Hello Everyone, welcome back to my blog. This will hopefully be my last late post as I am scrambling to catch up from joining the class a week late. The book of interest for this week is Combray by Marcel Proust. I had not heard of Proust prior to reading this so I had no […]
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Hi everyone!! I hope you’re staying warm 🙂 I don’t know about y’all, but for me, there is something about the cold weather and snow which puts me in a reading mood. So I loved that the weather has been cool and enhanced my reading experience!! Going into this week’s reading, I was a little […]
Posted in Blogs, Proust | Tagged with family, memories, week 2
“Combray” by Proust takes us through the nostalgia trip of our main character. This one was admittedly a harder read for me. I found myself passionately reading on and on with these very descriptive adjectives being thrown at me continuously. There were parts I found to be rather boring and others I found truly captivating. …
Posted in Blogs, Proust | Tagged with France, memory, nostalgia, week 2
I really enjoyed reading this piece, and the more I read, the more immersed I was in the story. One thing that I want to note about the reading was how description-driven it was. If someone asked me what the plot was, it would be difficult to describe. I would probably say something about how […]
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I must say, from the beginning, I didn’t particularly enjoy reading this novel. Proust’s run-on sentences with extreme descriptions left me in a bit of a dreary state with my attention drifting in and out of the words. However, considering how th…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with confusing, descriptive, time, week 2
I must say, from the beginning, I didn’t particularly enjoy reading this novel. Proust’s run-on sentences with extreme descriptions left me in a bit of a dreary state with my attention drifting in and out of the words. However, considering how th…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with confusing, descriptive, time, week 2
