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Last Blog

Welcome back guys for the final blog! Oh my god, the last blog!! I cannot believe this is the last time I will be sitting on my desk and writing a blog for the class. This time, though it is a little different, considering I don’t have to write one on a book. But honestly […]

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Faces in the Crowd

Hello everyone. Welcome to the last book of this class. This week’s book was Faces in the Crowd, by Valeria Luiselli. This was, without a doubt, the most difficult book I read in this course. I honestly did not like it so much, but I got through it. In Mexico City, an unnamed narrator, stifled […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with death, identity, memories, RMST 202 Week 12

Death With Interruptions

Hello everyone. Welcome back to this week’s book. This week we delved into José Saramago’s Death With Interruptions. The impression I had of this book before I read it completely changed after I finished reading the book. The outlook death had in this book was completely different from all the other books we have read […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with death, RMST 202 Week 11, society

Money to Burn

Hello everyone. Welcome back to this week’s book. This week we delved into Ricardo Piglia’s Money to Burn. It’s safe to say this was definitely my least favourite book. The jump from reading books about childhood, romance, and death, to violence was weird, but honestly the change was good.  The story has several main characters […]

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Money to Burn

Hello everyone. Welcome back to this week’s book. This week we delved into Ricardo Piglia’s Money to Burn. It’s safe to say this was definitely my least favourite book. The jump from reading books about childhood, romance, and death, to violence was weird, but honestly the change was good. This novel tells the story of […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with money, RMST 202 Week 10, robbers, society

The Lover

Hello everyone, and welcome back to this week’s book. This week we read another book written by a female author, The Lover, by Marguerite Duras. This book was a lot more different than how I thought it was going to be. It is a story about a young girl who has an affair with an […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with age gap, love, RMST 202 Week 9, young

The Hour of the Star

Welcome back to this week’s book, The Hour of the Star. I had mentioned in my first blog post that I was most excited to read this book, and I genuinely did enjoy this book and it is one of my favourites till now. This book is written by Clarice Lispector, and it revolves around […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with death, narrator, poor, RMST 202 Week 8

The Time of the Doves

Welcome back to this week’s book, The Time of the Doves, written by Merce Rodoreda. This story tells the story of a young woman who was first engaged to Pere. It also shows how her life changed when she accepted a man named Quimet’s invitation to dance at the Placa Del Diamant and was informed […]

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Deep Rivers

Hello! This week’s book is called Deep Rivers and it is written by José María Arguedas. The story is narrated by Ernesto, a young child of mixed blood (both indigenous and white), who is taken to a Catholic boarding school. Ernesto’s coming-of-age experience is chronicled in the book as he struggles with his identity and […]

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Agostino

Welcome back everyone! This week’s book is Agostino, written by Alberto Moravia. This is one of my most liked books, mainly because the story line captures the essence of the boy’s feelings. Another thing that struck me was the connection between this book, and The Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust, because of the resemblance of […]

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