Well, well, well. We’ve officially reached the end and I can confidently say it was a great journey. Whether I was reading a novel that confused the living hell out of me, weirded me out, or made me crazy uncomfortable, I genuinely enjoyed every moment of it. One thing I really enjoyed and wish they […]
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To start off, I really enjoyed this course, largely because I can really say that my passion for reading which I lost once starting university because of how many ‘boring’ school books I had to read. All of these books provoked emotion in me, allowing me to engage more with the texts and keep me […]
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We did it everyone! We are at the final stretch! Closing Thoughts I can’t believe this is my last blog post. After so many emotions, nights staying up reading, and page after page of books I would have never read on my own, I am honestly sad that it’s over. I initially took this class […]
Posted in Blogs, Conclusion | Tagged with blog, go read a book tonight, so long farwell, watch sound of music too
I cannot believe it, we are at the final book in this class. Congratulations everyone! I hope you enjoyed the blogs I’ve written, along with the books we read together <3
I am happy to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this book! The subject matte…
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This week’s book made me feel like dropping to my knees and praising the sun in the sky. I actually ENJOYED the novel; who could have thought!! However, let’s not get it twisted, I was sometimes still confused throughout the story. You’d think our main character would be a chameleon, right? Wrong, he is a […]
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I think we all need to start off by giving a round of applause to Professor Jon Beasley-Murray for making this book a required reading because IT WAS FIREEEEEE. I know everyone is raving about how they loved this book and just the whole crime genre in general which I love to hear because crime, […]
Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with blog, crime, Drugs, Materialism, sexuality
Seemingly, each time I open a book for this class, I think, “This one will be better than the last!” And each time, I am severely wrong and confused. It is a talent, the way our books keep growing in their unhinged behaviour and storytelling. This may be because I read If on a Winter’s Night a […]
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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
Here we are, week 8. Wow, wow, wow. For this week, I chose to read The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (who, I can’t lie, has a sick-sounding) and, if I’m very honest, I’m not sure if I have that much to say about it. Maybe I still have a very juvenile taste, […]
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This week’s reading was titled ‘The Hour of the Star’ by Clarice Lispector and was definitely an interesting read. I found myself very lost in the opening pages, and a little unexcited about the rest of the book, I think largely in part that seemed to be a lot of writing about more abstract concepts […]
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