Hi everyone!! I hope you all had a good weekend:) We are so close to being done with this semester, that’s wild HAHA only a couple books to go!! This week I read José Eduardo Agualusa’s The Book of Chameleons. Not going to lie I felt super lost reading this book, I’m not sure if […]
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Week 11 yay we’re almost done! For this week I read Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago which I thoroughly enjoyed. I found this story really surprising and unexpected in a good way, truth be told I never really knew too much about the books that I chose to read I kinda picked based off […]
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Hello all, welcome back to the blog. This weeks book, Death with Interruptions by José Saramago, covers the topic of death, as you probably already guessed from the name. Death with Interruptions was an enjoyable albeit sometimes frustrating read. The author’s allergy to quotation marks, for example, made certain sections quite difficult to understand on […]
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When our original beliefs are defeated by reality, is it that we have changed, or is the society that is the way it is, it is only when we grow up that we realize the most primitive self. “Soldiers of Salamis” is a classic war novel. I like this book very much. Although I … Continue reading Review of Soldiers of Salamis →
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