I was looking forwards to reading this book and it did not let me down! Although it was a bit longer than the other books, it had me really invested in it for almost all of it. I liked it right from the start when it lays out all of the characters in the narrator […]
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with My brilliant friend
For starters… there were once again a lot of characters in this novel! So I’m extremely grateful to Ferrante for including an index of characters at the very beginning. It was very much appreciated for someone like me, who struggles with remembering characters – especially side characters that are only mentioned a handful of times […]
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with friendship, My brilliant friend
I’ve never been so tense yet invested while reading a book. Elena and Lila’s friendship was stressful to the point I was holding my breath in for the most of it. The starting scene where Elena says, “she wanted to vanish; she wanted every one of her cells to disappear, nothing of her ever to be found” (pg 20) and the title, “my brilliant friend” didn’t brace me for what was about […]
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with friendship, jealousy, My brilliant friend, RMST 202, survival
I picked this book because I saw that one of the main themes was friendship and recently I’d been thinking about friendship a lot and my own relationships with some of my friends and this was very interesting to read.I feel like ever since I was a litt…
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with education, friendships, jealousy, My brilliant friend
I picked this book because I saw that one of the main themes was friendship and recently I’d been thinking about friendship a lot and my own relationships with some of my friends and this was very interesting to read.I feel like ever since I was a litt…
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with education, friendships, jealousy, My brilliant friend
This was the last book I’ve had to read for class, and I can honestly say this barely feels like homework anymore. I might even read the other books in this series. This blog was written on the beach, next to my bestest friends, with none of whom I have a relationship like Lenu and […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with comparison, Envy, My brilliant friend
I’m not sure where to begin with this one as well. I started every blog I’ve written with a line or two about how my struggle with reading as a habit it going so it feels right to do the same for the last blog I’m writing in this course. I feel like with every […]
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with My brilliant friend
It’s here! The last blog post of the semester! Thank you, dear reader, for reading all of my little blog posts. I hope you enjoyed my analysis and shared some similar thoughts, or thought differently about sections after reading my thoughts. I am honestly going to miss this blog, it was very fun to design […]
Posted in Blogs, Conclusion | Tagged with book, book-blog, books, class, girlhood, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, love, memory, misogyny, Money to Burn, My brilliant friend, narrative, novel, reading, the end, Time of the Doves
Hello! It is really weird to be at the end of the semester as it has felt really short, especially in regards to this class. This is my final conclusion to this class, but first I want to thank everyone in the class for making amazing blogs. I also want to thank all the people […]
Posted in Blogs, Conclusion | Tagged with coming of age, Money to Burn, My brilliant friend, nada, Themes, violence
The book that I chose to read this week was “My Brilliant Friend” by Elena Ferrante. I think I chose this book in the beginning of the semester because it sounded familiar and now I know why – there’s a TV Show adaptation on Crave! Never watched it but now I might have to as […]
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