I really enjoyed this course! I got to read a lot of books that I had never heard of before and got to make it part of my weekly routine, one book a week, and write a small post about it. It felt good to know that the English reading muscle of mine hadn’t atrophied […]
“nothing to bog me down, a style inspired by emptiness, the only one for me” (29). This was the easiest novel for me to read in this course – I usually take several hours over multiple sessions but this one I did all in a couple hours. The prose is very matter of fact, short […]
“The subway, its multiple stops, its breakdowns, its sudden accelera- tions, its dark zones, could function as the space-time scheme for this other novel.” (58) This book is a difficult, obscure read. Even after going through it a few times to write this post, I still struggled with distinguishing who wrote which section Unlike some […]
After finishing this book, I felt the same that I did when finishing If on a winter’s night a traveler, the satisfying end to a meta-story and a long journey. It even ends with its own wink to itself: kust as how that book ends with the reader beginning to read the titular book, this ends […]
*post contains F and T-slurs I enjoyed this book a lot, it was a thrilling read from start to finish and I was always interested in what would happen next in the robbery and pursuit. I also enjoyed it as it being explicitly queer with the Kid and Dorda annd those elements caught my eye; […]
This short story left me very confused and disoriented, with not much to grasp onto and characters also losing it, like Ioana gesturing towards hidden conspiracies and death that had existed So it was relieving to know that the confusion and paranoia and gradual descent into madness is a feature, not a bug, of the […]
I enjoyed reading this book, I liked how deep it dove into Natalia’s psyche through the stream of consciousness writing. One image I kept circling back to, like in the novel, was from the title, the doves and the birds that keep reappearing. It always feels to me like Natalia is bound by something out […]
Reading “Deep Rivers” was a challenge for me, possibly the most difficult read so far. I still liked it a lot. But Ernesto was impenetrable to me; he didn’t fit into my preconceived notions of what a protagonist should be like or like. Especially compared to previous books in this course I read like the […]
I enjoyed reading Agostino, but it’s also a very uncomfortable experience for the reader. My impression that I got while reading: the novel is stopping before anything truly happens in a deliberately unsatisfying way while hinting towards repulsive content. Despite the novella having so many scenes alluding to sexual encounters, I don’t think the word […]
