Hello everyone! I hope you guys have been enjoying the sun as much as I have. I actually took advantage of this weather and did most of my reading for this week’s book Money to Burn by Piligia, outside. What a change of pace this was from our usu…
Hello everyone! I hope you guys have been enjoying the sun as much as I have. I actually took advantage of this weather and did most of my reading for this week’s book Money to Burn by Piligia, outside. What a change of pace this was from our usu…
I think we all need to start off by giving a round of applause to Professor Jon Beasley-Murray for making this book a required reading because IT WAS FIREEEEEE. I know everyone is raving about how they loved this book and just the whole crime genre in general which I love to hear because crime, […]
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As the title suggests, the entire story revolves around stolen money and where that money ends up going.. Initially, I had a tough time understanding the story between the lines and had to restart the book twice. However, I was satisfied once the entire plot of the story started making sense to me. I loved […]
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Hello everyone and welcome back! This week’s novel had the exciting premise of a bank robbery gone wrong (ooooh ahhhh). Ricardo Piglia’s factual/fictional retelling of a bank robbery in Buenos Aires, Money to Burn started off so strong. I enjoyed the action-packed narrative interspersed with the backstories of the different characters. As the novel progressed, […]
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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…
Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with confusing, disturbing, Drugs, Gaucho, issues, killing, reader, Sex-obsessed
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…
Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with confusing, disturbing, Drugs, Gaucho, issues, killing, reader, Sex-obsessed
Where to even begin on this whirlwind of a novel. Ricardo Piglia’s Money to Burn was genuinely one of my favourite reads of the course thus far. I think this has to do with the writing style in part because … Continue reading →
Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with Drugs, love, money, thieves, violence, women
Ricardo Piglia’s novel, “Money to Burn,” is a refreshing change of literature that follows the escape route of a group of criminals as they speed to escape from Buenos Aires to Uruguay with the police tight on their heels. This book offered a different reading experience compared to the other readings in this course, it […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with crime, Drugs, escape, Heist, money, Police, sexuality, violence
This week’s reading of “Money to Burn” was certainly an interesting one. I can’t say I loved reading it. I personally would not classify this as a thriller, for the scariest part was how vulgar and gross the men were. It was not enjoyable to read because of their disgusting sex lives and their views […]
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