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I really didn't like Quimet lol. He did not make a good impression on me. I sensed that he was bad news from the get-go, and poor Natalia ended up being swept off her feet by him. It hurt my soul. The nickname was cute at first, but it became annoying ... read full post >>

Reading this book was a pain. Natalia’s stream of consciousness was worse than Proust- I think I enjoyed proust better. I swear there was like 20 pages of her just describing the bourgeois family’s house. I know the tiny details contribute to the setting and placing the reader, but the book was the slowest 200 […] read full post >>

 Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage.First of all, I hope all of you had a restful reading break, and enjoyed reading The Time of the Doves. As per usual, I find myself sitting down to write a little before making it to the end of the novel... read full post >>

 Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage.First of all, I hope all of you had a restful reading break, and enjoyed reading The Time of the Doves. As per usual, I find myself sitting down to write a little before making it to the end of the novel... read full post >>

I really loved this read. read full post >>

I actually really liked The Time of the Doves, and it has probably been the easiest book for me to read so far. Not because it is light, because it definitely is not, but because the writing flows so naturally. It feels like someone is sitting across from you telling you their life story in […] read full post >>

War and poverty has sucked the life out of these people. Even Cintet “…said how sad he was that peaceful, happy people like us had gotten mixed up in a piece of history like that” (pg. 63). Even as Natalia goes about her life without the passionate revolutionary feelings that Quimet possesses, war impacts her […] read full post >>

I enjoyed reading The Times of the Dove and it felt super easy to read. Typically the literature we have read in this course so far seems difficult to an extent where it might be hard to understand what you are reading or what is going on. However, I did not feel that way with […] read full post >>

Time of the Doves follows the life of Natalia, an ordinary working-class woman in Barcelona whose personal story unfolds alongside the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath. The novel traces her journey from a passive young girl at a festival to her journey through motherhood and marriage, and finally to a widow struggling to survive […] read full post >>

I DON’T THINK I fully appreciated this novel. read full post >>

I really enjoyed reading Time of the Doves. It felt very mellow and was quite easy to read. The writing style managed to keep me engaged throughout the story. Overall, the novel was very emotional and the author did a fantastic job portraying the frustrating, helpless and suffocating emotion through her simple yet effective writing. […] read full post >>

I found The Time of the Doves interesting, and I liked Natalia’s narration throughout. I feel like I am slowly but surely overcoming my bias towards the first-person perspective. In fact, in this novel specifically, I believe that only the first person could have made me so infuriated about Quimet. In this blog post, I […] read full post >>

One of those novels that stays with you long after you finish reading it is “The Time of the Doves” by Mercè Rodoreda. The aspect that struck me the most about this novel is its personal nature, despite the fact that it is set during the Spanish Civil War, an event of huge proportions. The […] read full post >>

My takes from Time of the Doves by Rodoreda read full post >>

What stayed with me most while reading The Time of the Doves is how normal everything feels, even when it absolutely shouldn’t. In the setting of the book we can see there’s political chaos, war, hunger and lives are being torn apart, but Natalia moves through it all, noticing almost miniscule things like the tightness […] read full post >>