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I genuinely spent almost the entirety of yesterday reading Mad Toy by Roberto Arlt. To my surprise, I actually fairly enjoyed this piece of literature. However, one thing I struggled with was the number of characters that were introduced in the first couple pages. It normally takes me a lot of time to remember character […] read full post >>

Hello everyone, I’m Zahra Mirza, and I’m excited to be in this class RMST 202 with you! I am international student from Mumbai, India and I am pursuing a major in Economics in my third year. I am extremely passionate about financial markets, international economics and trade! Apart from my studies, I find myself immersed […] read full post >>

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Hello, My name is Tyler Wu. I am born and raised from the Philippines, and decided to move here to Vancouver for university. I am currently a 5th year student and I am on my last semester, so hopefully I am able to graduate after this semester. Im currently in the Interdisciplinary Studies Program, primarily […] read full post >>

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jan 14, 2026 Hello RMST 202, my name is Liv and I am a first year engineering student taking this class as one of my humanities electives. I chose this course primarily because I loved reading and literature, up until moving to Canada four years ago and finding myself slacking on reading anything that is […] read full post >>

Combray took me quite a while to finish reading. read full post >>

I went into reading “Combray” fully prepared to be confused, and yet somehow, I was still caught off guard by just how confusing it was. This was not a light “oh, I’ll just read a few pages before bed” kind of text. This was a sit-up-straight, reread-the-same-sentence-four-times, question-your-intelligence kind of read. Proust’s sentences feel like […] read full post >>

Alright! I have my thesaurus open and I’m ready to overuse it. My first impressions reading ‘Combray’ is that I find myself re-reading a lot. Maybe i’ve fallen out of practice but if so, i’m glad this is the start of me rebuilding my trains of thought. Note 1 – The authors writing feels more […] read full post >>

Hello again blog :)) So….. Combray huh….. When I read the part of the introduction that says Proust’s texts are known to be complex because of his “famously long sentences”, I braced myself for a text full of sentences that an English teacher would be disappointed at. But reading this book and seeing one sentence […] read full post >>

I’m currently on the 7th page of Proust’s Combray and it’s making me feel quite sleepy. All this talk of sleep is making me wish I was in my bed instead of at school. Now I’m on page 11, and considering having a little nap. I feel I should be grateful for the ability to […] read full post >>

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We’ve all been there: staring at a sentence so long it feels like a marathon, wondering if we’ve forgotten how to read. That was my perspective when reading “Combray”. I’ll be honest, I spent a significant amount of time rereading paragraphs, looking it up on google, and questioning if I was “doing it wrong.” But […] read full post >>

From my perspective, Combray, written by Proust, is a wonderful mental journey back into the memories of the past. It all started with the narrator lying on the bed, half-dreaming, half-recalling the moments when he was still in Combray during his childhood. It was not a hard book to read for me, but since the […] read full post >>