os livros de 2007
[2006, 2005, 2004]

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janeiro

1 bambi vol I, atsushi kaneka [1998, 198pp] ['mas a qualidade dessas groupies interioranas é baixa, hein?']
2 battle royale vol II, koushun takami [2000, 200pp] ['tá ouvindo a batida do meu coração?']
3 cochquixtia: o despertar, diniz conefrey [2003, 56pp] ['no templo do deus do fogo, meus pais, que eu não vos envergonhe']
4 point counter point, aldous huxley [1928, 514pp] [a perfumed imitation of a savage or an animal]
5 paroles, jacques prevert [1949, 288pp] [beau comme le jour / et mauvais comme le temps]


fevereiro

6 v for vendetta [1-10], alan moore [1988, 360pp] ['bring me my arrows of desire']
7 codex arcana, randy stradler [ed.] [1999, 28pp] ['kaäp, fossbinder!']
8 good omens, neil gaiman & terry pratchet [relendo] [1990, 367pp] ['buggre alle this for a larke. i amme sick to mye hart of typefettinge.']


março

9 the colour of magic, terry pratchett [1983, 182pp] [the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows]
10 o queijo e os vermes, carlo ginzburg [1976, 308pp] ['o caos se move sozinho.']
11 sip: love me tender, terry moore [relendo] [1995, 116pp] ['cê parece uma putinha de esquina! não sei se te ataco ou se mexo e saio correndo!']
12 sip: a vida é bela, terry moore [relendo] [1996, 94pp] ['eu não consigo me livrar dele.']


abril

13 os despossuídos, ursula k. le guin [1974, 342pp] ['sou um decendente de Pinra Od, a quem Deus exilou do Jardim por ter tido a audácia de contar os dedos das mãos e dos pés e ver que somavam vinte, deixando com isso o Tempo solto no universo.']
14 ada, ou ardor, vladimir nabokov [1969, 500pp] ['os olhos. os olhos castanho-escuros de ada. que são afinal de contas, pergunta ada, os olhos? dois rasgões na máscara da vida.']
15 sambre vol. II: je sais que tu viendras, yslaire [2001, 49pp] ['la liberté? vous avez de drôles d'idées, cousin bernard!']
16 sambre vol. III: liberté, liberté, yslaire [2001, 54pp] ['aux armes, camarades!']
17 sambre vol. IV: faut-il que nous mourrions ensemble, yslaire [2001, 63pp] ['elles seront veuves aux yeux rouges... qu'elles écrivent sur une tombe: il m'a aimée.']
18 fábulas italianas, italo calvino [1954, 400pp] ['ainda se espera a volta de cola peixe.']


maio

19 going postal, terry pratchett [2004, 394pp] ['words have power.']
20 pale fire, vladimir nabokov [1962, 315pp] ['i was the shadow of the waxwing slain / by the false azure in the windowpane']
21 y - the last man: ummaned, brian k. vaughan [2002, 90pp] ['it suddenly hit me today... that the rolling stones are dead.']
22 calvin and hobbes: there's a treasure everywhere, bill waterson [1996, 175pp] ['yakka foob mog. grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. chumble spuzz.']
23 calvin: essential calvin and hobbes, bill waterson [1996, 176pp] ['the world isn't fair, calvin.' / 'i know, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?']
24 hellblazer: original sins, jamie delano [1997, 256pp] ['he commands me to inform you that your ritual was incompetent and insulting. you should have used the cats!']
25 péntiti!, milo manara & rudolph angermülle [2006, 48pp] ['-']


junho

26 the devil wears prada, lauren weisberger [2003, 360pp] ['a million girls would die for this job.']
27 smoke & mirrors, neil gaiman [relendo] [1998, 346pp] ['i fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.']
28 cash: the autobiography, johnny cash [1997, 320pp] ['my work life has been simple: cotton as a youth and music as an adult.']


julho

29 harry potter and the deathly hallows, j.k.rowling [2007, 607pp] ['i know, mate,' said ron, who looked as though he had recently been hit on the back of the head with a bludger, 'so it's now or never, isn't it?']


agosto

30 venus in furs, leopold von sacher-masoch [1870, 109pp] ['all endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck']


setembro

31 closer, patrick merber [1997, 126pp] ['you don't understand the territory because you are the territory.']
32 fables 56: jiminy christmas, bill willingham [2007, 35pp] ['special dishpans time is over!']


outubro

33 le petit nicolas, sempé-goscinny [1960, 157pp] ['parce que c'est très vilain de faire du mal à un livre, à un arbre ou à une bête.']
34 fables 57-58: father and son, bill willingham [2007, 48pp] ['isn't it the definition of civilized to learn how to hide one's evil nature?']
35 ariel: facsimile edition, sylvia plath [2004, 211pp] ['what would the light / do without eyes to knife, what would he / do, do, do without me?']
36 ensaio sobre a cegueira, saramago [relendo] [1995, 310pp] ['se nos puséssemos a prever todas as consequências, a pensar nelas a sério, primeiro as imediatas, depois as prováveis, depois as possíveis, depois as imagináveis, não chegaríamos a sequer mover-nos de onde o primeiro pensamento nos tivesse feito parar.']
37 break blow burn, camille paglia [2005, 242pp] ['as a 'black' man, burnt by hellfire, he's the king of Hades who abducts Persephone and makes her queen of the dead - a role Plath covets. he sadistically 'bit my pretty red heart in two' - Persephone's ruby pomegranate reimagined as a bloody valentine.']


novembro

38 estigmas, mattotti & piersanti [2003, 190pp] ['e molhai-vos de sangue, e extasiai-vos de sangue, e saciai-vos de sangue, e vistai-vos de sangue']
39 wicked, gregory maguire [relendo] [1995, 490pp] ['you know, if you slapped yourself around, spiritually speaking, you might develop a phantom soul, or something that felt like one.']
40 contos de fadas ingleses, joseph jakobs [2006, 230pp] ['o que aconteceu com seus lábios antes tão rosados?']


dezembro

41 strangers in paradise: ever after, terry moore [2007, 173pp] ['you had me at "shitting sunshine".']
42 the oxford book of short stories, byatt (ed.) [1998, 439pp] ['dickie, dickie, you sly dog.']
43 bridget jones's diary, helen fielding [relendo] [1996, 271pp] ['wish had not been born but immaculately burst into being in similar, though not identical, manner to Jesus, then would not have had to have birthday.']
44 1001 nights of snowfall, willimgham [relendo] [2006, 140pp] ['for example, i assumed the killer had to be a man.']


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