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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Having just landed in Vancouver today, I looked at all the assignments I had due this week and found out this blog post was due yesterday, much to my dismay. Fighting the impending jet lag, I went to purchase “Swann’s Way” by Proust and began my reading. Having no expectations or any context of this […]
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Let me just start off by saying that that was not even remotely what I expected. This felt like a fever dream, I have reread sections and still don’t totally know what the point of some of that was. It felt like it was flitting back and forth between things, or going on tangents, and […]
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Song of the week: Les Champs-Élysées – Joe Dassin Where do I begin? This was a difficult read, not just because it was our first book of the semester, but also due to Proust’s looooong sentences. I really wanted to like this book, and maybe I would have if I had read the entire thing […]
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