APRIL 2025 FINDS
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
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
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
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
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
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....
AUGUST 2024 FINDS
august 2024 finds is here! BOOKS 1. i managed to finish mr. know-it-all: the tarnished wisdom of a filth elder by john waters. read it if you’re into black humour and the behind the scenes of transgressive filmmaking. MANGA 2. i read berlin by jason lutes. the gigantic spanish edition includes all the 3 volumes....
JULY 2024 FINDS
july 2024 finds is here! 1. i bought la cantina de medianoche 7 by yaro abe in spanish and read it immediately. as good as the rest of the series! 2. i read the 3rd volume of akira by katsuhiro otomo in english. the ultimate explosion, the fear the last war unlocked for the japanese....
JUNE 2024 FINDS
june 2024 finds is here! BOOKS 1. i read cartea depresiilor in romanian. it’s a collection of personal stories by contemporary romanian creatives, coordinated by marius chivu. i liked it. 2. i iwas surprised how easy it was to read le picollo principe by antoine exupery in italian. 3. yellowface by rebecca f. kuang is...
MAY 2024 FINDS
may 2024 finds is here! BOOKS 1. stay true by hua hsu won the pulitzer for memoir. it was an easy, but pretentious read. 2. i loved a book i read about japanese ceramicist tokuda yasokichi III. he is probably the most famous of a line of amazing homonym potters and ceramicists. i first saw...
APRIL 2024 FINDS
april 2024 finds is here! BOOKS 1. i read tudo pode ser roubado by giovana madalosso. i was especially excited because it was my first novel in brazilian. 2. i re-read le petit prince by antoine de saint exupery in portuguese. it’s called o principezinho. 3. i was surprised by how weak souvenirs dormants by...
MARCH 2024 FINDS
march 2024 finds is here. BOOKS 1. i enjoyed spain: the monocle handbook. it’s a long list of interesting bars, bakeries, hotels, etc. 2. i checked out andaluzia by eliane faure (author) and christiae sappa (photographer). wonderful pictures! 3. same goes for extremadura by julian rodriguez (author), javier cercas (author), alejandro perez (photographer). 4. the...
