“nothing to bog me down, a style inspired by emptiness, the only one for me” (29). This was the easiest novel for me to read in this course – I usually take several hours over multiple sessions but this one I did all in a couple hours. The prose is very matter of fact, short […]
Apr 4, 2026 Finally (unfortunately) we’ve reached the last book of this course. Despite some horrors I’ve read in the past few months I enjoyed experiencing the books, and what an honor to get the chance to feel all the ranges of human emotion through voices of characters from different places and times. I’m actually […]
Love Me Tender by Constance Debré left me with a slightly frustrating reaction because it felt like nothing really happened? The narrative drifts rather than builds and it circles the same emotional terrain instead of moving forward in any traditional sense. I suppose the more I reflect on it the more it could be an […]
Let me begin this blog by saying there was much insight in this book about existentialism, which complemented and helped me think through/work with my recent existential crisis and the issue, the search for meaning. I spent the last few months or so th…
Let me begin this blog by saying there was much insight in this book about existentialism, which complemented and helped me think through/work with my recent existential crisis and the issue, the search for meaning. I spent the last few months or so th…
I am deeply disturbed. The story follows three women forced into polygamous marriages, starting with Ramla, who has just finished high school and found true love, only for her parents to marry her off to a fifty-year-old rich man because money. Then there’s Hindou, Ramla’s sister, who is married to her alcoholic, abusive cousin, who […]
I believe that Love me Tender by Debré is a novel underscoring a woman’s desire for authenticity at the expense of the loss and dissatisfaction involved in this desire. It exposes the beauty of pursuing one’s own course of life … Continue r…
I actually quite liked this novel and I think it has a lot of things to unpack! For some reason, it was one of the reads that really got me comfy (I’m talking about a cup of tea, snuggled into bed, the whole combo). Gradually over the course, I think I made time to read […]
Constance Debré, Love Me Tender
Questions on Love Me Tender
