I am deeply disturbed. The story follows three women forced into polygamous marriages, starting with Ramla, who has just finished high school and found true love, only for her parents to marry her off to a fifty-year-old rich man because money. Then there’s Hindou, Ramla’s sister, who is married to her alcoholic, abusive cousin, who […]
José Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons
A conversation with José Eduardo Agualusa
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Hi blog!! Last week was my week off from reading for this class, and it was both weird and relaxing. Weird because I got used to reading a whole book every weekend, and relaxing because I had 3 midterms the week before and my Latin 301 midterm last Friday, so my brain desperately needed the […]
Mar 15, 2026 Finally a less depressing read from this course! …oh but the characters are evil and almost everybody dies in the end. Anyways I actually enjoyed reading this book a lot, minus the disgusting objectification of girls (can’t even call them women they were like 13-15 ewww) and the absurd amount of violence […]
I understand the appeal of this and other crime books, and I recognize the point of the story and what it had to say, but it was not for me. I’m not really a fan of graphic descriptions of people’s insides (of which this book contained multitudes). I really appreciated that Piglia didn’t seem to […]
Like with many other things I have read in this course, I found this novel a little hard for me to follow at times. There were so many characters and aliases that I constantly lost track of who was who. That said, certain parts really stood out to me, especially the sections that focused on […]
I really enjoyed ‘Money to Burn’ and I was surprised when it said it was based on a true story in the epilogue. I’ve recently been rewatching Brooklyn 99 and this is definitely a story that Jake would’ve been obsessed with. It was a little confusing to read because it felt like there were so many characters and each character…
It must have been a lot of work, trying his best to gather all the material to write this novel. The interrogations, police reports, witnesses, newspapers, and all the other figures who helped Piglia gain access to this information. Piglia wanted to make the facts clear, as much as possible, even though it is a […]
