Well, everyone is talking about it, so I figured I should just say a little bit about My Favourite Book Fair of All Time.

Bienal has always meant a lot to me. Ever since I was a kid my mother took me there, every two years. After I moved to São Paulo I started going every year, one there and one here, in Rio. There was never a Bienal that wasn't special to me in some way.

Over the past four years, they all brought excellent surprises. In 2003, I came out of the closet for the first time in my life. My confident was my best friend and future girlfriend, deadcinderella.

In 2004 I got closer to my freshly acquired friends in São Paulo, especially to hermikiller who would also turn out to be a future girlfriend.

2005 was a Rio year, and I went with my mother, my sister, deadcinderella and christycorr. One of the first times I went out with Chris, and the first weekend we saw each other every day. I guess I don't really have to explain how that turned out.

This year, 2006, I was only able to go on a Wednesday, usually a fairly calm day. Of course, I wasn't counting on the school trips to the place. I met xxxemo_girlxxx, bought only two books on Roman History, and saved the money to spend at Livraria Cultura afterwards. I had a great time, and my companion this time was my best gay friend, magnun.

I wonder if we'll ever date. *laughs*


- The Civil War, Gaius Julius Caesar & other authors
- Fall of the Roman Republic, Plutarch
- A History of the Roman World, H. H. Scullard
- From the Gracchi to Nero, H. H. Scullard
- 1984, George Orwell
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- Le Comte the Monte-Cristo (vol. 1), Alexandre Dumas
- In Cold Blood, Truman Capote.

Post scriptum: dehds, thanks for finding the songs.