ploidia
🐝🍊🧵 ploidia (eng: ploidy) : the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell ☆ this psychology master student is in constant suffering ☆ she/her ☆ lusophone ☆
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o que te escrevo continua e estou enfeitiçada
a book that is many. metalanguage and metaphor all clumped up together. before reading this i remember thinking, 'is clarice really that good?'. how awful of me. she is everything and more. (yes, i read her back in high school, but this felt like my first official lispector)
i understand why she's the go-to brazilian writer for the europeans (although i still find it shameful that machado de assis is not as recognized as she is in my social circles). however, i also understand how she might not be for everybody. água viva, for example, is a diary entry from an artist; one that paints pictures and words. and it is so self reflective and self aware! it's like it knows it's alive. a lot of pieces to piece together and a lot of meanings to dissect; some of them will go over your head, others will stick. it's a few pages that read like centuries of prose. it's also very quick.
the lack of chapters makes you decide where to stop the reading; organic chapters, i call it. also, she was hornier than i expected in some parts. respect. there's no clear ending for this review. it continues.
i am aware most people are not as into spreadsheets as i am, but if anyone is interested in it (or just likes making things as structured as possible), i'm sharing my rating spreadsheet below
this is what i actually use to rate most books (i don't use it always, specially with older / classic books, because i think the categories don't quite reflect what's actually relevant in classics). overall, though, it really helps me organize my feelings and think of an evaluation that better reflects my opinion on each book
it's super simple: there's 5 categories, each worth 1 star. every category has then 3 possible ratings: zero, half, and 1 whole star. just check whichever option makes more sense and the spreadsheet adds up the numbers automatically ❤️ and provides you with the final rating in the bottom ❤️ magic. seriously, how can people not appreciate the beauty of spreadsheets? /j
i came up with the qualitative descriptions to help assign a rating to each category, but if you want to use this template, you can write them however you'd like, of course. i mostly wrote what made sense to me. use it however you want!
🔗 my book rating spreadsheet - view only | 🔗 my book rating spreadsheet - make a copy
it has two different color options in case you have beef with green+pink. to edit the template, make a copy :)
and follow me for more oddly specific sheet(s) 😘 lol
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