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Matryoshka Dolls but its stories and real people ?!

Hi everyone!!  I hope you had a great long weekend 🙂 This weekend was actually my brother’s birthday so I went with him and a few of my friends to Whistler to celebrate. Normally I have read most of our books as a PDF on my ipad, but in honour of this being our LAST […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Faces in the Crowd, ghosts, stories, Valeria Luiselli, week 12

Fleabag in the Crowd

“I can no longer read properly” (118) I feel like this class has changed the way I read. I am not sure how, but I definitely think if you had handed me this book a few months ago, I may have just given up. So, perhaps our professor was correct in his presumption that the […]

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we made it to the end but i’m still a little lost? – Faces in the Crowd

Hi everyone! Welcome back to our final week of reading! To end us off, I decided to read ‘Faces in the Crowd’ by Valeria Luiselli. Unfortunately, I can’t necessarily say that I loved this book, which is too bad because I was really hoping to end on a fun note. However, I still found parts […]

Posted in Blogs, Luiselli | Tagged with faces, ghosts, the end

We’ve been tricked! “Faces in the Crowd” a 3-in-1 Book

At last, we have arrived at our last book of the semester (summer is near we can do it!) and what a way to end! ‘Faces in the Crowd’ by Valeria Luiselli was an interesting read, it had many layers of story-telling that was only made (semi) clear to me after I had watch the […]

Posted in Blogs, Luiselli | Tagged with 3-in-1 shampoo, confusing, ghosts, memory, people

Reflection : Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli

 I don’t want to say I disliked this book as it would make it seem like I can’t recognize or understand innovative/experimental literature (For the record I cannot) but I have mixed feelings about this one. There were multiple things I did like ab…

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with ghosts, Gilberto Owen, melancholy, New York, Philadelphia

Reflection : Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli

 I don’t want to say I disliked this book as it would make it seem like I can’t recognize or understand innovative/experimental literature (For the record I cannot) but I have mixed feelings about this one. There were multiple things I did like ab…

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with ghosts, Gilberto Owen, melancholy, New York, Philadelphia

faces in the crowd

This novel was different from the ones we have read before. The narration starts off with a women who is researching a poet. She starts obsessing over him in an almost unhealthy way and creating a life for him. She immerses herself in what she observes to be his life and creates her own voice […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Faces in the Crowd, ghosts, poets

Week XII – Confused? Yes. Entertained? Highly.

Here we are, (technically) my last blog post EVER for RMST 202. I know we still have our conclusion blog posts to write, but this is the last blog post on the last book of the course. Now, THAT is a milestone to celebrate, but it’s very bittersweet. I feel like I say this every […]

Posted in Blogs, Luiselli | Tagged with ghosts, reality, time

Faces in the Crowd: possibly four books for the price of one!

I can’t believe this was the last book of the class! Honestly, I didn’t enjoy reading it that much. I felt confused and disoriented. It wasn’t until the day after I finished it and watched the lecture video and read other people’s blog posts that I realized I actually did like it. This book is […]

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