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At the beginning, I was worried and a bit lost. Because this is a literature course! And those books were not easy to understand. Just seemed overwhelming. To be honest, when I think about our course now, I still remember what I read, Proust’s Com... read full post >>

The Broken Column, 1944 by Frida Kahlo For Ramla, I feel so angry about Alhadji Boubakari, threatening her with a letter of repudiation to her mother. Ok, evil and low. Why did he pick Dadiyel, her mother, as his hostage? Cuz he knew that she is Ramla... read full post >>

I believe that Love me Tender by Debré is a novel underscoring a woman’s desire for authenticity at the expense of the loss and dissatisfaction involved in this desire. It exposes the beauty of pursuing one’s own course of life … Continue r... read full post >>

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I think one of the best things about taking this course was the flexibility. I allowed myself to be challenged and most importantly, I read so many novels. Personally, I have long grown distant to reading, ever since English in high school. I will say some weeks got difficult but having read the number of […] read full post >>

Et puis il n'avait plus su quoi lui dire. Et puis il le lui avait dit. Il lui avait dit que c'était comme avant, qu'il l'aimait encore, qu'il ne pourrait jamais cesser de l'aimer, qu'il l'aimerait jus read full post >>

I actually quite liked this novel and I think it has a lot of things to unpack! For some reason, it was one of the reads that really got me comfy (I’m talking about a cup of tea, snuggled into bed, the whole combo). Gradually over the course, I think I made time to read […] read full post >>

“I realized I’d finished grieving for my son. I said to myself, That’s it now, the grieving’s over. I felt good. I hadn’t felt that good in years.” (164) “There was nothing left to say. Nothing left to do.” (165) This was a very touching read. It was so simple and easy to digest. As […] read full post >>

To me, this book is a story about a woman being denied love, who then shuts off and denies herself any love and life. read full post >>

 There is kind of a lot to unpack here. First, her as solely a mother and then her role in society. Because I kind of understand wanting to re-start her life and live it how she wants to, which makes sense (kind of). But like she has a child which... read full post >>

 There is kind of a lot to unpack here. First, her as solely a mother and then her role in society. Because I kind of understand wanting to re-start her life and live it how she wants to, which makes sense (kind of). But like she has a child which... read full post >>

Among the three girls, Ramla’s story was the most interesting one to me. The relationship between she and her father made me think of the relationship between Lila and Lila’s father in In My Brilliant Friend.  The blog will discuss the role of family in Impatient, exploring how does it appear as caring and as […] read full post >>

This story is honestly more along the lines of what I was expecting based on the title than some of the others. It was also rather relatable in some ways, regarding trying to balance work, life, family, and more. The young mother tries to balance her role as an author with her own parenting obligation, […] read full post >>

Faces In The Crowd feels like the epiphany of the term: “a little bit of this, a little bit of that”. It’s harder for me to get into stories that aren’t linear, maybe im just not sophisticated enough but I just enjoy the simplicity and relaxation of my direct story telling, it felt like the […] read full post >>

Honestly, at the beginning of Faces in the Crowd, I felt a bit confused. The narrative didn’t follow a clear, linear structure, and the shifts between time, space, and perspective made me hard to figure out what is “really happening.” However, as I kept reading, I realized that this confusion is not a meaningless, but […] read full post >>