“When you're older you'll come to realize that acts of kindness are few and far between in this world of ours.”                                      ☘      Opinião em Português      ☘ Ira Levin became a horror fiction pioneer by writing the infamous Rosemary’s Baby, in 1967. Actor Guy Woodhouse and his wife, Rosemary, move in to the Bramford building after a unique opportunity arose. A building that both wanted and never had any apartment available. Rosemary’s gets acquainted with Terry, a young woman that lives with the Castevets. One nights, when Guy and Rosemary approach the building after a night out, they find out that Terry committed suicide. By chance, they run into the Castevets that night and soon they develop a friendship. Rosemary eventually gets uncomfortable with the excessive and smothering friendship. Guy doesn’t feel the same, becaus...

"Quando fores mais velho irás aperceber-te que há poucos atos de bondade, e distantes entre si, neste nosso mundo."                                              ☘      Review in English      ☘ Como contribuição para o projeto d’A Outra Mafalda, “Lê se te atreves”, em que consistia ler livros de horror no passado mês de outubro, li Rosemary’s Baby, recomendação da Mafalda. Ira Levin escreveu o infame Rosemary’s Baby, pioneiro da literatura de horror, em 1967. Rosemary e Guy Woodhouse, ator, mudam-se para o prédio Bramford, em Manhattan. Conhecem os seus vizinhos, Minnie e Roman Castevet, que se tornam amigos do casal. Com casa nova, novos amigos vizinhos e a carreira de Guy estar a ser bem-sucedida, o casal planeia engravidar. Não é difícil chegar à conclusão de que algo mais se passa, e que tem a ver com o Diabo, talvez ...

Hey ho! Let's go! Oh wait... wrong book!   ☘      Opinião em Português      ☘   I've been reading Stephen King's books chronologically but the curiosity got the better of me and I couldn't wait any longer. Through the 1272 pages (portuguese edition) we fight alonside the Losers Club against some entity called IT, which terrorizes the children from Derry every 27 years. There's two timelines - 1958 and 1985 -that they're simple enough to follow. The first part takes us in first recent deaths that open up It's cycle, following to the calls to get the Club back together to Derry, in 1985, and each one remenisce the enconter each had with IT. The second part, the timelines are joined together more frequently but they're simple enough to the reader to follow. As a matter a fact, it becomes more interesting therefore inscreses the suspense. Between the timelines, there are the Interludes, pieces of one of the Losers investigation on It's cycles pri...