I can’t believe I’m writing my final blog post already! It feels like not too long ago when we were just starting up and I was confused about how to start a blog. I want to thank Professor Jon and the TAs for being so enthusiastic and amazing at teaching this course! To answer the question from the lecture video,…
I think this is my favourite book of the entire term. The flow of the writing and the structure of the chapters and bigger sections made this a very easy read for me. I liked how descriptive Debre was, especially in talking about the characters. I think I said in one of my blogs that maybe I don’t like French…
I really enjoyed reading My Brilliant Friend, it felt like such an easy book to understand, especially compared some of the books we’ve been reading. I was a little worried when I was reading the character index in the beginning. It just kept going and going. But once I started reading, it all made sense. I liked how Ferrante would…
I think this is the first book that I’ve read where I genuinely I have no idea what happened. It’s like when you’re reading and you zone out and then you’re like ‘what did I just read?’ and you go back to read it again. That was me but with the entire book. Halfway through the book I was like…
I really enjoyed ‘Money to Burn’ and I was surprised when it said it was based on a true story in the epilogue. I’ve recently been rewatching Brooklyn 99 and this is definitely a story that Jake would’ve been obsessed with. It was a little confusing to read because it felt like there were so many characters and each character…
I just finished reading ‘The Lover’ and I think I’m realizing that I don’t like French books. They are all so wishy washy and dreamy and so hard to follow. I was so confused the whole time reading this book. It felt like the narrator’s stream of consciousness but everything was fragmented and we would go from talking about her…
I absolutely loved this book. I was captured immediately from the beginning and it was such a fun and enjoyable read. It felt like such a great escape from my life and it was like living in an alternate universe. At first I thought of the character ‘you’ as just that, a character. But the more I read, the more…
At first, I was quite unsure about this book and felt that it moved very slowly. But after I got halfway through, the plot began to move much faster and I was captivated by the story. Initially, I was upset that Colometa would leave her fiance, Pere, for some guy who said he wanted to dance with her. And I…
I found Deep Rivers to be a bit of a slow read. I liked how the Quechua language was incorporated into the book. The translations and explanations of the words really moved the story forward and although I found myself forgetting a lot of them and having to look back for their translations, I enjoyed learning something new. I was…
This book really kept me on my toes. Every time I would go to read it I had no idea what was going to happen next but at the same time I did. This was such a weird read and I can’t possibly imagine how the author came up with this story. Maybe he was on drugs. I think Agostino…
