Hey everyone. This week has been a real struggle for me. Even though March is coming to an end, I still have two midterms looming over me. Why does it feel like midterm season never ends? 🙁 Anyway, let’s talk about the book. As a big thriller fan, I was eager to dive into “Money … Continue reading Money to Burn: The Morally Gray (Mar 18)
Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with 2 Stars, crime, gangs, society
Hello everyone. Welcome back to this week’s book. This week we delved into Ricardo Piglia’s Money to Burn. It’s safe to say this was definitely my least favourite book. The jump from reading books about childhood, romance, and death, to violence was weird, but honestly the change was good. This novel tells the story of […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with money, RMST 202 Week 10, robbers, society
After finishing the book, I was left with the internal question of “What did I just read?” And then I looked up the author, and it started to make more sense. The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector is yet another book that dives into the themes of identity, the search for meaning, and […]
Posted in Blogs, Lispector | Tagged with Brazil, Clarice Lispector, existence, identity, Macabea, Personal Growth, Philsophy, poverty, Roast, romance, society, women
Deep Rivers by José María Arguedas gives a violent and ugly depiction of life while at the same immersing you in the beauty of the world and the natural world. The author spends significant time creating a detailed depiction of the vivid Peruvian…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with death, identity, Peru, society
Deep Rivers by José María Arguedas gives a violent and ugly depiction of life while at the same immersing you in the beauty of the world and the natural world. The author spends significant time creating a detailed depiction of the vivid Peruvian…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with death, identity, Peru, society
Hey everyone, I hope you had a good weekend and enjoyed this week’s reading, “The Shrouded Woman” by Maria Luisa Bombal. This novel tackles the captivating and intricate life narrative of Ana Maria, a woman whose existence extends beyond death as…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with desires, love, Magic Realism, Maria bombal, society
Hey everyone, I hope you had a good weekend and enjoyed this week’s reading, “The Shrouded Woman” by Maria Luisa Bombal. This novel tackles the captivating and intricate life narrative of Ana Maria, a woman whose existence extends beyond death as…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with desires, love, Magic Realism, Maria bombal, society
I did not know what to think while reading, ‘The Society of Reluctant Dreamers’, by José Eduardo Agualusa. It is certainly a book that I found exists more in the realm of the unknown than the known. The story relies on speculation much of the time…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Angola, confusion, Dreams, society
I did not know what to think while reading, ‘The Society of Reluctant Dreamers’, by José Eduardo Agualusa. It is certainly a book that I found exists more in the realm of the unknown than the known. The story relies on speculation much of the time…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Angola, confusion, Dreams, society
War seems to be the common theme the last couple of weeks and it is no different as this story takes place during the Angolan Civil War. However, this book tries to find the best out of this horrible situation by creating a dreamlike landscape and beautiful imagery to make this situation a little tolerable […]
Posted in Agualusa, Blogs | Tagged with Conflict, dreamers, fantasy, fear, society, war
