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Água Viva

Clarice Lispector

4.23 AVERAGE


clarice touches so many layers of the human soul with her writing, awakening many thoughts and questions. im really in love with her style.
challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
challenging inspiring 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

I wouldn’t know what to do with myself if i had the physical version of this book (and i definitely will) because every line deserves to be underlined. This was not a book about a story; it was an experience, a book beyond the beginning and an end. It was meditative and i felt alive and understood and deeply seen and touched and i felt the whole world through my body. I found myself in her words.

I’m so in love. I need to read every single one of her books and then reread them all again and again and again.

I was so close to putting it down and burning it :)

“What I’m writing to you is not for reading— it’s for being.”

Rarely go for prose but I loved this one
challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

She wrote a whole lotta words in this book and they sounded very nice and unique together. I might not have understood every part but it was poetics and whimsical and amazing nonetheless