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Hi, everyone! After finishing the book The Shrouded Woman by María Luisa Bombal, a question came to my mind – why does Ana Maria care so much about her image after death? She cares about her embroidered sheets, perfumed with lavender. She also fo... read full post >>

The book we read this week is The Shrouded Woman, written by Maria Luisa Bombal. I used to think death is the end, that everything stops when a person dies. But from this book, I feel how an individual is constructed through a network of emotional bonds that may or may not vanish after they […] read full post >>

I’ll start with saying that reading this was way better than the last book which genuinely made me question if I was dumb. André starts the book by asking, “who am I?” Honestly, mood. But instead of taking a nap or getting a hobby, he decides that the only way to find himself is to […] read full post >>

Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl. read full post >>

Marcel Proust read full post >>

If I’m being 100 percent honest, this book was a harder read than I expected. I don’t know if it’s because I haven’t sat down and read a proper book in a while or if the pacing was extremely slow. I found myself constantly constantly staring at the same paragraph for 15 minutes, restarting it […] read full post >>

When I read novels, I expect to be immersed, anxiously turning the page to know what happens next. Not even just pertaining to novels, but video games too. Otherwise I just drop it. I can’t quite do that to Marcel Proust’s “Combray”, and I never expected to feel that immersion with the book. I was […] read full post >>

I personally had a blast reading Nadja, a peek into the mind of someone very eccentric but on the verge of being mentally unhinged. To be honest however, the pacing is awfully slow, it’s a type of atmospheric writing that requires patience but a manner of reading that doesn’t take the story seriously, but still […] read full post >>

Hi again blog :)) Thank the heavens this week the reading had normal lenght sentences (looking at you, Combray). I absolutely adored reading Mad Toy. The pacing of the story was amazing, and I really felt as if I was looking at snapshots of Silvio’s life. I thought I would feel the gaps in the […] read full post >>

 I found Nadja interesting because I felt that it had some similarities with Proust in how the story utilizes a lot of internal monologue and internal thought processes. This parallel of self-identity and figuring out memories is intriguing. Putti... read full post >>

 Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. The stacks are toppling already--not the best of signs, but hopefully I should be able to get these tremors under control with a good spell of focus. I won't dally with describing the organizationa... read full post >>

 Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. The stacks are toppling already--not the best of signs, but hopefully I should be able to get these tremors under control with a good spell of focus. I won't dally with describing the organizationa... read full post >>

 I found Nadja interesting because I felt that it had some similarities with Proust in how the story utilizes a lot of internal monologue and internal thought processes. This parallel of self-identity and figuring out memories is intriguing. Putti... read full post >>

I think everyone took a long drawn sigh of relief reading this after Proust. read full post >>

So, before I start on the novel, I learned a new word today: picaresque ᐠ( ᐛ )ᐟ I found myself really enjoying this format, with each chapter feeling like a short story woven together by a constant protagonist. I also just enjoyed the book in general! The first chapter, the band of thieves, felt wholesome […] read full post >>