feb 22, 2026 I loved reading Time of the Doves. This book might be my favorite one so far, it was just beautiful. I loved it on a personal level, I related a lot to Natalia’s feelings while reading especially with my experience of growing up under political unrest and fleeing political prosecution to come […]
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I spent my week reading this book, sometimes on the bus, sometimes lying on the bed. I genuinely could not read this piece all at once, as the events and the plot twists made me feel bad for Silvio. I can hear distant voices, brilliant fireworks, but I am here alone, held down in my […]
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Hi! Welcome to my first blog for RMST 202. We read Combray by Proust this week. As the recorded lecture spends most of its time explaining what modernism is, I did not recognize that during my entire time reading it 🙁 When I was reading it, I found myself unconsciously skipping the paragraphs written under […]
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“The Hour of the Star” is written by Brazilian author Clarice Lispector. First of all, I love Clarice Lispector’s way of having a male be the narrator- that being Rodrigo, rather than it being herself. Lispector’s thinking and reasoning for every small detail from the title to the philosophy all over the book fascinated me […]
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Frankly, that was not the easiest read!! I found many of the descriptions were hard to follow and quickly lost my interest. A particularly difficult one for me was the seemingly neverending description of the church around p. 81 – 90. However, the parts that I DID really enjoy I decided to read closely, and […]
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