This novel is filled with money, crime, sex, drugs, alcohol; in one word: chaos! After learning that this story was based on a true story, it gave me even more of a sense of the insanity of the world. Anyway, I wanted to share something about the theme that the whole story revolves around: MONEY! […]
Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with Corruption, homosexual, lure, money, obsession
“What has to be most feared, the worst thing in life, always happens out of the blue, without anyone being ready for it, which makes it all the worse, because one is both waiting but has no time to get used to the idea and is caught out, paralysed, yet obliged to act and take […]
Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with betrayal, Corruption, crime, Drugs, love, mafia, money, morality, queer, robbery
I know I said that “Time of the Doves” was one of the books of all time, but this book is a strong contender for the book of all time. “The Lover” by Margurite Duras was an interesting book to say the least. This book’s subject matter was heavily sexual, which would be eyebrow raising […]
Posted in Blogs, Duras | Tagged with love, loveless, race, sad, sex
The Trenchcoat by Norman Manea was a book which had importance and meaning, hidden by the disguise of normalcy. At first read, the book depicts the drama and relationships of many characters, and displays their conversations over dinner parties, and in the privacy of their homes. It is only in the small details where one […]
Posted in Blogs, Manea | Tagged with censorship, class, communism, history, life, politics, revolution, Symbolism, war
Join us as we dive into the deep and seedy world of the tumultuous Bucharest. My question is, what was your experience of confusion and disorientation reading the book? how do you think it added or subtracted to the story
Posted in Blogs, Manea | Tagged with Commies, intelligence agents watching u, JFK, paranoia, Pizzagate, Qanon
This week’s reading was The Trench Coat. The book takes place in Romania under the communist regime and to be frank, I did not enjoy reading it. I was on the treadmill while reading the beginning section and what I captured was the copious amounts of drinking such as whisky and vodka, which coincidentally, is […]
Posted in Blogs, Manea | Tagged with communism, politics, war
When talking about illicit relationships that make all of us uncomfortable in some way or the other this class ate and left no crumbs, so did this book honestly. But this was definitely an interesting read, I also think it might be the best one so far. Duras’s story goes well beyond a straightforward romance […]
Posted in Blogs, Duras | Tagged with books, fiction, love, non-linear, Social Issues, Taylor swift, The Lover, writing, writing-tips
Hello, I’m back at it yet again to talk a bit about this week’s book: The Trenchcoat by Norman Manea. On the whole, I found the book kind of confusing to read. The start feels like it throws us into the story very quickly, and we are left to try and figure it out on […]
Posted in Blogs, Manea | Tagged with communism, jackets, Romania, totalitarianism, uncertainty
I am just going to go ahead and preemptively apologize because I know you are probably tired of reading this when it comes to blogs about The Trenchcoat by Norman Manea, but I’m confused. I wish I wasn’t, but I am; along with a little dissatisfied. This book had me almost as scrambled as the […]
Posted in Blogs, Manea | Tagged with blog, life, paranoia, politics, war
This book, [The Lover], was more familiar for me than other books, and it is most likely because of the movie released in 1992. It was not a completely different experience with texts, but indeed had a different impression on writings about her youth. Every time I write the blog post, I feel like I […]
