias em Tóquio. Só entreter a ideia da sua existência bastou para os agarrar e ir correr para a caixa.

On Reading Habits

cpmachado@protonmail.com (Carlos Pinto Machado) — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 11:21:18 +0000

Note: Created a new section on the books that I read at books

For the last couple years, I’ve been trying to improve my reading habits. Unfortunately, they’ve been lacking for the last few months. It’s a new year, and just now finished the first book of the year. Although it was a long one, that’s been present for almost the duration of this experiment, I’d normally range around half a dozen by now, and I’m not talking about skimming.

Honourable Schoolboy

cpmachado@protonmail.com (Carlos Pinto Machado) — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 23:32:42 +0000

It’s been two years to finish. The glorious day had this book by my side. I’m talking about “Honourable Schoolboy” by John Le Carré. It appears to me that finishing the book today is an omen of some kind, or so speaks my slightly superstitious side. Maybe being facetious in some way is a personal trait, can’t say to have an answer.

It’s the end of a cycle of drowning, or so I hope. I bought and started it, when everything started going nasty, professionally. When something goes wrong in life, it tends to spread like some kind of mould, and, before you know it, everything starts to collapse.