Hi everyone!! I hope you had a great long weekend 🙂 This weekend was actually my brother’s birthday so I went with him and a few of my friends to Whistler to celebrate. Normally I have read most of our books as a PDF on my ipad, but in honour of this being our LAST […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Faces in the Crowd, ghosts, stories, Valeria Luiselli, week 12
Hello everyone, welcome to the last book week of my blog. The book in question is My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante. Interestingly, Elena Ferrante is merely a pseudonym as the author’s true identity is unknown. The real author is said to have grown up in Naples, and the intimate portrayal of the city in […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with coming of age, Naples, violence, week 12
I’m not sure how to write this. I’m not sure what the correct wording to use here is because how do you write a concluding blog post? To begin with, I enjoyed this course (really mundane start but hey! gotta begin somewhere!) especially because we learnt a lot about literature in the romantic era. I […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Conclusions, final blog post, literature, week 12
I really enjoyed this book. Maybe the most interesting (hey, I’ve used this word in all my blogs so far, why break the trend now?) thing I found in this story was the relationship between Elena and Lila. With both of them beginning in a poor neighbourhood in 1950s Naples, there is an seemingly unbreakable […]
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with coming of age, literature, reflections, social situations, week 12
I liked this book, the intertwining storylines of politics, romance, and dreams made it an interesting read. While the dreaming and romantic narratives provided interesting psychological thought and emotional elements, the commentary on the political tension was my favorite element of this book. I enjoyed that the dream narrative was not imposed upon by Freud’s […]
Posted in Agualusa, Blogs | Tagged with Dreams, dreamworld, memory, politics, time, week 12
