There are a lot of topics in this book that shook me to the core. What does it mean to be a woman? Moreover, a gay woman? Moreoverover a gay woman who’s a mother. Because of this book, I questioned my perception of love, whether I was seeing things through too much of a fantastical lens, whether I got love all…
Posted in Blogs, Debre | Tagged with cope, lies, liked, love, motherhood, sacrafice, sex
A horizontal novel, told vertically. A novel that has to be told from the outside in order to be read from within. I thought a lot about what this could have meant. Although I may not have fully deciphered it, I thought this sentence summarised the structure of this novel beautifully. The book made me question a lot of things;…
Posted in Blogs, Luiselli | Tagged with confused, liked, memories, motherhood, Multiplicity, Unhappiness, youth
You’re searching for something unknown, and so you end up falling into despair. (p. 90) What if we were meant to live a different life than what others made us out to be? I felt this question appear in my head after this quote. This book began like it was written by Dostoyevsky- I mean, it was overwhelmingly difficult to…
Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with crime, destiny, fate, liked, Misunderstood, politics, revolution
It took me longer to get through this novel, but as I slowly warmed up to the setting and the narrative, I became drawn in by Zobal’s world and character building. M’man Tine’s character, in particular, was what struck me the most. Her sacrifices and strict expectations since the time of raising Delia are what allowed the later generations of…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with class, education, hope, liked, racism, regret, sacrifice, Zobal
Hello again! For this blog I’m going blindly off of my instinctual interpretation and will watch the lecture after so that my rant is as pure to my thoughts as possible. (Because for some odd reason I felt strongly about this novel…) In honesty, I thought that the book could have begun in the second part of the novel. However,…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Absurd, girlboss, Insanity, liked, love, necessity, obsession
We did it! We reached the last week of the semester and completed our assigned books! I learned a lot about how I read, what kind of reader I am, and what books I enjoy and don’t enjoy. This is my second romance studies class; I took 201 in the first s…
Posted in Blogs, Conclusion | Tagged with blog posts, disliked, enjoyed, liked, reading, understanding
We did it! We reached the last week of the semester and completed our assigned books! I learned a lot about how I read, what kind of reader I am, and what books I enjoy and don’t enjoy. This is my second romance studies class; I took 201 in the first s…
Posted in Blogs, Conclusion | Tagged with blog posts, disliked, enjoyed, liked, reading, understanding
