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“Faces in the Crowd” by Valeria Luiselli was definitely not an ordinary novel. Its complex style of writing made it very hard to find meaning through the novel, which made me kind of sad because this is the last reading and I was expecting a lot from it. Luiselli deftly weaves a fragmented and profound […] read full post >>

Hi everyone!!  I hope you had a great long weekend 🙂 This weekend was actually my brother’s birthday so I went with him and a few of my friends to Whistler to celebrate. Normally I have read most of our books as a PDF on my ipad, but in honour of this being our LAST […] read full post >>

As we’re approaching the end of this term, I fully expected the last reading to end with a bang, something memorable – to wrap up the reading experience nicely. Out of all the books that I’ve read throughout this term, “Faces in the Crowd” was probably one of my least favorites, and one that I […] read full post >>

“I can no longer read properly” (118) I feel like this class has changed the way I read. I am not sure how, but I definitely think if you had handed me this book a few months ago, I may have just given up. So, perhaps our professor was correct in his presumption that the […] read full post >>

“Faces in the Crowd” was not the quick and fun read I was hoping for during finals. It was a messy, convoluted and oft infuriating exercise in patience that felt a little like reading the film Inception. The book centres around the story of a woman liv... read full post >>

This week's novel was definitely not my favorite book but I certainly appreciate it the complexity and often infuriating depth it had. While the notion of having novels within novels was very interesting and I thought would make a very good book, I rea... read full post >>

Hello everybody- the book this week was Luiselli’s “Faces in a crowd”, which I don’t even really know how to describe the plot…think ghosts but not really, a wife with a husband and 2 children but not really, and a girl working in a publishing firm as a translator that’s a bit obsessed with this […] read full post >>

Faces in the Crowd, is the final novel I read for this course and luckily I got to end this semester on a good note. This novel was very interesting to read, to dissect, and to explore. The narrative was fractioned in a rigid fashion which keeps the reader attentive and on their toes in a […] read full post >>

‘My Brilliant Friend” by Elena Ferrante was by far my favourite book of the semester. Why? Because it was well written, intense, and most of all, relatable. The story follows two girls from childhood through adolescence, Elena and Lila, who are two unlikely friends that have an intense, competitive, and tough friendship due to their […] read full post >>

I hoped that this weeks book would follow the general trend of the books leading up to it, that it would be more modern and thus easier to grasp. There’s also another way I could look at it, that each book was getting “easier” because I was getting better at reading. I think this weeks … Continue reading Thoughts on Faces in the Crowd read full post >>

Hi everyone! Welcome back to our final week of reading! To end us off, I decided to read ‘Faces in the Crowd’ by Valeria Luiselli. Unfortunately, I can’t necessarily say that I loved this book, which is too bad because I was really hoping to end on a fun note. However, I still found parts […] read full post >>

  Hi Everyone! Many of the novels we have read so far have been confusing for me in the beginning, but then make sense as I get further along in the book. There had always been a point that I begin to understand what exactly is going on.... read full post >>

  Hi Everyone! Many of the novels we have read so far have been confusing for me in the beginning, but then make sense as I get further along in the book. There had always been a point that I begin to understand what exactly is going on.... read full post >>

Confusing is a word I would use to describe this book. Faces In the Crowd was a pretty experimental story and perspective into storytelling and what is true or not.  Even though I can see the appeal in this kind of meta book in a book where you never really know what the author is […] read full post >>

At last, we have arrived at our last book of the semester (summer is near we can do it!) and what a way to end! ‘Faces in the Crowd’ by Valeria Luiselli was an interesting read, it had many layers of story-telling that was only made (semi) clear to me after I had watch the […] read full post >>