Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. I’m breaking the fourth wall again for these last two blog posts—this one on Love Me Tender and the upcoming Conclusions post. I think it lets me say a little more than when I’m playing at the wood…
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Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. I’m breaking the fourth wall again for these last two blog posts—this one on Love Me Tender and the upcoming Conclusions post. I think it lets me say a little more than when I’m playing at the wood…
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Immediately, the writing of this book surprised me（´∇｀”）I didn’t know it was written recently, so the short, punchy sentences were not what I expected. Still, despite how seemingly to-the-point and emotionless the sentences were, the overall raw feeling of this book made it so that it took a bit more effort for me to read, […]
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To be completely honest, the title of this book absolutely made me go back and listen to the Elvis song by the same name. That was on loop during this book. But that’s a side tangent. In all honesty, at the start of this book I didn’t love the fact that it was in first […]
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I actually quite liked this novel and I think it has a lot of things to unpack! For some reason, it was one of the reads that really got me comfy (I’m talking about a cup of tea, snuggled into bed, the whole combo). Gradually over the course, I think I made time to read […]
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Among the three girls, Ramla’s story was the most interesting one to me. The relationship between she and her father made me think of the relationship between Lila and Lila’s father in In My Brilliant Friend. The blog will discuss the role of family in Impatient, exploring how does it appear as caring and as […]
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To start, this is definitely one of the novels that I struggled with the most this term. It had a completely different and unique take on literature. Normally, I like to write my blog post before I watch the lecture or conversation video, as a way to showcase my own perspectives when it is still […]
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Well, The Book of Chameleons is not actually about chameleons. I expected this because none of the books we have read in this class have been about the literal meaning of their titles. As I read new books for this class, I try my best to identify the underlying themes. For instance, when I was […]
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Hi blog!! Last week was my week off from reading for this class, and it was both weird and relaxing. Weird because I got used to reading a whole book every weekend, and relaxing because I had 3 midterms the week before and my Latin 301 midterm last Friday, so my brain desperately needed the […]
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I just finished reading ‘The Lover’ and I think I’m realizing that I don’t like French books. They are all so wishy washy and dreamy and so hard to follow. I was so confused the whole time reading this book. It felt like the narrator’s stream of consciousness but everything was fragmented and we would go from talking about her…
