We did it! We reached the last week of the semester and completed our assigned books! I learned a lot about how I read, what kind of reader I am, and what books I enjoy and don’t enjoy. This is my second romance studies class; I took 201 in the first s…
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We did it! We reached the last week of the semester and completed our assigned books! I learned a lot about how I read, what kind of reader I am, and what books I enjoy and don’t enjoy. This is my second romance studies class; I took 201 in the first s…
Posted in Blogs, Conclusion | Tagged with blog posts, disliked, enjoyed, liked, reading, understanding
Hi, fellow readers,This is the last obligatory book we must read, and we are almost at the end of this term! We were to read “Money to Burn” by Ricardo Piglia this week. I was not expecting this book to be as disturbing as it was. This is the mos…
Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with confusing, disturbing, Drugs, Gaucho, issues, killing, reader, Sex-obsessed
Hi, fellow readers,This is the last obligatory book we must read, and we are almost at the end of this term! We were to read “Money to Burn” by Ricardo Piglia this week. I was not expecting this book to be as disturbing as it was. This is the mos…
Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with confusing, disturbing, Drugs, Gaucho, issues, killing, reader, Sex-obsessed
Hi everyone! I enjoyed reading Marguerite Duras’s autobiography The Lover but was shocked and skeptical. This story starts when her whole family is together, but then her father dies, leaving her family without any incoming income, so they go to …
Posted in Blogs, Duras | Tagged with autobiography, Degrading, experience, Fantasizing, feelings, lover, saigon
Hi everyone! I enjoyed reading Marguerite Duras’s autobiography The Lover but was shocked and skeptical. This story starts when her whole family is together, but then her father dies, leaving her family without any incoming income, so they go to …
Posted in Blogs, Duras | Tagged with autobiography, Degrading, experience, Fantasizing, feelings, lover, saigon
Hi, Everyone. I hope you are all doing well. When I started this novel, I thought it would be just an ordinary story. As I started reading it, I thought it might be about this man who gets on a train on a winter’s night and stops at places w…
Posted in Blogs, Calvino | Tagged with captivating, confusing, destroyed books, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Lortaria, Ludmilla, Morana, pattern, reader
Hi, Everyone. I hope you are all doing well. When I started this novel, I thought it would be just an ordinary story. As I started reading it, I thought it might be about this man who gets on a train on a winter’s night and stops at places w…
Posted in Blogs, Calvino | Tagged with captivating, confusing, destroyed books, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Lortaria, Ludmilla, Morana, pattern, reader
Hi everyone! I hope you all have been having a relaxing reading break! I enjoyed this novel the best out of the ones we have read so far. In my blog post, I will briefly summarize how Natalia goes through the five stages of grief and what I …
Posted in Blogs, Rodoreda | Tagged with children, doves, female-perspective, grief, Natalia, war
Hi everyone! I hope you all have been having a relaxing reading break! I enjoyed this novel the best out of the ones we have read so far. In my blog post, I will briefly summarize how Natalia goes through the five stages of grief and what I …
Posted in Blogs, Rodoreda | Tagged with children, doves, female-perspective, grief, Natalia, war