Confusing. Figuring things out not by their form but by the convoluted trails of meaning formed by dense sentences, juxtaposing verses, and half-conscious dreams. This book is a forest of question marks. “I am no puzzle-maker, no wizard of chess, no ph…
Posted in Blogs, Breton | Tagged with absurdity, Home, identity, life, literature, love, nadja, reality, Surrealism
When I read the starting section of combray, I felt as if I drifted out of consciousness. It was less about just reading and following a story. It was more about being immersed in the words of the narrator. From the beginning everything felt very unstable with the room blurring into another and time slipping […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with books, fiction, literature, marcel proust, Uncategorized, writing
And here comes the last week of classes of my first year. RMST 202 just may be one of my favorite classes I’ve taken this year, and it was such an eye-opening experience about university level classes in general. I’m not sure if it will be the same in the future for my remaining three […]
Posted in Blogs, Conclusion | Tagged with im emotional, literature, reading, Uncategorized
Welp, just like that it’s almost all over. The blogs, this course, and my bachelors degree! Taking this course in my penultimate semester of my undergraduate degree was both a pleasure and an eye-opener. Being able to choose how much I would like apply myself to this course without all the ambiguity around grading, was […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Deacon, Fin, literature, Signing off
Hello everyone! This semester went by a lot faster than the winter semester, and it brought back my long-lost hobby of reading every evening. I enjoyed the structure and flexibility of this course, it allowed me to choose how many books I wanted to read this semester and provided me with readings that I would’ve […]
Posted in Blogs, Conclusion | Tagged with goodbye, literature
And with this blog post I bid a tearful goodbye! This is a class I genuinely fell so so in love with. I loved taking time out of my very busy day to sit down and read. What I find adorable is that my first blog post was so proper but if you read my …
Posted in Blogs, Conclusion | Tagged with I have no finals (?), Last week of class, literature, romance languages, We're done bitches
I literally cannot believe I read 11 books for this class. I was never a big fan of literature classes back in high school and surprisingly this course turned out to be one of my favourite ones this semester. So many times throughout the semester I just wanted to break my contract because I just […]
Posted in Blogs, Conclusion | Tagged with books, literature, summer
Faces in the crowd by . I don’t even know yet.. I wouldn’t say it wasn’t an enjoyable novel but it was very hard to read, or to understand. It was fine during the first part, when the narrator was describing about her life in New York city, all the interesting characters and young […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Characters, confusing, fiction, literature, obsession
In Valeria Luiselli’s “Faces in the Crowd,” the reader is taken into a world in which the lines between truth and fiction, past and present, are not just mixed, they are purposely hidden. This makes me think about what it means to tell a story and who we are. The investigation of the concept of […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with books, fiction, I think it's a novel written in her mid-life crisis, kind of crazy, literature, lost, the author needs some serious help
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 […]
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with book review, book-reviews, books, childhood, family, fiction, friendship, Italy, literature, love, money, socioeconomic status
