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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So my first thoughts after reading this novel… was honestly “confusion”. I did not know what was going on for the first half of the novel, and even after finishing it, I still don’t feel like I fully understand what was going on. Things started to make sense after I watched the lecture video. The […]
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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 […]
“Then I go back to the novel. A vertical novel told horizontally. A story that has to be seen from below, like Manhattan from the subway.” (122) “Or a horizontal novel, told vertically. A horizontal vertigo.” (125) Getting into the book was a bit difficult for me. It reminded me of Andre Breton’s Nadja due to what […]
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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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I really liked the book my Brilliant Friend, and from the very beginning I had a feeling that I was going to enjoy it. Something about the way the story started just felt more approachable compared to some of the other books we’ve read in this class. It did not feel overwhelming or confusing right […]
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This was the last book I’ve had to read for class, and I can honestly say this barely feels like homework anymore. I might even read the other books in this series. This blog was written on the beach, next to my bestest friends, with none of whom I have a relationship like Lenu and […]
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