I can’t believe we’ve made it to the end! At the beginning of this course, I remember looking at the list of novels and wondering how they would shape my understanding of the “romance world.” Now that I’ve experienced such a diverse range of texts, I f…
Posted in Blogs, Conclusion | Tagged with ambiguity, interpretation, manipulation, memory
I can’t believe we’ve made it to the end! At the beginning of this course, I remember looking at the list of novels and wondering how they would shape my understanding of the “romance world.” Now that I’ve experienced such a diverse range of texts, I f…
Posted in Blogs, Conclusion | Tagged with ambiguity, interpretation, manipulation, memory
Hey guys… we officially made it to the end and I’m feeling a little emotional about it. This class made me get back into reading. As a kid and even a teenager I would read to escape and find my own little universe… then it changed, I started only reading for school, which completely changed […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with identity, loved this class, memory, story
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 […]
Posted in Blogs, Debre | Tagged with family, life, memory, Men still suck, motherhood
The main thing I learned from this book is that “being a dude” is more like a pattern of behavior rather than a biological sex. When I was reading the parts where she calls the women as “number 1” and “number 2,” I felt quite uncomfortable. At first, I thought it was because the content […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Constance Debré, Dating, Lowkey toxic, memory, parenting, Stud
This story is honestly more along the lines of what I was expecting based on the title than some of the others. It was also rather relatable in some ways, regarding trying to balance work, life, family, and more. The young mother tries to balance her role as an author with her own parenting obligation, […]
Posted in Blogs, Luiselli | Tagged with Another failed marriage, Faces in the Crowd, freedom, memory
Sorry if I posted it twice. Not sure if it posted so I’m doing it again. Hellooooo I know the end of the semester is coming up soon but on my little reader app I always rate all these books that we read in class so this one I’m rating a 7/10, a little confusing […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with culture, identity, memory
I really enjoyed reading My Brilliant Friend, it felt like such an easy book to understand, especially compared some of the books we’ve been reading. I was a little worried when I was reading the character index in the beginning. It just kept going and going. But once I started reading, it all made sense. I liked how Ferrante would…
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with childhood, memory
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 […]
Posted in Blogs, Luiselli | Tagged with family, memory, perspective, writing
Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd
Posted in Lecture Videos, Luiselli lecture | Tagged with C21st, fragmention, gender, memory, Mexico, modernity, space, time, translation, transport, writing