Hello everybody- the book this week was Luiselli’s “Faces in a crowd”, which I don’t even really know how to describe the plot…think ghosts but not really, a wife with a husband and 2 children but not really, and a girl working in a publishing firm as a translator that’s a bit obsessed with this […]
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 […]
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Wow we’ve finally made it to the last book of this semester. I decided to read “Faces in the Crowd” by Valeria Luiselli for this week because I saw it was a lot shorter compared to the other book this week, and I felt I’d be really busy with finals coming up. I’m glad I […]
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Hi, everyone. Welcome to my week 12 blog. How was everyone’s weekend? Time flies so fast. This week’s blog is also the last book I read this semester. I have to say that this course is really a wonderful course that allows me to read a lot of mean…
Hi, everyone. Welcome to my week 12 blog. How was everyone’s weekend? Time flies so fast. This week’s blog is also the last book I read this semester. I have to say that this course is really a wonderful course that allows me to read a lot of mean…
Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli depicts a woman living in Mexico City with her husband and children, writing a novel about a woman living in New York City. It is not clear whether this story is the past life of the writer, or if these memories are just fictitious creations. Just like the […]
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Hello everyone! As we are soon approaching the end of the semester it is truly crazy to see how fast it has all gone. This course taught me so much about myself as a reader and pushed me to move past my comfort zone with reading to experience texts that I would have maybe never picked for myself. As we move to our last book I can say I did not enjoy reading but I am starting to open up to it. This week’s book “Faces in the Crowd” by…read more
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With this being the last week of reading for this course, I’ve read 11 books throughout this which greatly surprised me since I am not an avid reader in any way and still the books here some I found fairly interesting. Back to this week’s reading, Valeria Luiselli’s novel “Faces in the Crowd” offers an […]
‘Faces in the Crowd’ by Valeria Luiselli is a strange novel about a young Mexican woman living in New York who becomes obsessed with the Mexican poet Gilberto Owen’s life. This novel is something very different than what I have read before. To be honest, I did not like this novel because it was a […]
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Valeria Luisell’s novel, “Faces in the Crowd,” was intricately written from the perspective of two different narrators originating from different cities and periods. The author didn’t introduce nor warn the readers of the back-and-fourth narration occurring throughout the story, so I was very confused about the events transpiring until more than halfway through the book. […]
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