Oi blog!! Hope this past week was good :)) This week, I had the pleasure of reading The Book of Chameleons. When I first picked this book from the syllabus, a small part of my mind started the debate of “should I read this book in English or in Portuguese??” While you may think my answer […]
Hi blog!! Last week was my week off from reading for this class, and it was both weird and relaxing. Weird because I got used to reading a whole book every weekend, and relaxing because I had 3 midterms the week before and my Latin 301 midterm last Friday, so my brain desperately needed the […]
Hi blog!! Hope we are all surviving midterm season o7 This week, the reading was If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. It was tough picking between Calvino and Lispector, because on one side, I read Calvino’s The Cloven Viscount in high school and thought it was super cool, but on the […]
Hi there blog!! Hope the reading break went well :DD Rodoreda’s The Time of the Doves provided me with a very convoluted(? I can’t think of a better word) reading experience. if its sunday at 11pm and you are reading this come back tmr, the picture i am trying to input into this page keeps […]
Hellooo once again blog :)) (please know I went a medium bit above the word limit, so this is a longer one, sorry not sorry) This week’s read was Agostino by Alberto Moravia, and I can openly admit I went into this book with the wrong expectations. When I read the blurb in the “choose your […]
Hi blog!! Bombal’s Shrouded Woman made me feel like I was back at home, being made to watch the evening novelas (the Portuguese word for telenovelas) when my grandma visited our house. What an experience!! I need to start off by saying that the point of view from which we read this book is genuinely […]
Hi again blog :)) Thank the heavens this week the reading had normal lenght sentences (looking at you, Combray). I absolutely adored reading Mad Toy. The pacing of the story was amazing, and I really felt as if I was looking at snapshots of Silvio’s life. I thought I would feel the gaps in the […]
Hello again blog :)) So….. Combray huh….. When I read the part of the introduction that says Proust’s texts are known to be complex because of his “famously long sentences”, I braced myself for a text full of sentences that an English teacher would be disappointed at. But reading this book and seeing one sentence […]
