Ricardo Piglia’s Money to Burn starts off like a classic crime story at first. A group of criminals plan a robbery, escapes across the border, and eventually end up trapped in a violent standoff with the police. It has all the elements you’d expect from a thriller such as guns, paranoia, betrayals, and tense planning […]
The start of this novel gave me Season 1 “Money Heist” vibes, minus the queer representation. We had latino criminals planning for a big heist that would change their lives, and we get the explore the dynamics between each character within this “ambitious” team. But there’s a huge contrast, everyone here is pure evil, like […]
A conversation with Norman Manea
After reading the Trenchcoat, I feel quite confused. I feel like the other books I’ve read for this course have been easier to follow, with plots and settings, as well as distinct characters. In this novel, there are so many characters that I cannot keep track of who is speaking, or their names. The Learned […]
The Trenchcoat was a pretty unsettling read in a quiet kind of way. The story feels simple on the surface, but there’s this constant tension lingering in the background that slowly creeps up on you. What I found really interesting is that everything is told through a child’s perspective. The narrator doesn’t fully understand the […]
Carlos Fuentes, The Old Gringo
Another book, another terrible love interest. Can we talk about how everyone in this narrator’s life is simply awful? To begin with, she’s fifteen and a half when she meets and begins a sexual relationship with a twenty-seven-year-old man. When her mother discovers that she’s been skipping school so he can pick her up in […]
Marguerite Duras, The Lover
Hello everyone, This week I’m breaking character because what is this book. I remember being so sad when I was reading blog guidelines at the start of term and seeing that Tumblr got a specific restriction (which of course is probably for good rea…
Hello everyone, This week I’m breaking character because what is this book. I remember being so sad when I was reading blog guidelines at the start of term and seeing that Tumblr got a specific restriction (which of course is probably for good rea…
