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Girl Takes RMST Class and Falls in Love With Literature Again !!- “Last RMST Blog Post” by Maxene Uy

And with this blog post I bid a tearful goodbye! This is a class I genuinely fell so so in love with. I loved taking time out of my very busy day to sit down and read. What I find adorable is that my first blog post was so proper but if you read my …

Posted in Blogs, Conclusion | Tagged with I have no finals (?), Last week of class, literature, romance languages, We're done bitches

This one’s for Rachel- “My Brilliant Friend” by Ferrante

This one reminded me of my best friend Rachel. (warning: this is a trauma dump) In “My Brilliant Friend”‘, Ferrante illustrates class, gender and language through the friendship of two little girls as we progress to see them turn into adolescent women. Since Jon had already discussed the societal problems in this book, I would …

Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with Best friends, class, coming of age, gender, girlhood, language

Death, they could never make me hate you- “Death with Interruption” by Saramago

I really wish that this book was just the latter part…. but fine… I guess its okay. Death with Interruptions deals with the very philosophical point of what would happen if we all stopped dying. I liked the start a lot, the middle was okay but I WAS EATING UP THE END (Gen Z terms). …

Posted in Blogs, Saramago | Tagged with cute little death, death, ethics, forbidden love, necropolitics, politics, romance, society

Why is everyone taking it up the arse? – Money to burn by Piglia

No genuinely why is everyone, man or woman taking it up the ass. Money to Burn by Piglia is a book that I honestly did not like until they got to the shoot out/ when they were stuck in flat number 9. Then the book became clear to me about what it was attempting to …

Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with crime, Deviance, Justice, Law, money, Outlaws, sexuality, society, violence

Duras you freaky gal (I’m still uncomfortable)- “The Lover” by Duras

Jon actually approached me at the start of the last class as I was reading this book. He asked me how I felt about it and honestly I did not have an answer for him. I kept flip flopping between who genuinely was the problem in this book and I think that’s what Duras wanted. …

Posted in Blogs, Duras | Tagged with addiction, class, coming of age, family, family dynamics, gender, girlhood, I hate men, pedophile, poverty, race, sexuality, youth

Another Sad Poor Woman and Awful Man to Add to this Class (Explosion)- “The Hour of the Star” By Clarice Lispector

“The Hour of the Star,” to use “Gen Z” terms is a book full of “yapping” but in my opinion good and insightful yapping. With a book of many titles Lispector gives a very unique experience to the reader as she writes about an author writing about a girl, named half way through the book, …

Posted in Blogs, Lispector | Tagged with class, coming of age, Conflict, Consumerism, I hate men, poverty, Suffering, tragedy, Womanhood

Definition of Suffering- “Time of the Doves” -Rodoreda

After reading “Time of the Doves” by Rodoreda I genuinely believe this book is the definition of suffering. In “Time of the Doves” we follow our protagonist Natalia as she goes through the Spanish Civil War and face major losses. This book had me feeling bad for Natalia through and through. I have never seen …

Posted in Blogs, Rodoreda | Tagged with Catalan, despair, family, life, motherhood, prose, war, Womanhood

Childhood in an evolving world- “Black Shack Alley” by Zobel

Black shack alley by Zobel is like any other coming of age novel but, it is in a “post colonial” evolving world. I didn’t like Black Shack Alley as much as the rest of the books we’ve read so far but I believe that is fully just because of my taste in books, not at …

Posted in Blogs, Zobel | Tagged with childhood, Colonialism, coming of age, education, fanily, memory, post colonialism, race

A House of Madness (20th century Kardashians)- “Nada” by Carmen Laforet

Nada, a book of madness, trauma and grotesqueness that encase its pages. Nada was a book full of drama, conflict and messiness from all characters. Like Bombal’s novel I found it so hard to like anyone, when I started to like someone or feel sorry for them I would quickly realize that they sucked as …

Posted in Blogs, Laforet | Tagged with coming of age, Conflict, Drama, family, gender, Spain, Suffering, war

Is Ana Maria the problem?- The Shrouded Woman by Bombal

Boy this read was a dramatic one but one I did enjoy even if I got quite confused. Despite my confusion due to the back and forth between many characters in Ana Maria’s life I found this book profoundly deep, seeing glimpses of her life through the interactions she has with other people. I believe …

Posted in Blogs, Bombal | Tagged with class, Drama, family, gender, romance, Scandal

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