I’ve read 10 entire books! Probably more than I have ever read in a year, nowadays. I came into this course with the obvious idea that I will be reading many books, but I never thought it’d be this much. I think what I anticipated to have accomplished from this course has been done. That […]
From the start of the book of “Faces in the Crowd,” I thought I was going to emphasize with the narrator who is a mom to two children and has a husband. It seemed to be that she was struggling raising her kid, her depression during and after pregnancy, while being in a marriage that […]
“Death with Interruptions” by José Saramago is the kind of fiction book I enjoy. I’m typically not a fiction lover, but I think the amount of philosophy and political aspects in this book makes me so curious that I somehow remain focused on the book. Even when it takes a while for a reader to […]
I absolutely DESPISED this book, “Money to Burn” by Ricardo Piglia. It was a difficult read with the characters being all over the place with their odd descriptions. Needless to say this book had more action and crime than the other books, although the amount of vulgar words was insane. The next time I force […]
THEY DON’T NEED THERAPY, THEY NEED JAIL TIME. Warning: This book is so utterly explicit that my blog will have to be, so I am sorry if this is a bit much. I’m 100% sure this relationship is simply sexual. Maybe I’m just a little conservative, but there is simply no excuse to make one […]
“The Hour of the Star” is written by Brazilian author Clarice Lispector. First of all, I love Clarice Lispector’s way of having a male be the narrator- that being Rodrigo, rather than it being herself. Lispector’s thinking and reasoning for every small detail from the title to the philosophy all over the book fascinated me […]
Yet again another woman with a troubling life, by the social circumstances given by the men in her life. A book called “The Time of the Doves” by Mercè Rodoreda. The main character, Natalia starts off by working at a pastry shop and is persuaded by her friend Julieta to go to an event. That […]
“Nada” by Carmen Laforet had me questioning if this was the craziest, yet oddly realistic, family I have ever read about. Aside from all the comments about the women in the book acting like animals, from the grandmother or men, I still could not understand why Andrea bothered to stay so long in this family […]
“The Shrouded Woman” by María Luisa Bombal, follows a woman named Ana-Maria takes over the book with how she is the symbol of femininity and, in today’s world, is pleasing to the “male gaze.” It definitely may not be intentional, but she does end up being a vocation for three men. As seen in this […]
Dr. Jon Beasley starts the video lecture about how this book is neither an autobiography nor a novel. So going into Nadja, I wasn’t expecting much because I thought it’d be a boring book. However, the twists and turns of this story between Nadja and Breton had so much ‘madness,’ to say the least. There […]
