Concluding Thoughts

RMST was a great course that really pushed me to read new things and explore new ideas throughout the semester. If I’m being completely honest, I was a little skeptical going into the course. I haven’t taken many literature classes during my degree and…

Concluding Thoughts

RMST was a great course that really pushed me to read new things and explore new ideas throughout the semester. If I’m being completely honest, I was a little skeptical going into the course. I haven’t taken many literature classes during my degree and…

Faces in the Crowd

“Faces in the Crowd” was not the quick and fun read I was hoping for during finals. It was a messy, convoluted and oft infuriating exercise in patience that felt a little like reading the film Inception. The book centres around the story of a woman liv…

Barista Fever Dream – Faces in the Crowd

This week’s novel was definitely not my favorite book but I certainly appreciate it the complexity and often infuriating depth it had. While the notion of having novels within novels was very interesting and I thought would make a very good book, I rea…

The Book of Chameleons

    The book of chameleons was definitely one of my favourite books that we have read this term. It was a fairly quick read, and was very quirky and really kept me interested which is often challenging for books that I have read in the p…

The Book of Chameleons

    The book of chameleons was one of the most bizarre books that we have read this term. It was a quickish read but was extremely confusing and I still don’t think I really understand the full extent of the novel. The story centres around an…

Money To Burn – Ricardo Piglia

This book was a really great read, and gave some really good insight into what the 1960s were like in Argentina and Uruguay. One of the main draws of the novel is the bizarre writing style by the author which claims to use true facts and references to …

Money To Burn – Ricardo Piglia

This book was a really great read, and gave some really good insight into what the 1960s were like in Argentina and Uruguay. One of the main draws of the novel is the bizarre writing style by the author which claims to use true facts and references to …

The Trenchcoat

This book was really cool but also very bizarre and certainly very thought provoking. It was very hard to read and really made me constantly confused, though I still enjoyed it in the end. The author isn’t the best, and the writing style was often hard…

The Trenchcoat

This book was really cool but also very bizarre and certainly very thought provoking. It was very hard to read and really made me constantly confused, though I still enjoyed it in the end. The author isn’t the best, and the writing style was often hard…