Hello All, Thanks for reading my blog posts thus far. I had a lovely time in this class and I hope you all did too. This class for real saved me in its flexibility with being able to choose how many books we read. I loved being able to plan …
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Hello All, Thanks for reading my blog posts thus far. I had a lovely time in this class and I hope you all did too. This class for real saved me in its flexibility with being able to choose how many books we read. I loved being able to plan …
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Bye, sad, time to go
Hello everyone, welcome to my last blog post of the semester. We have made it to the end of our blog journey for this class which feels bittersweet. When we started the semester and I signed my contract it felt like the end was nowhere in sight but it went by faster than I could […]
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I know I said that “Time of the Doves” was one of the books of all time, but this book is a strong contender for the book of all time. “The Lover” by Margurite Duras was an interesting book to say the least. This book’s subject matter was heavily sexual, which would be eyebrow raising […]
Posted in Blogs, Duras | Tagged with love, loveless, race, sad, sex
Hi everyone! Another week, another read, haha! Let’s dive into “The Hour of the Star” by Clarice Lispector! I loved that this week we got to read a book written by a female author. Now, as I assume most of you discussed, this was quite an interesting format to read – one character narrating the […]
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Reading “The Time of the Doves” by Marcè Rodoreda made me feel lots of big girl feelings, I was intrigued, disgusted, confused, furious, and most of all just straight up sad. I think this book speaks a lot to generational trauma, especially in women. It reminds me of the type of generational trauma that is […]
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Hi everyone:) I hope you all had an amazing reading break. I can’t believe we are almost at the halfway mark of the term; man, does time fly! So let’s talk about “The Time of the Doves” by Mercè Rodoreda. I had many thoughts while reading this book – the first one being, umm… are […]
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Woah. The title made me think it would be like a nice romantic novel in Spain with roses and dancing, but it was in fact a not nice and not romantic book, which actually did include roses and dancing. Doves … Continue reading →
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For this week, we were given the task of reading Amulet by Robert Bolaño. I found this to be one of the best books we’ve read in this course so far. This book, like many of the other ones, have the consistent theme of memory, and I think repetition. The story is one long monologue, […]
Posted in Blogs, Bolaño | Tagged with Chile, history, history of the future, literature, memory, Mexico, narrative, poet, Poetry, poverty, recollection, sad, sadness, trauma, Weekly Book Blog
