I know this text wasn’t that long compared to some of the other texts, but somehow the writing style made it feel even shorter which I really appreciate. I also appreciate the lack of 50 billion names all being introduced at the same time, which I can’t say about Piglia. I will say, reading a […]
I wanted to start off by saying this book pleasantly surprised me in quite a few ways, especially by the emotional ending. I was seeing a lot of parallels drawn with repect to Money to burn so i might be referencing that a lot (it could also be recency bias since this was the book […]
I was not expecting to like Soldiers of Salamis as much as I did but I was pleasantly surprised. In all honesty, I don’t know much about the Spanish Civil War so I enjoyed that this book explained the political/social context of Spain in the 1930s, making it a little easier to understand. At times, I […]
… I think this is one of those books where I was interested the whole time, but also never fully trusted what I was reading. Which I think was on purpose? The novel felt less like reading a normal novel and more like following someone’s obsession in real time. The narration kept pulling me in … Continue reading salami
I liked this one! I felt like I read it in mere minutes, it went by so quick. I really felt this book, felt it sweating and sweet as I read it, as our gecko narrator scurries along the wall “like a tick on its host’s skin” and describes how the sun “silenced the birds, […]
José Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons
Javier Cercas, Soldiers of Salamis
Carlos Fuentes, The Old Gringo
IM ALWAYS CONFUSED. Extremely lost once again… but it also seems like everyone in this story is also confused and stressed and repeating themselves so maybe it’s fine.. First of all.. The narration style really threw me off at first. There is SO much repetition. Characters say the same thing over and over but in … Continue reading im not sure..
Georges Perec, W, or the Memory of Childhood
