Hello everyone, happy LWOC! Seeing that we’re essentially finished with this course, I can confidently say I am not one bit sad to be done, but it’s not because I didn’t enjoy this class. In fact, it was actually my favourite course of the semester and during the summer I plan on reading the texts […]
Happy Easter everyone????????✨ and happy last week of classes woop woop! I enjoyed this book as a final read as it had a good pace and it wasn’t confusing. Also I think this is the fastest I’ve read all semester and while I’d like to say this is because I’ve developed some amazing reading skills […]
Reading Faces in the Crowd was quite a mindf*ck at times and I now see why Jon described it as a ‘strange’ on the course website. I’d like to suggest that it also be described as a ‘comedy’ book because of the line: “shrimps are little-dicks” (28). Anyway, as we near the end of the semester, […]
I was not expecting to like Soldiers of Salamis as much as I did but I was pleasantly surprised. In all honesty, I don’t know much about the Spanish Civil War so I enjoyed that this book explained the political/social context of Spain in the 1930s, making it a little easier to understand. At times, I […]
Wowie, wowie, wowie! That’s what I’m thinking right now at approximately 21.45, and I’m also grinning like a mad woman because I really enjoyed this book! Despite the fact that I typically do not enjoy when the narration stays on the same topic for a long time, I was very enticed by this book. The […]
Thank you Marguerite Duras for this book but why did the protagonist have to be so young?? I get that she’s reflecting back on her life but a 15-year-old having an affair with a 27-year-old? Ewwwwwwww! I was just hoping for a somewhat normal relationship but I guess that’s too much to ask for. I […]
To be honest, I was so bored and annoyed reading the first half of this book, but once Olímpico broke up with Macabéa it became much more enjoyable. I don’t know how many more shitty men I can stand reading about because this guy really ticked me off (but he’s somehow not the worst, in […]
To be honest, this was not what I was expecting from a book set during a war, but nonetheless, it was a pretty good read (it would’ve been better if Quimet died sooner and Rita didn’t marry Vicenç). Throughout the book, Natalia’s narration seems repetitive and confuses the reader, which represents the dizzying world she […]
In my opinion, Black Shack Alley was a great choice to read after Agostino. Both follow the story of a young boy, but the characters are opposites in many regards. Agostino came from a privileged upper-class community and never worked, whereas José was born into a marginalized, working class group. Agostino’s troubles were much more […]
Song of the week: Mother – John Lennon Ew! That’s what I thought before I had even finished the first page and also what I was thinking while reading the 100 pages that followed. Surprisingly, this book was quite interesting despite all the weirdness. The fact that the main character, Agostino, is only thirteen years […]
