I now realize that since the last book I read was “Love Me Tender” by Debre, I should’ve titled that blog post “Love Me Sweet” and then titled this conclusiatory one “Never Let Me Go”. But alas it is too late now. I digress. Regardless, I wasn’t sure how much I was going to like […]
To be completely honest, the title of this book absolutely made me go back and listen to the Elvis song by the same name. That was on loop during this book. But that’s a side tangent. In all honesty, at the start of this book I didn’t love the fact that it was in first […]
This story is honestly more along the lines of what I was expecting based on the title than some of the others. It was also rather relatable in some ways, regarding trying to balance work, life, family, and more. The young mother tries to balance her role as an author with her own parenting obligation, […]
I know this text wasn’t that long compared to some of the other texts, but somehow the writing style made it feel even shorter which I really appreciate. I also appreciate the lack of 50 billion names all being introduced at the same time, which I can’t say about Piglia. I will say, reading a […]
I actually loved the writing style of this book. It felt so much more readable despite this not being a super short text. The only exception to that was at the beginning when they were introducing a large number of characters, and not only were tossing around new names, but were also using a variety […]
With all the love and respect in the world, what did I just read? I would normally ask “will we never have a story that has just one ‘normal’ character?” but I also know that our class conversation would be “but what is normal?”… So I suppose I certainly have learned something, it just may […]
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 […]
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…” […]
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 […]
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 […]
