This term has gone by so fast for me but it has easily been my favourite one out of 3 years at UBC. This course certainly added to the experience. I loved the super flexible structure that it had with being able to choose your own adventure through so many interesting books. The once a […]
I really enjoyed this novel and am happy to end off the course with a good read! Despite the book being often quite sad and oppressive, it kept me intrigued the whole time and was very readable. I was especially interested in how it gave insight into the inner-workings of a Cameroonian Muslim society with […]
I was looking forwards to reading this book and it did not let me down! Although it was a bit longer than the other books, it had me really invested in it for almost all of it. I liked it right from the start when it lays out all of the characters in the narrator […]
I read this week’s book before watching the lecture video and I had the strongest feeling that the drinks pairing was going to be coffee. If I had actually paired the drink it may have helped me enjoy it more and stay awake while reading it lol. Although pretty readable I found this book to […]
I found Piglia’s book this week to be very entertaining and thought provoking, being one of the books that felt much easier to follow. It is one of very few of the books that I have read for this course that follows a somewhat “normal” structure/genre, being a true crime novel. I think the fact […]
This book by Duras marked a visit to another completely different part of the world than those that I have already visited through the books that I have chosen, as it takes place in the colony of French Indochina, a part of current day Vietnam. I truly did not expect this course’s texts to take […]
I don’t really know what I was expecting with this book but it was absolutely not this. At first I was totally confused about what was going on and if the chapter one of the book was even part of the book but once I got through a few of them I kind of figured […]
I enjoyed reading this week’s book by Merce Rodoreda thoroughly. The protagonist, Natalia is challenged constantly throughout this book right from the beginning when she is almost forcefully scooped up into a relationship with Quimet, who in my opinion is one of the most unpleasant characters as of yet, right behind Saro the paedo from […]
I enjoyed reading Black Shack Alley as I did not know much about the circumstances in the Caribbean islands during this period so it was a refreshing read. The grim living conditions of the Black Shack Alley are totally contrasted with Jose’s naivety in the beginning to what is going on around him and in […]
This short novel by Moravia I thoroughly enjoyed reading and is definitely my favorite reading thus far in the course. It is fascinating to see how quickly Agostino loses his innocence through his encounters with the gang of boys from Vespucci beach and is exposed to some of the harsher and darker realities of the […]
