Hello everyone! I hope you’ve all had a great week because I sure have. As I write this post, I’m on day 12 of my Australian trip! Right now, I’m sitting on my hotel room bed in Surfer’s Paradise on the Gold Coast, but I want to recap my time spent in Brisbane. As someone […]
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“Faces in the Crowd” by Valeria Luiselli was definitely not an ordinary novel. Its complex style of writing made it very hard to find meaning through the novel, which made me kind of sad because this is the last reading and I was expecting a lot from it. Luiselli deftly weaves a fragmented and profound […]
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Hello everybody- the book this week was Luiselli’s “Faces in a crowd”, which I don’t even really know how to describe the plot…think ghosts but not really, a wife with a husband and 2 children but not really, and a girl working in a publishing firm as a translator that’s a bit obsessed with this […]
In this work with autobiographical overtones, Luiselli mainly tells three stories: that of a woman novelist working on a work memorializing her youth in the midst of a mildly trivial domestic life; that of a woman living in New York City years ago who was obsessed with publishing a collection of poems by the Mexican […]
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Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli depicts a woman living in Mexico City with her husband and children, writing a novel about a woman living in New York City. It is not clear whether this story is the past life of the writer, or if these memories are just fictitious creations. Just like the […]
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Welcome to the last book review of the semester! This week I read My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, and I am so happy this was the last book. It is a coming-of-age book (so on brand for this class) about two girls in a poor neighbourhood in Naples. The story starts with an older […]
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With this being the 9th and final book I am reading for this course, it feels very melancholy. As I am not a big fan of reading books in general, having read a book almost every week for this term feels like a major accomplishment. In addition, some of…
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With this being the 9th and final book I am reading for this course, it feels very melancholy. As I am not a big fan of reading books in general, having read a book almost every week for this term feels like a major accomplishment. In addition, some of…
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Hi everyone! This week I read “The Book of Chameleons” by José Eduardo Agualusa. I am going to be very honest and say that I did not enjoy this book, mainly because I found it difficult to follow and mildly uninteresting. However, this book discusses important themes of identity, truth and historical impact. It also […]
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showing how fragile our system is. One thing goes awry, and everything comes toppling down. Albeit, no one dying anymore is not something we could have planned for, but it is something the government and people now have to figure out. Saramago questions our societal systems by exploring their improbability. As you may have guessed, […]
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