“This novel tells a true story. It involves a minor case, alrady forgotten among police chronicles […]” (204) When I started to read the book, being informed that it is a hard-boiled style thriller, I was really excited. I personally like the thriller, and heist movies (not the book, sorry to say). As I expected, […]
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Money to Burn is a book based on crime specifically that of robbing money. But what do they do with this money at the end? Burn it. Why? The answer is based on the reader’s understanding of the book. My understanding of why they would plan a heist, so systematically with no errors, and instead […]
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For this week’s blog post, I read the novel “The Lover” by Marguerite Duras. To start, I feel as if I have many thoughts and opinions on this book but in some sense do not know how to articulate them as there is a lot to say. So, I am going to start from the […]
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By far the shortest and most uncomfortable read at this point in the semester, The Lover by Marguerite Duras is a novel about the clandestine relationship between a 27-year-old man and a 15-year-old girl. The prose in this book is beautifully written, as an autobiography with Duras recalling her time in Saigon. She captures the […]
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I did not expect going into this novel, for it to be an interactive book, involving us as readers in the story. Also going into the book, I didn’t know what role we would play in the story as the writer of the book would continuously tell us what kind of reader we should be, […]
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Starting with “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler” by Italo Calvino is like going on an exhilarating literary rollercoaster that defies conventional narrative assumptions. Calvino transforms readers from passive spectators into active players within a multi-layered story, making this novel more than just a book. It’s an immersive experience. The novel’s unique capacity to […]
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Hello everyone and happy Tuesday! this week I have decided to do something different than usual and structure my weekly blog post as a read-along with me. Here are my thoughts as I read If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino: Check-in #1: I am on page 75 and going strong. So […]
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“I’m beginning to read Italo Calvino’s new novel!” (3) If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller was definitely a novel with a different story structure. It started with a man suggesting a perfect posture to read a book, and started the story. However, the story suddenly cut off — literally, cut off — as the […]
For this week’s blog post I read the novel “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller” by Italo Calvino. At first, while I started to read this novel I was a bit confused as to what was going on as a new story would emerge while trying to finish a chapter. This is the first […]
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The narrative perspective of this book was completely unexpected to me, and this is the first time I’ve read a book where the author narrates from a second-person point of view, which definitely gave me a very strong gateway to connect with the author. This was a very new and creative reading experience for me […]
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