Hi, fellow readers,This is the last obligatory book we must read, and we are almost at the end of this term! We were to read “Money to Burn” by Ricardo Piglia this week. I was not expecting this book to be as disturbing as it was. This is the mos…
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Starting with “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler” by Italo Calvino is like going on an exhilarating literary rollercoaster that defies conventional narrative assumptions. Calvino transforms readers from passive spectators into active players within a multi-layered story, making this novel more than just a book. It’s an immersive experience. The novel’s unique capacity to […]
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Hi, Everyone. I hope you are all doing well. When I started this novel, I thought it would be just an ordinary story. As I started reading it, I thought it might be about this man who gets on a train on a winter’s night and stops at places w…
Posted in Blogs, Calvino | Tagged with captivating, confusing, destroyed books, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Lortaria, Ludmilla, Morana, pattern, reader
Hi, Everyone. I hope you are all doing well. When I started this novel, I thought it would be just an ordinary story. As I started reading it, I thought it might be about this man who gets on a train on a winter’s night and stops at places w…
Posted in Blogs, Calvino | Tagged with captivating, confusing, destroyed books, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Lortaria, Ludmilla, Morana, pattern, reader
Well…this one was interesting. I usually write blog posts a lot earlier because I feel pretty inspired after reading a book…but this week was different. I’ve delayed writing this because quite frankly I’ve been left a bit speechless and don’t know …
Posted in Blogs, Moravia | Tagged with confusing, weird, why
Well…this one was interesting. I usually write blog posts a lot earlier because I feel pretty inspired after reading a book…but this week was different. I’ve delayed writing this because quite frankly I’ve been left a bit speechless and don’t know …
Posted in Blogs, Moravia | Tagged with confusing, weird, why
I must say, from the beginning, I didn’t particularly enjoy reading this novel. Proust’s run-on sentences with extreme descriptions left me in a bit of a dreary state with my attention drifting in and out of the words. However, considering how th…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with confusing, descriptive, time, week 2
I must say, from the beginning, I didn’t particularly enjoy reading this novel. Proust’s run-on sentences with extreme descriptions left me in a bit of a dreary state with my attention drifting in and out of the words. However, considering how th…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with confusing, descriptive, time, week 2
Manea, The Trenchcoat I do not have much to say about this novel as I felt lost throughout the whole book. It might be something that I missed at the start of the reading which then made me be lost through the reading but I just found it too confusing. I got lost between all […]
Perec W or the memory of childhood. I struggle reading this book and not specifically because of translation or aspects like that which has been the case with other books. I struggled because the book is a mix of two different stories which go back and forward and I believe this makes the book much […]
