Hi Guys! I enjoyed this week’s reading and as we are reading more and more books in this class I feel like it’s becoming easier to read literature. However, I still found this book somewhat difficult to read. I feel like there were a lot of references to Church names, cultural concepts, and traditions which […]
I think Nada was an interesting read and surprisingly I actually enjoyed reading it. The book starts off with Andrea arriving in Barcelona with a lot of hope in the middle of the night, which is later than her relatives had expected her to come. However, this hope and the positive feeling about her future […]
My initial reaction to the book was that I actually find the concept of her being deceased quite fascinating. I know that sounds odd but what I mean is that we often wonder what happens when we die. Is there an afterlife? Is God actually real, is heaven or hell real? Therefore, reading from a […]
Nadja by Breton was definitely interesting and different to read. It reminded me a lot of Proust and I felt like the difficulty of reading it was similar to Proust. This is because both the books were difficult to read and keep up with and they both were quite different from the form of writing […]
Hi Everyone! For this week’s reading I will be making a blog post on Proust’s Swann’s Way. To be completely honest, I have only read the first fifteen pages so far and I keep putting it off because of the difficulty. I have stopped reading and had to come back to it several times. I […]
Hi everyone! My name is Diljot and I’m currently in my fourth year majoring in Political Science. I’m from Surrey where I was born and raised therefore, I commute to UBC. On my way, I love to read romance books such as Picking Daisy’s on Sundays and Unhoneymooners. This past summer I started my own […]
