For this weeks book, I read The Old Gringo, by Carlos Fuentes. To be honest with you, I found this book to be a little bit confusing, but for a few different reasons. At the beginning of my reading, I found the old gringo’s motivation to be a bit strange; he has come to Mexico […]
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For a book that is essentially about nothing (aptly named “Nada”), I found Laforet’s book a delight to read and struggled to put it down once I picked it up. It is about nothing in that it really seems to just be a collection of memories, not unlike some of the other books we’ve read […]
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