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“I can no longer read properly” (118) I feel like this class has changed the way I read. I am not sure how, but I definitely think if you had handed me this book a few months ago, I may have just given up. So, perhaps our professor was correct in his presumption that the […] read full post >>

“Faces in the Crowd” was not the quick and fun read I was hoping for during finals. It was a messy, convoluted and oft infuriating exercise in patience that felt a little like reading the film Inception. The book centres around the story of a woman liv... read full post >>

This week's novel was definitely not my favorite book but I certainly appreciate it the complexity and often infuriating depth it had. While the notion of having novels within novels was very interesting and I thought would make a very good book, I rea... read full post >>

Hello everybody- the book this week was Luiselli’s “Faces in a crowd”, which I don’t even really know how to describe the plot…think ghosts but not really, a wife with a husband and 2 children but not really, and a girl working in a publishing firm as a translator that’s a bit obsessed with this […] read full post >>

Faces in the Crowd, is the final novel I read for this course and luckily I got to end this semester on a good note. This novel was very interesting to read, to dissect, and to explore. The narrative was fractioned in a rigid fashion which keeps the reader attentive and on their toes in a […] read full post >>

‘My Brilliant Friend” by Elena Ferrante was by far my favourite book of the semester. Why? Because it was well written, intense, and most of all, relatable. The story follows two girls from childhood through adolescence, Elena and Lila, who are two unlikely friends that have an intense, competitive, and tough friendship due to their […] read full post >>

I hoped that this weeks book would follow the general trend of the books leading up to it, that it would be more modern and thus easier to grasp. There’s also another way I could look at it, that each book was getting “easier” because I was getting better at reading. I think this weeks … Continue reading Thoughts on Faces in the Crowd read full post >>

Hi everyone! Welcome back to our final week of reading! To end us off, I decided to read ‘Faces in the Crowd’ by Valeria Luiselli. Unfortunately, I can’t necessarily say that I loved this book, which is too bad because I was really hoping to end on a fun note. However, I still found parts […] read full post >>

  Hi Everyone! Many of the novels we have read so far have been confusing for me in the beginning, but then make sense as I get further along in the book. There had always been a point that I begin to understand what exactly is going on.... read full post >>

  Hi Everyone! Many of the novels we have read so far have been confusing for me in the beginning, but then make sense as I get further along in the book. There had always been a point that I begin to understand what exactly is going on.... read full post >>