Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. I don’t think I’ve felt this confused about a novel since Combray. Truly, opening the book to two full pages of a spiderweb of characters was daunting, to say the least. It reminded me of the time I atte…
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Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. I don’t think I’ve felt this confused about a novel since Combray. Truly, opening the book to two full pages of a spiderweb of characters was daunting, to say the least. It reminded me of the time I atte…
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with class, death, growth, language, relationships, women
I think this is my favourite book of my contract. I mean, considering there’s only one book left, I’m fairly confident in saying that this is my favourite （´∇｀”）After so many books where perhaps the sentences were a bit complicated, or where the scenes jumped around in time, it was great to read a book […]
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I was looking forwards to reading this book and it did not let me down! Although it was a bit longer than the other books, it had me really invested in it for almost all of it. I liked it right from the start when it lays out all of the characters in the narrator […]
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For starters… there were once again a lot of characters in this novel! So I’m extremely grateful to Ferrante for including an index of characters at the very beginning. It was very much appreciated for someone like me, who struggles with remembering characters – especially side characters that are only mentioned a handful of times […]
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with friendship, My brilliant friend
I’ve never been so tense yet invested while reading a book. Elena and Lila’s friendship was stressful to the point I was holding my breath in for the most of it. The starting scene where Elena says, “she wanted to vanish; she wanted every one of her cells to disappear, nothing of her ever to be found” (pg 20) and the title, “my brilliant friend” didn’t brace me for what was about […]
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So, I choice this book because a friend of mine (that took this course a couple years ago) loves it and recommended it to me rather aggressively. The prologue, I loved. To me it felt a little like a set … Continue reading →
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When I think back on my adolescence I feel a strong sense of nostalgia — a painful sort of longing that will never truly be fulfilled. I suppose it’s true what they say… you don’t truly appreciate what you have until it’s gone. As time passes, I look back fondly on my childhood years, but […]
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I picked this book because I saw that one of the main themes was friendship and recently I’d been thinking about friendship a lot and my own relationships with some of my friends and this was very interesting to read.I feel like ever since I was a litt…
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with education, friendships, jealousy, My brilliant friend
I picked this book because I saw that one of the main themes was friendship and recently I’d been thinking about friendship a lot and my own relationships with some of my friends and this was very interesting to read.I feel like ever since I was a litt…
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with education, friendships, jealousy, My brilliant friend
