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…
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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…
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I really enjoyed Faces in the Crowd, however, I found myself more confused than not over the course of my read. The multiple perspective changes (from the woman to Owen), the different locations (i.e. New York City and Mexico City) and the various time periods (for example, the woman’s present day compared to her young […]
This was a long read, phew, but a very interesting one, regardless, I must say. At times, I did need to keep the book down, then get back to it due to the constant tension present. I definitely doubted if I would enjoy this novel, but it did take me by surprise (in a good […]
I mean, being from Ischia, I was already pretty biased towards loving My Brilliant Friend, but I really enjoyed this one. Though one of the longer books we’ve read in this course, I felt completely pulled into the story; it felt more like a book that I would normally choose to read for fun than […]
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The novel for this weeek, ‘My Brilliant Friend’ left me wanting to know so much more about the stories of the two close friends, especially due to the surprising ending of the shoes and marcello. Starting off, I found the relationship between Lenu and Lila a little…unsettling. The entire dynamic of their relationship was how […]
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I’m not sure where to begin with this one as well. I started every blog I’ve written with a line or two about how my struggle with reading as a habit it going so it feels right to do the same for the last blog I’m writing in this course. I feel like with every […]
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