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Another book, another terrible love interest. Can we talk about how everyone in this narrator’s life is simply awful? To begin with, she’s fifteen and a half when she meets and begins a sexual relationship with a twenty-seven-year-old man. When her mother discovers that she’s been skipping school so he can pick her up in […] read full post >>

Just finished reading The Lover by Marguerite Duras, I feel so tired. It is like emotionally exhausted. The story line seems like she just writes things when she thinks about it. First of all, I really like how she sees her ravaged face as the on... read full post >>

Just finished reading The Lover by Marguerite Duras, I feel so tired. It is like emotionally exhausted. The story line seems like she just writes things when she thinks about it. First of all, I really like how she sees her ravaged face as the on... read full post >>

 This book sent a mix of emotions while I was reading it. Although it wasn’t exactly portrayed in the book, the age different between the characters… like can we talk about it? The lover, of whom we don’t even know his name, is in his mid-twenties... read full post >>

 This book sent a mix of emotions while I was reading it. Although it wasn’t exactly portrayed in the book, the age different between the characters… like can we talk about it? The lover, of whom we don’t even know his name, is in his mid-twenties... read full post >>

Right from the beginning there is a sense of going back in time, of flipping through the images of the past so as to arrive at some point in time where a certain revelatory experience unfolds from the ordinary narrative of human life, and some distant ... read full post >>

Transposing Duras' style to explore my narratives. read full post >>

Howdy partner, Soooo, this book was a little humbling, definitely unlike anything I’ve read before. The best word i have to explain how this book made me feel is almost as if it was gaslighting me. In some way it made me think and read as the protagonist, taking me on this endless search for […] read full post >>

mar 1, 2026 The hour of the star was way different from the other books I have read in this course, particularly how the book was narrated as well as the plot. There were many parts where I was confused and had to reread, and also I was initially very disappointed in the ending when […] read full post >>

It almost felt like I was reading two stories in one within this book, one of them being about Macabea’s life and the other about the narrator’s constant anxiety about writing this. read full post >>

Hi blog!! Hope we are all surviving midterm season o7 This week, the reading was If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. It was tough picking between Calvino and Lispector, because on one side, I read Calvino’s The Cloven Viscount in high school and thought it was super cool, but on the […] read full post >>

I felt like a lot happened and did not happen in this book at the same time. Or maybe it felt that way because the imagined narrator kept interrupting his story to talk about philosophical musings, his fears about writing, and so many conflicting feelings. Funnily enough, I quite enjoyed his ramblings even when it […] read full post >>

I don’t really know what I was expecting with this book but it was absolutely not this. At first I was totally confused about what was going on and if the chapter one of the book was even part of the book but once I got through a few of them I kind of figured […] read full post >>

Wow, reading this was different from anything I had experienced before! I don’t think I’ve ever been so directly addressed in a book (except maybe in rambly chapters written by third graders on Wattpad a decade ago (ᵕ—ᴗ—)) and while it was slightly disorienting at first, it also felt thrilling. It made me get invested […] read full post >>

I think this is my favourite book we’ve read so far this semester. I felt very present, in the moment, and aware of myself in a way that made me want to find the joy in smaller moments this week. Calvino discussed reading and life in general in a way that emphasized romanticizing the experience […] read full post >>