I can’t believe this semester is (almost) over! I had such a great time reading and chatting about these books with everyone. I’ve never had the opportunity to read so many books from so many different countries in such a short amount of time, so it wa…
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I can’t believe this semester is (almost) over! I had such a great time reading and chatting about these books with everyone. I’ve never had the opportunity to read so many books from so many different countries in such a short amount of time, so it wa…
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I can’t believe this semester is (almost) over! I had such a great time reading and chatting about these books with everyone. I’ve never had the opportunity to read so many books from so many different countries in such a short amount of time, so it wa…
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This book was a bit of a shock to me. First I want to say I’m actually a fan of Luiselli. I’ve already read “Tell Me How it Ends” and “The Lost Children Archive” and loved them. However, this book was a big miss for me. I didn’t get what was goin…
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This book was a bit of a shock to me. First I want to say I’m actually a fan of Luiselli. I’ve already read “Tell Me How it Ends” and “The Lost Children Archive” and loved them. However, this book was a big miss for me. I didn’t get what was goin…
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I did not expect to love this novel as much as I did. I was so hooked from the beginning. Given that I criticized Piglia heavily last week on how dense the text was with such a lack of dialogue I thought I would be saying the same for Saramago, but thi…
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I did not expect to love this novel as much as I did. I was so hooked from the beginning. Given that I criticized Piglia heavily last week on how dense the text was with such a lack of dialogue I thought I would be saying the same for Saramago, but thi…
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Oh man, I did not like this book. Considering that I’ve been on board for every book so far, I guess statistically speaking there was bound to be at least one I didn’t like and this one was it. I found the writing difficult to follow, I didn’t feel mys…
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Oh man, I did not like this book. Considering that I’ve been on board for every book so far, I guess statistically speaking there was bound to be at least one I didn’t like and this one was it. I found the writing difficult to follow, I didn’t feel mys…
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I’m at a bit of a loss on what to write about this week. I didn’t particularly enjoy this novel very much, if I’m being honest it’s probably one of my least favourite reads of the term so far. I found it a bit confusing, I didn’t really get the point b…
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