Hi everyone, this week I read “Faces in the Crowd” by Valeria Luiselli for my final book of the course. This book might be my least favourite this semester. That’s not to say I hated it, but I missed a lot of what the story was trying to convey between…
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Hi everyone, this week I read “Faces in the Crowd” by Valeria Luiselli for my final book of the course. This book might be my least favourite this semester. That’s not to say I hated it, but I missed a lot of what the story was trying to convey between…
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This book was a bit of a shock to me. First I want to say I’m actually a fan of Luiselli. I’ve already read “Tell Me How it Ends” and “The Lost Children Archive” and loved them. However, this book was a big miss for me. I didn’t get what was goin…
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This book was a bit of a shock to me. First I want to say I’m actually a fan of Luiselli. I’ve already read “Tell Me How it Ends” and “The Lost Children Archive” and loved them. However, this book was a big miss for me. I didn’t get what was goin…
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Luiselli’s novel navigates the trials and tribulations of keeping her creativity alive while performing her motherly duties. She also explores just how blurred the lines between reality and imagination can become when one becomes obsessed with the…
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Luiselli’s novel navigates the trials and tribulations of keeping her creativity alive while performing her motherly duties. She also explores just how blurred the lines between reality and imagination can become when one becomes obsessed with the…
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Painting: A Face in the Crowd by Holly Warburton There are two types of people: those who just live and those who design their lives Pg. 12 Hello, lovely people! How are we holding up during this last stretch of the semester! This week’s novel, and final novel of the whole course, is Valeria Luisella’s […]
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“I know I need to generate a structure full of holes so that I can always find a place for myself on the page, inhabit it; I have to remember never to put in more than is necessary, never overlay, never furnish or adorn.” (Luiselli, 10) Describing a book that profoundly impacts you can feel […]
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The final book that I have read for this class, “Faces in the Crowd”, was one of the most confusing books I have read. Although I found it much easier to read because the writing incorporated more modern words, I finished the book not really grasping the whole concept. There were many different themes of […]
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This book gave me the biggest headache ever, but in a good way. I think. Multiple times throughout the book I thought to myself, either I’m an idiot or the author was on crack when she wrote this. It genuinely felt like I read 10 books in one sitting. The first half of this book […]
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