Wildheart: The Daring Adventures of John Muir

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Tudo envolvido num tom de mistério e estranheza de comportamentos e pensamentos que deixa de lado os acontecimentos exteriores para privilegiar sensações e impressões. Having been introduced to Clarice with her gem of a debut, I take delight in my sudden acquiescence in knowing for what awaits me in the rest of her novels.

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Wild Heart is the second book in the Viper's Heart Duet. I loved Cement Heart and so happy that there was going to be more to Viper and Michelle's story! It was never an easy road for these two but they found each other. But, can they manage to keep each other? Norisi imt ir cituoti gabalais (nors šiaip tiesiog norisi skaityt ir skaityt tuos gabalus vis iš naujo): In spite of Lispector's apparently foreign-sounding Portuguese (she was born in the Ukraine) which the translator has translated into slightly foreign-sounding English, the author somehow succeeds in conveying the truth and meaning of Joana's conflicting emotions to the reader. There is a naturalness and spontaneity about the writing that makes the many impossibilities in the text possible. I can imagine that if anyone set out consciously to write the way Lispector does, or if she herself tried to repeat this kind of writing, it might not work so well. It works here because there are twenty three years of uncensored feeling poured into it.she really had split into two, each part facing each other, watching her, wishing for things that the other could no longer give. In truth, she had always been two, the one that had a slight idea that she was and the one that actually she was, profoundly.’ I don’t know a thing, I am able to give birth to a child and I don’t know a thing. God will receive my humility and will say: I was able to give birth to a world and I don’t know a thing.” Sketchy - not in a dubious sense, but just loose - in both art and story. There were loose ends everywhere. A tribute to the many accomplishments of naturalist John Muir. A reminder of the many reasons to marvel at nature, and protect it, as individuals and as society (policy, anyone?).

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So it seems as if Lispector more or less sleepwalked through the preparation of her book for publishing, allowing others to make all the important decisions. But when we realise that she had written the book over a very short period while working full-time as a journalist, studying for a law degree, and obeying the conventions of 1942 Brazilian society by getting formally engaged - then we are less surprised. When did she sleep, never mind make decisions about her book? Danny: I think it comes with age, Gary. I mean you’ve been on this planet for forty five years now, you get older and you mellow a little bit.

Her whole body and soul lost their boundaries, they merged and fused into a single chaos, gentle and amorphous, relaxed and with uncertain movements, like matter that was simply alive. It was perfect renewal, creation. She wrote "The Dark Swallows" while she was very young, basing the main plot on a true story told to her by a next-door neighbour about her mother and brothers during and after the Spanish Civil War. Before republishing many years later, she felt some revision was needed. The story is the same but she trusts that anyone re-reading it might find it enhanced by the revisions, while new readers might be satisfied.

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I loved Michelle so much,I envy her strength to never give up and to defend her family and feelings even when her lover is weird and acted so out of character. The prose is fluent, hallucinogenic at times, alight with figurative images and sometimes resistant to linear logic and analysis: this is writing that has to be felt rather than merely understood and so has an appeal to somewhere more visceral than just the brain. Born in London, brought up in West Yorkshire, and living some 20 years in Spain before finally settling in Bath, a city totally unknown to her before her arrival there, these very different places forged her writing career as well as her character. She has worked as a cow girl, a secretary, a teacher of English as a foreign language among other things, as well as writing books and being a wife and mother. In Spain she was always rescuing street dogs; in Bath she somehow managed to acquire as many as 5 horses (looked after by her daughters). One of her best-loved books, and which received many fan letters from young readers, was "Just a Dog", a partially true story of how Shadow became a much loved member of the family and who eventually was brought to Bath because of her astonishing faithfulness and intuition. Me: Let’s lighten the mood a little. I’ll hand it over to you. What should I ask as the last question Danny?Viper and Michelle's relationship is tested. Viper is lost. Michelle is concerned about their future. She loves Viper and she knows he loves her but doesn't know if it's enough. He is going through one of the toughest times in his life and feels that the hits keep coming. Because of this, he becomes moody, distant, and pretty much an all around asshole. He needs to step up but doesn't know how. Can he figure out what he needs to do to save his family before it's too late? This is my first Lispector book, but I already know I will be intimately familiar with all of her writing. She's the sort of writer who'll show you eternity in a blink. Or to be more poignant and pretentiously referential, she'll show you fear in a handful of dust. And all of that fear is the same: crippling existential agony. Then the cover, intriguing and unsettling, as from some futuristic dreamscape, where some woman is lying as if she was sleeping or waiting. But for what ? Or whom ? Is she waiting for somebody to wake her up to the life ? Or maybe she prefers dreaming than living ?