A World of Difference
Questions on The Society of Reluctant Dreamers
I was not expecting to like Soldiers of Salamis as much as I did but I was pleasantly surprised. In all honesty, I don’t know much about the Spanish Civil War so I enjoyed that this book explained the political/social context of Spain in the 1930s, making it a little easier to understand. At times, I […]
Jose Saramago, Death with Interruptions
… I think this is one of those books where I was interested the whole time, but also never fully trusted what I was reading. Which I think was on purpose? The novel felt less like reading a normal novel and more like following someone’s obsession in real time. The narration kept pulling me in … Continue reading salami
A conversation with Bécquer Seguín
Hi blog!! Last week was my week off from reading for this class, and it was both weird and relaxing. Weird because I got used to reading a whole book every weekend, and relaxing because I had 3 midterms the week before and my Latin 301 midterm last Friday, so my brain desperately needed the […]
Wowie, wowie, wowie! That’s what I’m thinking right now at approximately 21.45, and I’m also grinning like a mad woman because I really enjoyed this book! Despite the fact that I typically do not enjoy when the narration stays on the same topic for a long time, I was very enticed by this book. The […]
You’re searching for something unknown, and so you end up falling into despair. (p. 90) What if we were meant to live a different life than what others made us out to be? I felt this question appear in my head after this quote. This book began like it was written by Dostoyevsky- I mean, it was overwhelmingly difficult to…
Piglia must have done extensive research to complete this book, especially publishing it 12 years after the robbery happened. However, this impacted my engagement while reading. At times, I felt like the monologue was saying: “This happened at this time, this happened here, this happened there…” and recaptured my attention with the details of the […]
