The Book of Chameleons as a title makes me think about people changing their colours, and to my surprise reading the book was exactly that but with a focus on individuals actually focused on changing their entire identities and lives because of their past and the narrator being a gecko?! This immediately made me curious […]
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The Book of Chameleons was such an interesting read! It focuses on two characters, Felix Ventura and a gecko. This is very fascinating because the gecko is the book’s narrator and is unnamed for most of the book. I haven’t seen a book do this bef…
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The Book of Chameleons was such an interesting read! It focuses on two characters, Felix Ventura and a gecko. This is very fascinating because the gecko is the book’s narrator and is unnamed for most of the book. I haven’t seen a book do this bef…
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Reading this was refreshing in a way ◝(ᵔᗜᵔ)◜ but still just as disorienting as some of the other books we’ve read (╥﹏╥) The short chapters made it really easy to keep reading and I ended up finishing it in one sitting, but with how much we jumped around/how dreamlike it felt, it definitely took a […]
AT TIMES, I wonder about the nature of synchronicity is?
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I know this text wasn’t that long compared to some of the other texts, but somehow the writing style made it feel even shorter which I really appreciate. I also appreciate the lack of 50 billion names all being introduced at the same time, which I can’t say about Piglia. I will say, reading a […]
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Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. I feel as though I’ve said this about every book I read so far, but I hope that it does not come off as disingenuous when I say that this was an intriguing read. Tragically, the Spanish Civil …
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Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. I feel as though I’ve said this about every book I read so far, but I hope that it does not come off as disingenuous when I say that this was an intriguing read. Tragically, the Spanish Civil …
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Prior to opening this book, I was very intrigued by its title. Was this going to be a book about actual chameleons? Or were the chameleons going to hold a sort of symbolic significance – like the doves did in The Time of the Doves. First off …
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