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Going into this class, I’ll be honest, I was a little intimidated. When we started with Combray by Marcel Proust, I genuinely struggled. It was probably the most difficult thing I’ve had to read in a long time. The sentences felt endless, the pacing was slow, and I kept rereading the same parts trying to […] read full post >>

This was my first book that I chose on a whim without reading the synopsis at the start of the semester so I was pretty blindsided by the topic that it delved into! However, It’s not written in a complicated way and the chapters move on pretty quickly. What stayed with me was how normalized […] read full post >>

 Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. I’m breaking the fourth wall again for these last two blog posts—this one on Love Me Tender and the upcoming Conclusions post. I think it lets me say a little more than when I’m playing at the wood... read full post >>

 Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. I’m breaking the fourth wall again for these last two blog posts—this one on Love Me Tender and the upcoming Conclusions post. I think it lets me say a little more than when I’m playing at the wood... read full post >>

Going into this book, I expected much more emotional writing than what I think I recieved. read full post >>

 Love Me Tender by Constance Debre was an interesting read and very different from the other books that I have read for this course. I found that the chapters were mostly a page long which made me think about how in life we have numerous chapters ... read full post >>

 Love Me Tender by Constance Debre was an interesting read and very different from the other books that I have read for this course. I found that the chapters were mostly a page long which made me think about how in life we have numerous chapters ... read full post >>

Immediately, the writing of this book surprised me（´∇｀”）I didn’t know it was written recently, so the short, punchy sentences were not what I expected. Still, despite how seemingly to-the-point and emotionless the sentences were, the overall raw feeling of this book made it so that it took a bit more effort for me to read, […] read full post >>

I don’t really know what exactly I should be talking about in this blog. However I’ll start by talking about how I kept kicking the stone down the road when it came to my literature requirement. I didn’t really get the logic behind a science, literature or writing requirement. I completed the science and the […] read full post >>

To be completely honest, the title of this book absolutely made me go back and listen to the Elvis song by the same name. That was on loop during this book. But that’s a side tangent. In all honesty, at the start of this book I didn’t love the fact that it was in first […] read full post >>

Love Me Tender is a novel filled with themes like manipulation, homophobia, and despair. Debré, a woman who has divorced her husband and come out as a lesbian, is met with overwhelming challenges. She struggles personally with her identity, emotionally... read full post >>

Love Me Tender is a novel filled with themes like manipulation, homophobia, and despair. Debré, a woman who has divorced her husband and come out as a lesbian, is met with overwhelming challenges. She struggles personally with her identity, emotionally... read full post >>

I just finished Love Me Tender by Constance Debré, and I feel a bit conflicted about it in a way that actually made the experience more interesting. Going into it, I wasn’t expecting something this emotionally heavy. The story follows Constance after she loses custody of her son, and that situation kind of hangs over […] read full post >>

Reading Love Me Tender by Constance Debré felt kind of like being dropped into someone’s brain mid-thought with no filter, no neat explanations, just raw emotion and sharp observations. It’s definitely not a traditional narrative, and that’s one of the first things I noticed. The writing is stripped down, almost blunt, and it moves in […] read full post >>

Reading “Love Me Tender” was a very interesting experience. The writing felt a bit similar to “The Book of Chameleons” in that some of the chapters are extremely short and the narration is simple to understand.I like that Constance decided to live her ... read full post >>