Side note: in my post about Proust I jokingly mentioned that a family tree would be useful for keeping track of all the different characters. This week, I decided to make my own (see cover image). Let me know if there’s anyone I missed or if you’d do it a different way! I’m a […]
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Trigger warning: suicide and attempted suicide Song of the week: mother, i’m sorry – Kamal. This book was a real pleasure to read, especially after Combray. I loved the humour throughout it, as well as the narrator’s descriptions of the different settings that gave me a vivid image of the scenes as they were playing out. […]
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Song of the week: Les Champs-Élysées – Joe Dassin Where do I begin? This was a difficult read, not just because it was our first book of the semester, but also due to Proust’s looooong sentences. I really wanted to like this book, and maybe I would have if I had read the entire thing […]
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Hi everyone, it is so nice to meet you all! My name is Kim, I’m a third-year psychology major and here’s an interesting fact for you: humans have a tendency to prefer objects/things that are positioned on the right, even when the objects are identical! Remember that next time you’re in the produce section trying […]
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