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While reading this book, I had to continuously remind myself that this is based on a true story as I would always seem to forget. This book, which was about an armed gang who stole 7 million Argentine pesos and escaped from Buenos Aires where the whole robbery took place and fled to Montevideo, Uruguay […] read full post >>

Hi everyone, this week’s book is Ricardo Piglia’s “Money to Burn”. Despite the description sounding interesting, I couldn’t really get into this book. The descriptions violence happening to random innocent people and the various drugs Dorda uses just d... read full post >>

Hi everyone, this week’s book is Ricardo Piglia’s “Money to Burn”. Despite the description sounding interesting, I couldn’t really get into this book. The descriptions violence happening to random innocent people and the various drugs Dorda uses just d... read full post >>

This book was like watching a movie to me. I thought the narrator really described the characters and was strategic about it so that we could connect to them and not be completely unbiased of their stories and especially of their (questionable) actions. This book tackles the real life story of a bank robbery, with […] read full post >>

Just based off the tags of the book, I was interested to get myself in some sort of thriller novel that to according to different people was either loose fiction or way to open truth. The idea of truth comes to the forefront here on wether or not it is acceptable to construe the truth […] read full post >>

    I would give this book a 3/10.  I don’t usually like crime/thriller or action books. I also really didn’t like that it was a true story because the descriptions of the deaths were definitely creeping me out to be honest. An... read full post >>

    I would give this book a 3/10.  I don’t usually like crime/thriller or action books. I also really didn’t like that it was a true story because the descriptions of the deaths were definitely creeping me out to be honest. An... read full post >>

Last week I remember including in my blog that as the books got more modern, they were getting easier to understand. I think I have to take back that statement for this week’s book. Although the actual language used in the book is more like the action/adventure novels I used to binge, the jumps in … Continue reading Thoughts on Money to Burn read full post >>

These were some messed up characters. Like I don’t even know what to think about them…or even about this book for that matter. Also, why is that we haven’t read a single novel yet with a normal character?? Like no matter what anyone says all the characters we’ve read so far have been messed up […] read full post >>

A whole lot of sex and rape. This has been so far one of my favourite novels to read. I think this is due to my love for true crime, and psychology. My passion for true crime was satisfied through the exciting pursuit of the robbers by Silva. Additionally, the use of evidence in police […] read full post >>