Student Blogs

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 >>

 Hi blogggg!!! I can't believe that this is the last book I'm reading for this class!! I was wondering how I feel about this book. But in the end, I can relate to her surrender. I had a similar experience when my parents split up. It was a bi... read full post >>

 Hi blogggg!!! I can't believe that this is the last book I'm reading for this class!! I was wondering how I feel about this book. But in the end, I can relate to her surrender. I had a similar experience when my parents split up. It was a bi... read full post >>

There are a lot of topics in this book that shook me to the core. What does it mean to be a woman? Moreover, a gay woman? Moreoverover a gay woman who’s a mother. Because of this book, I questioned my perception of love, whether I was seeing things through too much of a fantastical lens, whether I got love all... read full post >>

I wanted to start by saying, I am not one who is particularly interested in literature/ i usually dont enjoy literature courses, but RMST 202 and the teaching team has changed my mind. I loved how i could freely state however I felt about the books I’ve read, without worrying abt it being correct in […] read full post >>

I can’t believe its the end of the semester already. Coming to the end of this course, I keep thinking about how every book we’ve read felt so different on the surface, yet somehow kept circling back to the same questions. At the beginning, I thought I would be reading a series of unrelated novels. […] read full post >>

I can’t say I’m not relieved that the school year is ending, but I still can’t believe how fast this term felt. I signed up for this class completely on a whim. I remember finding this course on a Reddit post at 2 a.m., and thought, sure, why not? I had no real idea what […] read full post >>

A review of Constance Debré, Love Me Tender read full post >>

But could that ever be possible if one must "exist without existing" (Amadou Amal, p. 94). Is there even solace in death? read full post >>

I really hate endings. They always feel bittersweet and usually end in tears for me (though book endings are usually a different story), but alas, everything must come to an end or something. When I get immersed in books, it’s like I experience the characters’ emotions for myself, so this course’s books gave me a […] read full post >>

Looking back on this course as a whole, I feel like one of the biggest things that stuck with me is how much these texts resist being pinned down. At the beginning, I thought we were just going to read a bunch of novels and analyze them in a pretty straightforward way, but instead it […] read full post >>

One of the biggest things I learned in this course is that literature is not just about what happens in a story, but how and why it is told. For example, when the class first started I was so lost and was not able to read or understand the books. I felt like it was […] read full post >>

The book was very uncomfortable to read and honestly left me feeling unsettled in a way I was not expecting. The book follows the story of three women who are trapped in terrible marriages, and each one of their stories is different yet it connects in a painful way, which shows the reality of a […] read full post >>

The Impatient follows three women, Ramla, Hindou, and Safira, as they navigate life inside a polygamous marriage in northern Cameroon, Africa. In this novel, every time a woman tries to stand up for herself or say that something is wrong, the fault is always put on her behaviour rather than what’s actually being done to […] read full post >>

Love Me Tender’s themes of motherhood and identity, and the ways they intersect, made me reflect on some of the less “obvious” ways these aspects of living in a patriarchy impact life. I didn’t love the writing style of this book; for me, it was a bit challenging to stay focused and could be confusing […] read full post >>