Bienal

[lu]

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.

Comments

[firstlightofeos.livejournal.com]

*sighs unhappily* Why can't you just respect me for once, and not get all upset? (And 'never be like that,' my arse. I told myself that, and then you know what? Look at me now!)

*sighs* Say thank you, dera. And please turn that music down!

You'd be surprised at how much I do understand. It's like you calling me an "old coot" when I'm with my friends...can't you just let me show off what a wonderful, sweet granddaughter I have, for once?

...Not even double-chocolate-chip?

*smiles* Agreed. Just...yeah. *laughs* *huggles* God help us both, yeah?

Evol, dera. Probably more than Odysseus loved Penelope.

[anokam.livejournal.com]

I'm not upset, okay? GOD. Like, whatever. (Yeah, okay, Grandma, we all know! You've told us, like, three thousand times. *sighs and rolls eyes*)

*calls boyfr—er...friend up* *complains and whispers*

*rolls eyes* God, Grandma, stop. *blushes* Listen, whatever, do what you want, okay? I'm talking to my friend.

*spits* I DON'T WANT YOUR COOKIES! GOD! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY IT?? YOU'LL NEVER UNDERSTAND! YOU'RE OLD AND DEAF!

*laughs* Exactly. It's so, so weird knowing I've known you for this long. But then again, it feels like longer. Doesn't it?

Evol, honey. As much as Guinevere loved Lancelot, I think.

[firstlightofeos.livejournal.com]

*raises eyebrows* You're doing a fair imitation of it, then. (Oh, have I? I'm sorry, dearie...you know, when you get older, you start forgetting things...I guess I just must have forgotten that I told you already.)

*rolls eyes* *threatens to unplug phone*

Oh, dera...can't you just talk to me for once? I'm your family, you know...I feel like I hardly know you!

*grabs chest* You can't mean that...you just...can't. *sighs* Excuse me.

(By the way, they were brownies, not cookies.)

*nods* I know; it does. What is it...two years now? Something like that? Feels like forever.

Evol you, darling, a thousand times more than Thursday loved Landen.