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 […]
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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 […]
Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with crime, politics, reality, relationships
Why is this book called the lover??? I mean I get ‘why’ but I definitely don’t like why. Every instance this man had with protagonist was just uncomfortable to the highest degree. Even if I tried to situate myself with context or go with the flow of the story, I wasn’t at ease reading any […]
Posted in Blogs, Duras | Tagged with class, money, relationships, reminiscing, RMST 202
To be honest, I think this is one of the books so far that I actually did not particularly enjoy reading. I just could not get over the fact that the age gap between the two characters was 12 years. There was a lingering discomfort and I really could not get myself to immerse myself […]
Posted in Blogs, Duras | Tagged with class, family, memory, money, relationships
Question: How does this book view love and control, and how are they related?
-LS
Posted in Blogs, Rodoreda | Tagged with freedom, oppression, relationships, unhappy marriage
Hello…. Usually when writing my blogs I go back and look at my notes from while I was reading. This time… I see there is a LOT of anger. Which is actually pretty normal for me, but wow. So this blog is basically a running list of all the times Quimet pissed me off. plus … Continue reading DOVES
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I loved this novel. It made me feel a lot of things. From the opening alone I was quite captivated by it. Natalia’s narration feels so raw and direct. Even when describing something small, it felt like it carried so much weight with it. I can’t really put it into words. Immediately Quimet pissed me […]
Posted in Blogs, Rodoreda | Tagged with gender, relationships
This is my favorite novel so far! I really like how the story is told in a straightforward way, without constantly jumping back and forth between the past and the present. The narration feels simple, but also very comfortable to read, just like the protagonist Natalia herself. She is an ordinary woman, but she feels […]
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To be honest, I am not quite sure what to think of The Time of the Doves. On one hand, I found it to be quite a long read and it was hard to pinpoint what was happening in some parts because I would lose focus. Yet, I still think it was an interesting read. […]
Posted in Blogs, Rodoreda | Tagged with Belonging, family, love, power, relationships
A lively swing of events rolls into place at the beginning of the novel, full of musical brilliance, unknown voices, and objects scattered across empty spaces. This is a book of wavering stars. And in this midst of it all there is a shadow of contempla…
Posted in Blogs, Rodoreda | Tagged with childhood, death, family, Home, life, literature, love, memories, poverty, reality, reflection, relationships, The Time of The Doves, war
