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Discussions from January 19, 2026

Posted in Arlt resources, Featured Articles and Videos | Tagged with anarchism, crime, judgement, morals, picaresque, redemption

A Whole Day of Arlt

I genuinely spent almost the entirety of yesterday reading Mad Toy by Roberto Arlt. To my surprise, I actually fairly enjoyed this piece of literature. However, one thing I struggled with was the number of characters that were introduced in the first couple pages. It normally takes me a lot of time to remember character […]

Posted in Arlt, Blogs | Tagged with class, crime, education, identity, money, power

Purge? – Death with Interruptions

Wow, we are almost at the end of all of the readings as I am sitting here at my desk writing a blog post on my second to last novel of the semester.  For this week’s reading, I chose to read “Death With Interruptions’ by José Sarmago. I chose this book for no particular reason […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with #purge, blog post, book review, crime, death, novel, romance

Money to Burn – i blame money

Money to Burn by Ricardo Piglia. This week’s novel was completely different than all the other ones I have read so far, I think it’s my first time reading a criminal book not watching a show about it. With heists and gun battles, social commentary and the criminal system as well as the complexity and […]

Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with cops, crime, criminal system, gay, justice system, society, thriller

"Money to Burn" – Ricardo Piglia

Hi everyone, this week’s book is Ricardo Piglia’s “Money to Burn”. Despite the description sounding interesting, I couldn’t really get into this book. The descriptions violence happening to random innocent people and the various drugs Dorda uses just d…

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with crime, death, sexuality

"Money to Burn" – Ricardo Piglia

Hi everyone, this week’s book is Ricardo Piglia’s “Money to Burn”. Despite the description sounding interesting, I couldn’t really get into this book. The descriptions violence happening to random innocent people and the various drugs Dorda uses just d…

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with crime, death, sexuality

Money to burn – Ricardo Piglia

    I would give this book a 3/10.  I don’t usually like crime/thriller or action books. I also really didn’t like that it was a true story because the descriptions of the deaths were definitely creeping me out to be honest. An…

Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with burning money, crime, thriller

Money to burn – Ricardo Piglia

    I would give this book a 3/10.  I don’t usually like crime/thriller or action books. I also really didn’t like that it was a true story because the descriptions of the deaths were definitely creeping me out to be honest. An…

Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with burning money, crime, thriller

Thoughts on Money to Burn

Last week I remember including in my blog that as the books got more modern, they were getting easier to understand. I think I have to take back that statement for this week’s book. Although the actual language used in the book is more like the action/adventure novels I used to binge, the jumps in … Continue reading Thoughts on Money to Burn

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with crime, reflection

my girlfriend is mad at me for reading this book.

A whole lot of sex and rape. This has been so far one of my favourite novels to read. I think this is due to my love for true crime, and psychology. My passion for true crime was satisfied through the exciting pursuit of the robbers by Silva. Additionally, the use of evidence in police […]

Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with class, Corruption, crime, fiction, love, non-fiction, politics, sex, trauma

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