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As much as I tried to dive into this book, I couldn’t quite get into it. read full post >>

After reading Agostino by Alberto Moravia, I feel really sad for the kid. I feel like most of kids nowadays, our sexual awakening is through parenting or school education about sexuality and health. But for Agostino, I would say it is through a fo... read full post >>

After reading Agostino by Alberto Moravia, I feel really sad for the kid. I feel like most of kids nowadays, our sexual awakening is through parenting or school education about sexuality and health. But for Agostino, I would say it is through a fo... read full post >>

To start, I think there is so much to unpack in Agostino. I enjoyed how Moravia framed the story as it was easy for me to follow the protagonist’s experience. It was so good that I finished it all in one sitting and actually think it is potentially my favourite out of all that we […] read full post >>

With the first chapter of the book we are at once conscious of the unspeakable absurdities of life, of a thumping rhythm of isolation carrying its beat across desolate roads, into unsolved conflicts, and through crowds of unknown faces, leading us towa... read full post >>

Something that hit me while reading The Shrouded Woman is its narrative perspective. Bombal chooses to tell Ana María’s story almost entirely from the moment after her death, as she lies in her coffin waiting to be buried. At first, this feels like a purely experimental or modernist choice an “impossible” point of view meant […] read full post >>

The Shrouded Woman - Bombal read full post >>

I feel like every book I’ve picked up so far in this class has just left me confused. I thought books from the 1900s were easier to understand than the ones I read in RMST201, but these books might be more confusing??? Anyway, The Shrouded Woman felt like a novel that exists in this strange […] read full post >>

This week’s reading, The Shrouded Woman by María Luisa Bombal, felt very different from the texts we’ve read so far in this course. Compared to Proust especially, I found this much easier to read and follow. Even though the novel deals with heavy themes like death, regret, and unhappy relationships, the writing itself feels fluid […] read full post >>

I found this weeks short book by Maria Luisa Bombal certainly to be the most enjoyable one for myself following Breton and Proust. The text felt much more fluid and readable than the previous weeks as it did not have me constantly rereading parts of it to try and figure out what was going on. […] read full post >>

  Honestly this book wasn’t what I expected, reading with the soft tone and perspective of a woman really made me question how every single one of our decisions lead us to different paths and possibilities. For me regret has to be one of the worst possible feelings. Think about the last time you lay […] read full post >>

First things first, this was so much easier to read than Proust’s Combray. This would be a type of book I would pick up when I am in a sad/depressed mood. That made it a little difficult to read because … Continue reading → read full post >>

The first thing I noticed was how pretty the writing was ٩(✧ᗜ✧)و the way the words flowed through each passage created such a fantastical image, and each description was really beautiful! I also loved the repetition of the phrase “the day burns hours, minutes, seconds.” It not only felt like a nice transition between memories, […] read full post >>

One would assume that a story narrated from the literal grave would lack a sense of momentum and engagement that feels somewhat understimulating to any average reader. read full post >>

 The Shrouded Woman by Maria Luisa Bombal is such an interesting read because the main character is a woman named Ana Maria who is dead. It centers around how she’s lying down at the funeral wake and people from all walks of her life come to visit... read full post >>