Last Post! I’m glad that I’ve passed the class but a little sad to not engage in it again. I found this course on a reddit post, and decided, “What the hay, I’ll enroll”. I expected to read lots of books, but I didn’t expect to enjoy them as much as I did. “Enjoy” is […]
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We made it to the final blog post! A bitter sweet feeling indeed, although I don’t usually enjoy doing homework, the blog posts hold a special place in my heart as it actually allowed me to be transparent about what I read whilst reinforcing the concepts learned in the literature. Being able to open up […]
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An aspect I found really interesting in The Book of Chameleons is the idea that people can buy a new past. Félix Ventura creates fake histories for his clients by giving them new identities with documents, photos, and detailed family stories. At first, this seems almost humorous, but the more I think about it, the […]
Ricardo Piglia’s Money to Burn starts off like a classic crime story at first. A group of criminals plan a robbery, escapes across the border, and eventually end up trapped in a violent standoff with the police. It has all the elements you’d expect from a thriller such as guns, paranoia, betrayals, and tense planning […]
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The start of this novel gave me Season 1 “Money Heist” vibes, minus the queer representation. We had latino criminals planning for a big heist that would change their lives, and we get the explore the dynamics between each character within this “ambitious” team. But there’s a huge contrast, everyone here is pure evil, like […]
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The Trenchcoat was a pretty unsettling read in a quiet kind of way. The story feels simple on the surface, but there’s this constant tension lingering in the background that slowly creeps up on you. What I found really interesting is that everything is told through a child’s perspective. The narrator doesn’t fully understand the […]
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler feels like a prank. It’s interesting in the sense that the book never really lets you settle. You’re placed in the shoes of “the Reader,” literally you, trying to read a novel, only for it to get interrupted over and over again. Just when you start getting invested […]
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When I read The Hour of the Star, I wasn’t expecting to feel this uncomfortable. Not because of what happens, but because of how it’s told. Before we even really get to Macabéa, we’re stuck with Rodrigo S. M. spiraling about writing, about beginnings and endings, about whether he even has the right to tell this […]
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“The time of the doves” is interesting in the sense that we’re put in the shoes of Natalia, who seems to be emotionally confused at first and simply allows things to happen, someone does not seem to be in control of their life. She leaves her husband to be with Quimet, a charming personality that […]
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When i read Black Shack Alley it honestly felt less like reading a novel and more like listening to someone quietly telling the reader about their childhood. What stayed with me most wasn’t a single dramatic event, but the steady, exhausting rhythm of everyday life, the work, the hunger, the discipline, the waiting. The novels […]
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