apr 4, 2026 Can’t believe we made it to the last post! I’m really bad at writing conclusions. We’ve discussed so many different topics throughout the entire course, from genre, themes, and character writing, to history, religion, and (a lot of) different kinds of oppression. Although my memory is really bad (I promise I did […]
Apr 4, 2026 Finally (unfortunately) we’ve reached the last book of this course. Despite some horrors I’ve read in the past few months I enjoyed experiencing the books, and what an honor to get the chance to feel all the ranges of human emotion through voices of characters from different places and times. I’m actually […]
Mar 22, 2026 Wow… this book really was a lot. Because of the pacing and it being a fairly short book with so much to unpack, it escalated from mystery to revenge in a split second, and it all went by real fast just like a dream. I felt like this was peak reader experience, […]
Mar 15, 2026 Finally a less depressing read from this course! …oh but the characters are evil and almost everybody dies in the end. Anyways I actually enjoyed reading this book a lot, minus the disgusting objectification of girls (can’t even call them women they were like 13-15 ewww) and the absurd amount of violence […]
mar 8, 2026 First of all why are all the books in this course highkey depressing… Before I read the book read the title The Lover and that Duras is a female French writer I thought maybe finally we have one that’s less depressing and would be an account of a woman falling in love. […]
mar 1, 2026 The hour of the star was way different from the other books I have read in this course, particularly how the book was narrated as well as the plot. There were many parts where I was confused and had to reread, and also I was initially very disappointed in the ending when […]
feb 22, 2026 I loved reading Time of the Doves. This book might be my favorite one so far, it was just beautiful. I loved it on a personal level, I related a lot to Natalia’s feelings while reading especially with my experience of growing up under political unrest and fleeing political prosecution to come […]
feb 8, 2026 Reading this book was really depressing compared to reading the previous books, even though it had simpler wording, the descriptions of the author’s childhood is very vivid and raw and the dread just goes on and on as we see how they live under discrimination and their family’s struggles. It took me […]
feb 1, 2026 If I were to sum up my reading experience on Agostino it would be these images: Even though I listened to the lecture video and the conversation video before reading the book, it could not prepare me for the contents I got hit with at 100km/h. I learnt from the videos that […]
jan 25, 2026 I have a lot of thoughts after reading Maria Luisa Bombal’s The Shrouded Woman. I really enjoyed reading this book. Not in the way that I felt good while reading, I felt really sad reading about the lives of the women in the book, but I relate to the narrator as a […]
