Hello everyone! I hope you’ve all had a great week because I sure have. As I write this post, I’m on day 12 of my Australian trip! Right now, I’m sitting on my hotel room bed in Surfer’s Paradise on the Gold Coast, but I want to recap my time spent in Brisbane. As someone […]
Hello friends! In the spirit of being on vacation, I had planned to read many romance books on the beach. During my search, I came across an Abby Jimenez book on Kindle Unlimited. I had heard the acclaim for Just for the Summer and absolutely loved Yours Truly when I read it a few weeks […]
Hello everyone! It has been a while, but I’m back better than ever, ready to review more books. As this started out as just a school project, I did not think I was going to miss writing down my thoughts on every book but I have. Normally, I don’t write reviews for the books I […]
It’s here! The last blog post of the semester! Thank you, dear reader, for reading all of my little blog posts. I hope you enjoyed my analysis and shared some similar thoughts, or thought differently about sections after reading my thoughts. I am honestly going to miss this blog, it was very fun to design […]
Welcome to the last book review of the semester! This week I read My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, and I am so happy this was the last book. It is a coming-of-age book (so on brand for this class) about two girls in a poor neighbourhood in Naples. The story starts with an older […]
showing how fragile our system is. One thing goes awry, and everything comes toppling down. Albeit, no one dying anymore is not something we could have planned for, but it is something the government and people now have to figure out. Saramago questions our societal systems by exploring their improbability. As you may have guessed, […]
Hello everyone and welcome back! This week’s novel had the exciting premise of a bank robbery gone wrong (ooooh ahhhh). Ricardo Piglia’s factual/fictional retelling of a bank robbery in Buenos Aires, Money to Burn started off so strong. I enjoyed the action-packed narrative interspersed with the backstories of the different characters. As the novel progressed, […]
By far the shortest and most uncomfortable read at this point in the semester, The Lover by Marguerite Duras is a novel about the clandestine relationship between a 27-year-old man and a 15-year-old girl. The prose in this book is beautifully written, as an autobiography with Duras recalling her time in Saigon. She captures the […]
Hello everyone! Hopefully, you all had a great reading week and enjoyed reading The Time of the Doves by Mercè Rodoreda. This novel is a story full of emotion and hurt detailing the protagonist Natalia’s life through the Spanish civil war. The novel is written in a way that folds the emotion into the words […]
