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Na casa dos sonhos by Carmen Maria Machado

1133 reviews

savannahhs92's review against another edition

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dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

one of my favorite reads of the year. i am in awe of the form, the prose, the pain (can you be in awe of pain or is that messed up)? so heartbreaking and so needed. i have so many feelings about this book i could not possibly sum them up here

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weirdow's review against another edition

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emotional reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

Very rough, but also easy to read. Beautiful writing with a large range of themes touched on. Really liked the use of footnotes and choose your own section.

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dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

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pressedlupine's review against another edition

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dark reflective fast-paced

5.0

Beautiful, perfect. I never listen to audiobooks but this one was so good. Such a haunting and impactful book. I loved how each chapter was its own self contained thing but also moved their story along. Some incredibly beautiful prose and poetry along with insightful reflections on being queer.

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katofalltrades's review against another edition

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dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

WOW. Read this book on a whim, based on the description in Libby and the availability of the audiobook. It felt so important and profound, and sucked me right it. I can’t believe that it was only 5 hours long, it felt like so much more, but those hours also flew by.

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challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

I would give Carla six stars for this book if I could. Ten? I listened to her read her story on hoopla, but I'm going to have to buy a physical copy so I can go back and underline and cry all over the pages. There were moments so vivid I had flashbacks to my own experience 15+ years ago, so similar, in too many ways to count. This wasn't some afterschool special. This was falling in love and out of love and feeling powerless and somehow, eventually, slowly, finding your power again, trusting yourself again, loving yourself, for once. I don't know that I could have read this book 15 years ago, but I wish that I had been able to read it before... Or maybe I wish that I had been able to reach across state lines back then, and find her, and that we could have shared our stories and gotten each other out sooner. Or maybe not. Maybe we couldn't get out until we could, until we did.

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.75

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nataliegoodman13's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

I cannot say enough good things about this book. Go read it. An all-time favorite that I will be revisiting again and again and again.

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leontyna's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional fast-paced

5.0

This book is amazing. The structure is ingenious and the writing is so beautiful. I really loved the mixture of personal stories and ponderings about queer history.

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