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Ava Myall-Rose

Ava Myall-Rose

RIP Macabea, you will not be missed in the slightest

You know, I really didn’t think there would be a book that I hated just about as much as Proust, yet here we are. Oh my god the way I almost gave up on this whole book within the first 10 pages needs to be studied because what even. I get that it’a through a […]

Posted in Blogs, Lispector | Tagged with The hour of the star

Natalia – I promise divorce is legal now… I guess you don’t really need it anymore but still

This was such an interesting story, including the writing style. Sentence after sentence was started with ‘and’ even when the sentences use it as a conjunction: “And I stuck up for Quimet’s mother and said yes, she had put salt in the food. And the neighbour said if she ate food that was too salty…” […]

Posted in Blogs, Rodoreda | Tagged with Time of the Doves, war

Man, it really was those goddamn meddling kids – Black Shack Alley

I have to say, I really did like the writing style, it was the only thing that got me through most of it because the length (Last minute reading) was kind of intimidating. While there were a lot of things I loved about this story, I also realized that books ragebait me way too easily […]

Posted in Blogs, Zobel | Tagged with black shack alley, classism, education, poverty, race, slavery

Nada – the exact amount of resolution it felt like we got :(

I actually quite liked this one despite how long it was. Though I can’t tell how much of the writing style is Laforet and how much is the translation, it’s by far my favourite so far (though the bar is low). I’m starting to think it may not be the texts that are the issue […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Uncategorized

“Hey Alexa, play the Ghostbusters theme song”

To give credit where credit is due that was at least more readable than the previous texts. That being said, I need someone to draw up a family tree of all of the names that popped up because goddamn was that a lot. I admittedly confused the names of Antonio and Alberto at one point, […]

Posted in Blogs, Bombal | Tagged with death, Divorce Babes, ESH, memory, reflection

Andre, hun, with all the love in the world, have you considered therapy?

I really thought that after Proust, the texts would get significantly more comprehensible. Wrong. I can’t even articulate my thoughts through the entire beginning of the text on here because it includes so much profanity. It’s entirely possible that I’m missing something because where does the whole play from the start come into relevance? I […]

Posted in Blogs, Breton | Tagged with chaos, Insanity, madness, nadja

Proust…. I think?

Let me just start off by saying that that was not even remotely what I expected. This felt like a fever dream, I have reread sections and still don’t totally know what the point of some of that was. It felt like it was flitting back and forth between things, or going on tangents, and […]

Posted in Blogs, Proust | Tagged with combray, memory, nostalgia, time

Introduction!

Hello! I’m Ava. I’m a second year psychology student and have absolutely no idea what I would like to do with that degree! (I’m living in denial of having to figure it out). I’m currently taking five courses alongside work, so I’m admittedly hoping this course has some ebbs and flows to the work level. […]

Posted in Blogs, Introduction | Tagged with blog

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