I really enjoyed this book and I wish I had more time to spend reading and enjoying it. I found there to be a lot of different dimensions within it, such as the relationships and dynamics between the girls and the other characters, the opposing classes, the use of language and education, the violence, the […]
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with childhood, class, death, education, family, memory, modernism, violence
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 […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Catalan, class, development, doves, Femininity, gender, growth, merce Rodoreda, narrator, Natalia, Quimet, reflection, regret, rmst202, sadness, self-discovery, Spain, The Time of The Doves, war, Weekly Book Blog
I chose The Time of the Doves by Mercè Rodoreda for this week’s text. I found this book really interesting to read from Natalia’s perspective. I felt very sympathetic towards her because she was trapped in these circumstances with no way of escapi…
Posted in Blogs, Rodoreda | Tagged with class, family, relationships, war
I chose The Time of the Doves by Mercè Rodoreda for this week’s text. I found this book really interesting to read from Natalia’s perspective. I felt very sympathetic towards her because she was trapped in these circumstances with no way of escapi…
Posted in Blogs, Rodoreda | Tagged with class, family, relationships, war
This book was weird. When I started reading it I enjoyed it, I liked GH’s narration and felt the plot would be somewhat entertaining to follow. The way she described cleaning and “arranging” her home now that her maid had quit, the way she described the immaculate design of the room that had previously been […]
Posted in Blogs, Lispector | Tagged with class, death, Disorganization, literature, Mania, perception, Symbolism
Okay, so I finished reading Agostino, and I would definitely say that I have some mixed feelings about this novel (to say the least). It is absolutely a novel about coming of age, class, self-discovery, but has some other themes such as love, lust, brutality, and low-key incest. I particularly enjoyed how it was written; […]
Posted in Blogs, Moravia | Tagged with acceptance, beach, class, infatuation, Italy, jealousy, love, privilege, Weekly Book Blog
