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“Faces in the Crowd” by Valeria Luiselli was definitely a difficult book to follow because of the narratives that uniquely intertwine with each other through different time, space, and vagueness between reality and fiction. This narrative structure deviated from providing a straightforward plot and offered an experience where readers are piecing together various fragments of […] read full post >>

Faces in the crowd by   . I don’t even know yet.. I wouldn’t say it wasn’t an enjoyable novel but it was very hard to read, or to understand. It was fine during the first part, when the narrator was describing about her life in New York city, all the interesting characters and young […] read full post >>

This week’s last and final reading of choice is My Brilliant Friend by Ferrante. This is also the first physical copy of a book I have in this class, and what I have to say is that it’s easier to indulge into a book when you have the actual copy in your hands. With that […] read full post >>

Hey everyone! First of all, I literally cant believe we’re almost done and this is our last book. In a way it feels like it has been so long and challenging but the fact we have read SO MANY BOOKS in such a short time is crazy to me. Personally, I had to really dedicate […] read full post >>

The book that I chose to read this week was “My Brilliant Friend” by Elena Ferrante. I think I chose this book in the beginning of the semester because it sounded familiar and now I know why – there’s a TV Show adaptation on Crave! Never watched it but now I might have to as […] read full post >>

 This week's read was “my Brilliant friend” by Elena Ferrante. I was quite excited for this book since last week, Dr. Beasley had mentioned it was his favourite of the semesters novels. Now, the first thing that jumped out at me when reading is ho... read full post >>

 This week's read was “my Brilliant friend” by Elena Ferrante. I was quite excited for this book since last week, Dr. Beasley had mentioned it was his favourite of the semesters novels. Now, the first thing that jumped out at me when reading is ho... read full post >>

I really liked how this final novel seemed to link back to Marcel Proust’s novel (our very first book in the course) with the mechanism of using a train/subway to represent motion wether in time for Proust or in different stories for Luiselli’s novella. I think its interesting the emphasis on the subway being below […] read full post >>

Hi everyone, this week I read “Faces in the Crowd” by Valeria Luiselli for my final book of the course. This book might be my least favourite this semester. That’s not to say I hated it, but I missed a lot of what the story was trying to convey between... read full post >>

Hi everyone, this week I read “Faces in the Crowd” by Valeria Luiselli for my final book of the course. This book might be my least favourite this semester. That’s not to say I hated it, but I missed a lot of what the story was trying to convey between... read full post >>