A wonderful little vlog convo for a rainy Sunday (Tuesday) night. Enjoy! Merci! Apologies for the poor video quality, zoom kinda blows. My question for viewers is what do you think of the ending of the book and Natalia’s view of her life and the apparent shift in her feelings? did you find […]
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The Time Of The Doves was probably my favourite book we have read so far in this class. The book covers some dark topics and is not a particularly happy one and shows a resilient protagonist who is brought to her breaking point, who is then able …
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The Time Of The Doves was probably my favourite book we have read so far in this class. The book covers some dark topics and is not a particularly happy one and shows a resilient protagonist who is brought to her breaking point, who is then able …
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After reading “Time of the Doves” by Rodoreda I genuinely believe this book is the definition of suffering. In “Time of the Doves” we follow our protagonist Natalia as she goes through the Spanish Civil War and face major losses. This book had me feeling bad for Natalia through and through. I have never seen …
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Hello all, welcome back to the blog. This weeks read is The Time of the Doves by Merce Rodoreda, which is one of the most prominent works of Catalan literature. The book chronicles the life of Natalia before, during and after the Spanish Civil War. It could be described as a story of the tragedies […]
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The Time of the Doves by Mercé Rodoreda is definitely a heart-wrenching book, and challenging to read at times (well, I mean basically all of the time). There is little to be happy about in this book, and the times that are happy, you can probably count on two hands. Nevertheless, I think that the […]
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