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“Money to Burn” by Ricardo Piglia

Posted by: Fiona W

Welcome to my eighth blog! This week’s reading of “Money to Burn” presented a mixed experience for me. While I found the narrative to be intriguing in certain aspects, particularly the detailed characterizations and the exploration of the complexities ... read full post >>
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“Money to Burn” by Ricardo Piglia

Posted by: Fiona W

Welcome to my eighth blog! This week’s reading of “Money to Burn” presented a mixed experience for me. While I found the narrative to be intriguing in certain aspects, particularly the detailed characterizations and the exploration of the complexities ... read full post >>
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Money to Burn: the real homosexual agenda

Posted by: chia chi ou-chin

The reading this week, Money to Burn, is one of the longer readings so far in the course (at around 200 pages which is still relatively short if I’m recalling back to Span312 where we once read a 400+ page book). However, because it its style of writing, reading the book felt a lot swifter […] read full post >>
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Let it shrivel up and burn -Money to Burn

Posted by: Gabriella’s RMST Blog

 Hello everyone! I hope you guys have been enjoying the sun as much as I have. I actually took advantage of this weather and did most of my reading for this week's book Money to Burn by Piligia, outside. What a change of pace this was from our usu... read full post >>
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Let it shrivel up and burn -Money to Burn

Posted by: Gabriella’s RMST Blog

 Hello everyone! I hope you guys have been enjoying the sun as much as I have. I actually took advantage of this weather and did most of my reading for this week's book Money to Burn by Piligia, outside. What a change of pace this was from our usu... read full post >>
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Money to Burn

Posted by: Julia W

 Hey everyone, I hope you are doing well. This week, I read "Money to Burn" by Ricardo Pigila. I had high hopes for this novel, given the themes of mystery, deception, the creative process, and, most interestingly, criminal activity. Still, I like... read full post >>
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Reflection : Money to Burn by Ricardo Piglia

Posted by: Marcus

 When I was reading the book, the events seemed very farfetched, so I was surprised that at the end of the novel, in the epilogue to find out that these events had actually happened and this wasn’t a work of fiction. I thought that the way of comm... read full post >>
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Money to Burn

Posted by: Julia W

 Hey everyone, I hope you are doing well. This week, I read "Money to Burn" by Ricardo Pigila. I had high hopes for this novel, given the themes of mystery, deception, the creative process, and, most interestingly, criminal activity. Still, I like... read full post >>
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Reflection : Money to Burn by Ricardo Piglia

Posted by: Marcus

 When I was reading the book, the events seemed very farfetched, so I was surprised that at the end of the novel, in the epilogue to find out that these events had actually happened and this wasn’t a work of fiction. I thought that the way of comm... read full post >>
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Reality to Burn – Piglia

Posted by: Page Pioneer

“you have fuck-all to do and so you read” (74) That was me this past weekend. Well, not quite, I also had studying and work to do haha, but there was also lots of time to read. As someone who typically shies away from thrillers or crime novels, diving into “Money to Burn” felt the […] read full post >>
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