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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 >>

I cannot believe it, we are at the final book in this class. Congratulations everyone! I hope you enjoyed the blogs I’ve written, along with the books we read together <3 I am happy to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this book! The subject matte... read full post >>

“Faces in the Crowd” by Valeria Luiselli was definitely not an ordinary novel. Its complex style of writing made it very hard to find meaning through the novel, which made me kind of sad because this is the last reading and I was expecting a lot from it. Luiselli deftly weaves a fragmented and profound […] read full post >>

Hi everyone!!  I hope you had a great long weekend 🙂 This weekend was actually my brother’s birthday so I went with him and a few of my friends to Whistler to celebrate. Normally I have read most of our books as a PDF on my ipad, but in honour of this being our LAST […] read full post >>

As we’re approaching the end of this term, I fully expected the last reading to end with a bang, something memorable – to wrap up the reading experience nicely. Out of all the books that I’ve read throughout this term, “Faces in the Crowd” was probably one of my least favorites, and one that I […] read full post >>

“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 >>