This was my first book that I chose on a whim without reading the synopsis at the start of the semester so I was pretty blindsided by the topic that it delved into! However, It’s not written in a complicated way and the chapters move on pretty quickly. What stayed with me was how normalized […]
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Tender… Chicken Tender… Mmmm… I am hungry…. Off to a hambre start, I think that Debré’s novel encompasses so much with its fierce challenging on what it means to be a mother. Constance’s experience with a non-traditional motherhood being stripped of her son from her vindictive and upset ex-husband speaks to societal norms as does …
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After reading this book, Piglia presents crime not as an act of violence but as a window into society’s values and contradictions. What I thought was really good about the book was that how the criminals burning the stolen money allows us to reconsider what wealth really is, as throughout the book, the bank robber […]
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jan 25, 2026 I have a lot of thoughts after reading Maria Luisa Bombal’s The Shrouded Woman. I really enjoyed reading this book. Not in the way that I felt good while reading, I felt really sad reading about the lives of the women in the book, but I relate to the narrator as a […]
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“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.” (Alcott, Little Women) A wearying message arrives to Elena: Her friend has vanished. Yet, […]
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If you’ve read some of my blogs before you may remember me as the girl who was scared while reading the shrouded woman because of her constant worry of death…yup you could imagine my joy reading this book, I’m joking, I actually really enjoyed this book, even with the constant talk about death (maybe I’ve […]
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Hello everyone. Welcome back to this week’s book. This week we delved into José Saramago’s Death With Interruptions. The impression I had of this book before I read it completely changed after I finished reading the book. The outlook death had in this book was completely different from all the other books we have read […]
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I really wish that this book was just the latter part…. but fine… I guess its okay. Death with Interruptions deals with the very philosophical point of what would happen if we all stopped dying. I liked the start a lot, the middle was okay but I WAS EATING UP THE END (Gen Z terms). …
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“Death with Interruptions” by José Saramago is the kind of fiction book I enjoy. I’m typically not a fiction lover, but I think the amount of philosophy and political aspects in this book makes me so curious that I somehow remain focused on the book. Even when it takes a while for a reader to […]
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Money to Burn by Ricardo Piglia. This week’s novel was completely different than all the other ones I have read so far, I think it’s my first time reading a criminal book not watching a show about it. With heists and gun battles, social commentary and the criminal system as well as the complexity and […]
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