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I’m Just A Girl – My Brilliant Friend

“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.” (Alcott, Little Women) A wearying message arrives to Elena: Her friend has vanished. Yet, […]

Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with communism, duality, education, Feminism, girlhood, life, poverty, society, Womanhood

The Hour of the Star: REST IN POWER MACABEA

Is a girl not allowed to like Coke in peace??? Is a girl not allowed to have some blood on her underwear??? Why did she have to die???? As much as the plot and writing of this book pained me to read, I actually enjoyed it a lot this week, and that is not because […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with bloodonunderwear<3, death, Feminism, life

Week of “The Hour of the Star”

This week’s reading was “The Hour of the Star” by Clarice Lispector, this read was very unique, despite it being a relatively shorter book with only around 70 pages, the story and the characters within the book were very enjoyable to read. Not only that but the themes of feminism and poverty through the eyes […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with education, Feminism, poverty

The Hour of the Star (Week 8)

I am so excited for this week! I had actually already read this novel when I took a Latin American literature class with Jon last year and since then, I’ve basically forced a lot of my friends and family to read it. It’s one of my favourite books and I…

Posted in Blogs, Lispector | Tagged with Feminism, poverty

The Hour of the Star (Week 8)

I am so excited for this week! I had actually already read this novel when I took a Latin American literature class with Jon last year and since then, I’ve basically forced a lot of my friends and family to read it. It’s one of my favourite books and I…

Posted in Blogs, Lispector | Tagged with Feminism, poverty

The Shrouded Woman, My Personal Horror Story

The Shrouded Woman by Maria Luisa Bombal constantly made me think of memories and death, honestly I didn’t enjoy this aspect of the story, let me tell you why. Often I worry about death and ending and spend a lot of my time fearing them, something I am trying to get over. I often worry […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Bombay, death, Fears, Feminism, memory, Mother Nature, nature

The Shrouded Woman – Better Luck Next Life

Where do we go after we die? I don’t know the answer to this question, but in The Shrouded Woman the narrator is sent into a limbo state between life and death, where her body is unable to move yet can still feel, and her consciousness is able to reflect on and come to terms […]

Posted in Blogs, Bombal | Tagged with afterlife, death, Feminism, Spanish, tragedy, week 4

Life Behind Tragedy — “The Shrouded Woman”

It was painful to read — not only about the difficulty of the book, but also the tragic feeling, maily from the love, I could look through Ana Maria’s life. As I follow Ana Maria’s life, from the “cowardly desertion” of Ricardo, her first love, lunatic jealousy of Silvia towards Maria Griselda, and marriage “out […]

Posted in Blogs, Bombal | Tagged with Feminism, women

Maybe Men Are the Problem ~ Exploring The Shrouded Woman

★ Trigger Warning: Mentions of suicide, assault, and death. “Why must a woman’s nature be such that a man has always to be the pivot of her life?” Bomal, pg. 226 María Luisa Bombal’s The Shrouded Woman absolutely broke my heart. When I had finished the book, I sat down for a second to just […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with death, Feminism, life, love, memory, tragedy, women

The Shrouded Woman

I enjoyed reading this book because, for the most part, it was the first I’ve read about a main character who was deceased and essentially reflected on her life. This book’s interesting aspect, in my opinion, is that we don’t lose sight of our main character’s perspective even after their death. Given that I knew […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with death, Feminism, love life, memory, woman

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