feisty mind

Between real and magic, I am oh-so many things: aspiring author, witch, mother, sportswoman, ambitious corporate professional, feminine bitch, slightly crazy.

So this is not a perfectly curated life here, it’s messy. Some of us were not, indeed, built for still waters.

Here I lay it all down (or almost all): the questions that haunt me, the quiet truths that won’t let go, the books that change me, the words that keep me awake at night, and the worlds I long to live in.

Feisty mind. Restless soul. Always moving toward the next chapter.

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  • Manacled

    By SenLinYu. After several months of postponement, decided that it was time. Another piece of information about me, I am a Harry Potter fan. The kind of fan who reads the books more than 5 times each, in English and Portuguese (my mother tongue). The kind of fan that uses daily golden snitches as earrings,…

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  • Reading Challenge 2025

    So the goal this year is to read 52 books. One per week only. The goal last year was 40 books and I doubled it, with 80 books read in 2024, excluding the re-reads. It was an excess and it cannot happen in 2025. Discipline. Control. I can do it.

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  • Nocticadia

    By Keri Lake. The first 5* book of 2025. An exact mix of an amazing thriller plot (science-based as I like it), mixed with romance, wonder places, and good smut. And the writing had the perfect depth, never cliché. It made me feel a lot of things. I tilted my head back towards the window…

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  • Under water

    With everything except the book. Still in the office, I struggle with life choices. When I said in December “this is a topic for January”, I did not realize how many topics I had left it hanging. Nor how many would pop-up on my desk at the same time. Some days, the only thing I…

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  • New Year’s resolutions

    For 2025, the same as for 2024: Having this book written. Because this is more than a book, this is a plan, a dream, a goal. Since 1995 when I got my first diary (a small, green book from Naf Naf with a locker), writing and reading have been my escape from life, a way…

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  • The book genre

    Should I do a big reveal for it? Or probably you guess it already? Although I am due to a lot of “currently reading” books for you… But the genre is High Fantasy. With a side portion of romance, a pinch of contemporary, some drops of poetry and a breeze of smut. It will be…

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  • Nights off…

    …at the office. Little plate of pasta, 3 decafs, 2 screens and a lot of research and learning done. If you want to write undisturbed and you have young kids (as I do), the quite night office is the way to go. Of course, for the first time, had to explain to my boss why…

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  • The Songbird and the Heart of Stone

    By Carissa Broadbent You know a book is good when you start underlying full sentences on the prologue. This book, as every other that she writes, breaks your souls, chews you up and leaves you fraying. They are not a light reading. In times of great darkness, humans crawl to light like flies to the…

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  • The time I lost my mind

    Woke up again to those damn green eyes. Like poison ivy suffocating me, touching me everywhere. It is not the first time this has happened. While playing it cool on the outside, my mind is constantly pulled to those jade whispering eyes, like a scratched 80s vinyl record. I am not even sure when this…

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