My year in books: 2018
Tríos
No Voy a Pedirle a Nadie que Me Crea by Juan Pablo Villalobos
Contra el Trabajo
“Estoy a un tiempo feliz y triste, exaltado y deprimido, sobrecogido tanto por el placer como por la desesperación en la más contradictoria de las armonías. Estoy tan alegre y al mismo tiempo tan entristecido que mis lágrimas reflejan al mismo tiempo el cielo y la tierra. Si tan sólo fuera por la felicidad de mi tristeza, desearía que no hubiera muerte en esta tierra.”
Seven Brief Lessons On Physics by Carlo Robelli
“We are made of the same stardust of which all things are made, and when we are immersed in suffering or when we are experiencing intense joy we are being nothing other than what we can’t help but be: a part of our world.”
“Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world. And it’s breathtaking.”
The Situation and The Story by Vivian Gornick
I'm Thinking About Ending Things by Iain Reid
“When we choose to bring the end closer, we create a new beginning.”
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Where I Lived, and Where I Lived For by Henry David Thoreau
Si Viviéramos en un Lugar Normal by Juan Pablo Villalobos
Rapt - Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher
Fiesta en la Madriguera - Juan Pablo Villalobos
A Field Guide to Getting Lost - Rebecca Solnit
“The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of the transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration - how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?”
This is How You Lose Her - Junot Díaz
When Women Were Birds - Terry Tempest Williams
La Balada de Rocky Rontal - Daniel Alarcón
A Lover's Discourse - Roland Barthes
The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism - Kristin Dombek
The Beauty Myth - Naomi Wolf
Marc Auge - Everybody Dies Young
Daniel Alarcón - At Night We Walk in Circles
