You’re searching for something unknown, and so you end up falling into despair. (p. 90) What if we were meant to live a different life than what others made us out to be? I felt this question appear in my head after this quote. This book began like it was written by Dostoyevsky- I mean, it was overwhelmingly difficult to…
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After finishing One Hundred Years of Solitude, I was left amazed at how much Garcia Marquez was able to fit into the novel. Not only where there seven generations packed into this book, but each generation had meaning and characterization, and there was plot points surrounding all the characters we meant. Of course, the importance […]
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This week I read The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes. The story is the memory of Harriet Winslow, an American school teacher who finds herself in the middle of the Mexican revolution. She meets a group of revolutionaries led by … Continue reading →
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