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 […]
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LAST BOOK LETS GOOOO!!!! This has been a wild ride. I’d like to thank my classmates, teachers, and TAs for their hard work and for reading so many blogposts and also to us for reading the books and for writing all the blog posts. Good job all. We made it. Also this class significantly contributed […]
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The reading this week, Money to Burn, is one of the longer readings so far in the course (at around 200 pages which is still relatively short if I’m recalling back to Span312 where we once read a 400+ page book). However, because it its style of writing, reading the book felt a lot swifter […]
In the realm of crime fiction, Ricardo Piglia’s “Money to Burn” stands out as a gripping narrative that transcends the boundaries of the genre. The novel reconstructs the infamous heist that took place over the span of September to November 1965, where an armed gang intercepted a van transporting a staggering sum of over $7,000,000 […]
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Ricardo Piglia’s “Money to Burn,” rooted in the true story of a meticulously planned heist in Buenos Aires, transcends its crime-story boundaries to delve into the depths of capitalism, patriarchy, and the fragile nature of human relationships. It is a true story based on a heist executed by a group of criminals who manage to […]
Piglia, Ricardo’s “Money to Burn” was a book that was quite interesting to read for me. In comparison to the other books in this course I felt the central plot and story reflected something different. This story follows the life of thieves who rob a central bank, town, which results in a standoff between the gang and police officers, it is one of violence and crime. I found this book easy to read and follow along which made it much easier to understand. As the story continued I felt drawn…read more
Hello everyone and welcome back! This week’s novel had the exciting premise of a bank robbery gone wrong (ooooh ahhhh). Ricardo Piglia’s factual/fictional retelling of a bank robbery in Buenos Aires, Money to Burn started off so strong. I enjoyed the action-packed narrative interspersed with the backstories of the different characters. As the novel progressed, […]
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Hello everyone, when I read Ricardo Piglia’s “Money to Burn” it was, in my opinion, a compelling story about mystery, deceit, and the complex dynamics of power. Likewise, I discovered that this novel always brought to mind Arlt’s Mad Toy, which we had read at the start of the term. The characters are from comparable […]
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Luca Guadagnino, I have your next movie idea king! I actually really liked this novel. It was fast-paced, interesting and genuinely made me go WTF several times. I fully forgot that what I was reading was based on a true story, because everything about it felt like a movie. But even with the genre of […]
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Trigger warning: Mentions of Sexual Exploitation and Crime Art work by Kristina Timofeeva Did you see what I did with the title 😏 ????? Cause the book had talk of drugs and the experience of reading it was…well..almost a surreal high?????? No, just me? ok… Money is just the same as drugs: what’s fundamental is […]
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