Hi Everyone! Last book of the semester, congrats to everyone for almost making it to the end! This week I read My Brilliant Friend written by Elena Ferrante. I think this book lands in my top 3, along with Arlt for sure. This book discusses themes of friendship, class, poverty, love, relationships. It is truly […]
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Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli depicts a woman living in Mexico City with her husband and children, writing a novel about a woman living in New York City. It is not clear whether this story is the past life of the writer, or if these memories are just fictitious creations. Just like the […]
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“Faces in the Crowd” was undoubtedly one of the most challenging books I have ever read in this class. This novel requires immense attention and sophistication as the narrator constantly switches back and forth from the perspective of the narrator to Gilberto Owen, a Mexican poet who is featured mostly in the latter half of […]
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Hey everyone! Im super excited to discuss this week’s reading, “The Book of Chameleons” by Jose Eduardo Agualusa! Immediately my mind goes to the movie Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind. With Ariana Grande’s album coming out and everything, I have been thinking about that movie a lot and how interesting the concept is. A […]
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Money to Burn by Ricardo Piglia has been my favourite book we have read in this class. To be honest I wasn’t expecting to like an Argentina-based gang robbery as much as I did but for whatever reason I found this book a much easier read than any others. Most of the time I can […]
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Hi everyone! This week we read Money to Burn by Piglia. To start this book consistently reminded me of Mad Toy by Arlt that we read at the beginning of the term. It’s set in the same place, and the characters come from a similar socioeconomic backgrounds. To be honest I think I enjoyed Mad […]
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The Lover by Marguerite Duras. I cannot say I enjoyed reading this week’s novel as much as I thought I would. Maybe because it was confusing, with the change of perspectives and no clear chronological timeline throughout the novel but with different paragraphs mentioning different events or people in the girl’s life. One page would […]
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Hello everyone! This weeks book is The Lover by Marguerite Duras, set during the French colonial occupation of south east Asia. It is an autobiographical story of Duras’ family’s struggles with death and poverty, as well as her affair with “the l…
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Hello everyone! This weeks book is The Lover by Marguerite Duras, set during the French colonial occupation of south east Asia. It is an autobiographical story of Duras’ family’s struggles with death and poverty, as well as her affair with “the l…
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THEY DON’T NEED THERAPY, THEY NEED JAIL TIME. Warning: This book is so utterly explicit that my blog will have to be, so I am sorry if this is a bit much. I’m 100% sure this relationship is simply sexual. Maybe I’m just a little conservative, but there is simply no excuse to make one […]
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