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Água Viva by Clarice Lispector

rachel_o_reads's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious reflective

4.0

nuri_lilo's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? N/A
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

lilyvoituret's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? N/A
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

luberry's review

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fast-paced

5.0

pandimaldo's review against another edition

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reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

gintare_si's review against another edition

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5.0

The best is not yet written. The best is between the lines.

I denounce our weakness, I denounce the maddening horror of dying—and respond to all this infamy with [...] joy. Purest and lightest joy. [...] An atonal joy inside the essential
it. [...] Because it's too cruel to know that life is just one time and that we have no guarantee outside our faith in shadows—because it's too cruel, so I respond with the purity of an untamable happiness. I refuse to be sad. Let us be joyful. Whoever isn't afraid to be joyful and to experience even a single time the mad and profound joy will have the best part of our truth. I am—despite everything oh despite everything—am being joyful in this instant‐now that passes if I don't capture it in words. I am being joyful in this very instant because I refuse to be defeated: so I love. As an answer. Impersonal love, it love, is joy: even the love that doesn't work out, even the love that ends. And my own death and that of those we love must be joyful, I don't yet know how, but they must be. That is living: the joy of the it. And to settle for that not as one defeated but in an allegro con brio.

indoh's review against another edition

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challenging emotional inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? N/A

5.0

lyrabuttonn's review against another edition

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books like this are breaths of the divine whatever that is
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lauradee's review against another edition

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challenging reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? N/A
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

naluisa's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0