november 2025 finds is here! it’s kinda long, grab a snack. BOOKS 1. i read slowly but boldly going nowhere by megan dominescu. it’s an art book by a romanian artist whose show i saw in bucharest recently. i liked it! 2. baggage by alan cumming is his second book...
october 2025 finds is here! BOOKS 1. ce am invatat de la graham greene by andrei gorzo was a fast read. the writing style was quite fluid. also, i admit i skipped through the parallel graham green stuff. don’t bait me with a communist time story and then switch to some endless gg stories. if...
september 2025 finds is here! BOOKS 1. i only managed to finish china rich girlfriend and rich people problems by kevin kwan when i went to the beach. the trilogy is the perfect easy read. i occasionally got lost in the many characters, but it was compelling enough to read the whole 1,500 pages. my...
august 2025 finds is here! BOOKS 1. i’ve been reading the crazy rich asians trilogy by kevin kwan. it’s his first novel! it’s an easy read, a complicated network of characters and great world-building. also, it’s educative for an outsider. 2. i ‘read’ a photo book about brazil. for a beginner like me, it was...
july 2025 finds is here! BOOKS 1. i’ve been struggling with benjamin graham’s the intelligent investor. warren buffet recommends it as “by far the best book on investing ever written”. you should take that into account that it was first published back in 1949. in my edition, each chapter came with a commentary chapter. i...
june 2025 finds is here! BOOKS 1. i read imperiul pisicilor by alexandru tocilescu, it’s a bunch of short stories in romanian. i loved pisica lui dumnezeu. 2. and then i read eu at al, tocilescu’s first book, also short stories. among them, a full-fledged rape fantasy? wtf!? 3. filme romanesti by dan sociu was...
may 2025 finds is here! BOOKS 1. i finished sociopath, a memoir by patric gagne, phd. it’s and easy, interesting read if you’re into introspection. i recommend watching the video i posted at point 61 in this post. 2. i also read world press photo 2025. with a double arm amputee gazan boy on its...
april 2025 finds is here! BOOKS 1. i took advantage of the big power outage and pushed to finally finish sonic life by thurston moore. pro? it’s an unofficial history of the last decades of mainly american underground music. con? do you remember the episode of friends where joey uses the thesaurus? well, imagine a...
march 2025 finds is here! BOOKS 1. nascut in urss by vasile ernu was hard to get through. the author was born in what is now ukraine, but used to be a part of the ussr. this is a series of short stories detailing the soviet life style. i do not match his very high...
february 2025 finds is here! BOOKS 1. i found vernon subutex 1 by virginie despentes at my library. so, i re-read it in portuguese. next, i’ll read the second and third in digital form. score! 2. i read nadine redzepi’s cooking book called savourer, in french. the text felt a bit condescending, although i’m sure...
11.24, 12.24 and 01.25 finds is finally here! this is not what i planned, but it is what happened. i was away for two of these three months. things got out of hand and i ended up with my longest list. BOOKS 1. i read the first 150 pages of butter by asako yuzuki on...
october 2024 finds is here! MAGAZINES 1. the only printed thing i read this month was the current british vogue issue with saoirse ronan on the cover. MUSIC 2. as a life-long deus fan, i enjoyed watching time is the state of my jeans: the making of worst case scenario. 3. so here you have...
september 2024 finds is here! BOOKS 1. i’m zipping through tokyo junkie: 60 years of bright lights and back alleys . . . and baseball by robert whiting. it’s about tokyo’s decades worth of transformation and i can’t put it down. i’ve already added some of his other books to my wish list. MANGA 2....
