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Wowie, wowie, wowie! That’s what I’m thinking right now at approximately 21.45, and I’m also grinning like a mad woman because I really enjoyed this book! Despite the fact that I typically do not enjoy when the narration stays on the same topic for a long time, I was very enticed by this book. The […] read full post >>

You’re searching for something unknown, and so you end up falling into despair. (p. 90) What if we were meant to live a different life than what others made us out to be? I felt this question appear in my head after this quote. This book began like it was written by Dostoyevsky- I mean, it was overwhelmingly difficult to... read full post >>

Like with many other things I have read in this course, I found this novel a little hard for me to follow at times. There were so many characters and aliases that I constantly lost track of who was who. That said, certain parts really stood out to me, especially the sections that focused on […] read full post >>

Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. The journey back to the cottage after last week's adventures (featuring Calvino) has not been without its bumps and mishaps--I nearly wrote about the wrong book because I misread the schedule, and was a ... read full post >>

Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. The journey back to the cottage after last week's adventures (featuring Calvino) has not been without its bumps and mishaps--I nearly wrote about the wrong book because I misread the schedule, and was a ... read full post >>

Ricardo Piglia’s Money to Burn was an interesting read for me, mostly because it is not the type of book I would normally pick up. I usually do not gravitate toward crime novels, and this story is very centered around a bank robbery and the criminals involved in it. It took me a little while […] read full post >>

Okay I promise I tried my best, but if there’s any questions about who’s which character, I might lose my spot in the goteverythingrightonquizzes club. read full post >>

I think this might be the book I’ve been most locked into throughout this course, I was hood up, headphones on, in the dark for two hours straight. I found myself rooting for the criminals, in particular Brignone and Dorda, which is maybe a bit screwed up of me, especially as their kill count grew […] read full post >>

Money to Burn is the most “movie-like” book we’ve read so far. It’s based on a real 1965 armored truck robbery in Buenos Aires that spins out into weeks of hiding, and finally a siege in Montevideo where the gang literally sets money on fire. The book covers several events: the planning, the robbery itself, […] read full post >>

okay, “Money to burn” was the drama. I feel like really haven’t seen as many books with this criminal, dystopian genre so I’m glad we added this to the mix. If I’ll be honest I’ve never been too much of a fan of crime stories, (aside from my annual true crime TikTok story time that […] read full post >>

This was by far the most interesting book I have read so far. (Maybe this was because I chose my books based on lengths, rather than which stories actually stood out to me ^o^). All the other readings I’ve done had me zoning out and re-reading paragraphs, but this one was able to be completed […] read full post >>

"Oh, he's a high, high climber. Rush, rush, got the yeyo? Rush, rush, give me yeyo" read full post >>

The start of this novel gave me Season 1 “Money Heist” vibes, minus the queer representation. We had latino criminals planning for a big heist that would change their lives, and we get the explore the dynamics between each character within this “ambitious” team. But there’s a huge contrast, everyone here is pure evil, like […] read full post >>

Up to this point, Money to Burn has been one of the most interesting books from this course. In fact, I found myself extremelt eager to find out what happens next. I really liked the suspense, the description and the close feeling to the characters. Two aspects of the novel stood out to me, one […] read full post >>

After reading this book, Piglia presents crime not as an act of violence but as a window into society’s values and contradictions. What I thought was really good about the book was that how the criminals burning the stolen money allows us to reconsider what wealth really is, as throughout the book, the bank robber […] read full post >>