Elena Ferrante checks your mailbox, I’m sending you a check for emotional damages. Holy fuck I loved this book. This genuinely might be one of my favourite books I’ve read this semester, and maybe on of my favourites books in a while. It’s in this novel’s simplicity is where I found the most connection to […]
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BROKE MY BRAIN. Let me start off by saying that I didn’t dislike like the novel…I was merely confused by it and tended to get lost at times when I was trying to follow along with the storyline. Also, before I begin an “analysis” of this book I have to mention that I didn’t enjoy the […]
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Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli depicts a woman living in Mexico City with her husband and children, writing a novel about a woman living in New York City. It is not clear whether this story is the past life of the writer, or if these memories are just fictitious creations. Just like the […]
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Welcome to the last book review of the semester! This week I read My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, and I am so happy this was the last book. It is a coming-of-age book (so on brand for this class) about two girls in a poor neighbourhood in Naples. The story starts with an older […]
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Throughout this course, I’ve only relied on the PDF versions to read. But, for the first time, I decided to buy the physical copy and it honestly helped make my reading experience better as I felt I was able to better connect with the story leaving me with more questions in the end. There was no […]
Damn. Just as I thought I was getting a hang of this reading and understanding thing. What a way to ring in the end of this course with one of the most mind bending and confusing narratives I have ever read. I thoroughly despised every moment of reading this. I in no way feels I grasped […]
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For the last week of readings, I chose Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli. I’m not gonna lie, after reading blogs about the other novel we could choose for this week, I kind of wish I read the other one to write about instead because I truly don’t …
Posted in Blogs, Luiselli | Tagged with fiction, reminiscing, writing
For the last week of readings, I chose Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli. I’m not gonna lie, after reading blogs about the other novel we could choose for this week, I kind of wish I read the other one to write about instead because I truly don’t …
Posted in Blogs, Luiselli | Tagged with fiction, reminiscing, writing
“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.” (Alcott, Little Women) A wearying message arrives to Elena: Her friend has vanished. Yet, […]
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with communism, duality, education, Feminism, girlhood, life, poverty, society, Womanhood
This one reminded me of my best friend Rachel. (warning: this is a trauma dump) In “My Brilliant Friend”‘, Ferrante illustrates class, gender and language through the friendship of two little girls as we progress to see them turn into adolescent women. Since Jon had already discussed the societal problems in this book, I would …
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