Hi, everyone. Welcome to my fifth blog! This week I read “Agostino” written by Alberto Moravia. It is a complicated story. I have many thoughts to share with you.The protagonist is a little boy named Agostino. When I first started reading this boo…
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Hi, everyone. Welcome to my fifth blog! This week I read “Agostino” written by Alberto Moravia. It is a complicated story. I have many thoughts to share with you.The protagonist is a little boy named Agostino. When I first started reading this boo…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with mother, Relationship, teenager
I decided to look up the author, as I do with most of what I read, and was surprised to find that Françoise Sagan was only 18 years old when she published Bonjour Tristesse. Also that it was her first novel and is her most popular novel ever published. This was inspiring to find. That […]
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Wow. This book floored me. On its own, it’s an incredibly engaging and well-written novel. However, it’s rendered so much more impressive when you factor in how young Françoise Sagan was when she wrote it. The uniqueness of a teenage author writing this narrative centered on the interpersonal relationships and teen angst of an adolescent […]
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