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We did it!
Hey Everyone! Congrats on making it to the end of the course and overall the last week of classes! I don’t know about everyone else but I had a heavy course load with tons of reading and exams, but I could only imagine how much worse it would have been if I picked a different…
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romance studies? more like adolescence studies. Also fuck you Marcello
‘My Brilliant Friend” by Elena Ferrante was by far my favourite book of the semester. Why? Because it was well written, intense, and most of all, relatable. The story follows two girls from childhood through adolescence, Elena and Lila, who are two unlikely friends that have an intense, competitive, and tough friendship due to their…
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Money can be everything and nothing at the same time
This week’s novel was ‘Money to Burn’ by Ricardo Piglia. I’m not sure how I felt about this book as it was action packed which kept me locked in at times, however, the way in which certain sexual acts or violence was described made me feel disgusted. Specifically, the descriptions of the young girl Blanca…
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My head is hurting
‘If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller’ by Italo Calvino is by far the most uniquely written book I have ever read. Although I cannot say I thoroughly enjoyed it as I found that the author’s tangents, as well as inserting himself into the short stories, caused me to get a headache lol. It is…
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Another trapped woman
I found this week’s book “The Time of The Doves” by Merce Rodoreda to be very clearly and literally written which made it easy to follow. Although told in first person, I felt that that the writting, because written so literally, lacked emotion that is usually shown through the character. As a potential result of…
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The sacrifices made for an education
For this week’s book I decided to read “Black Shack Alley” by Joseph Zobel. Objectively, this was a well written book that touches on larger topics such as poverty, racial inequality, and injustice through the eyes of someone who lived through this period. However, I did find the novel a little too long and did…
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The boy who loved mommy a little too hard…again?
This week’s book “Agostino” by Alberto Moravia was quite an interesting novel. I like this book quite a bit, one of my favs so far. It was extremely clear while not taking away from the imagery, as I felt like I was on a scenic beach the entire time. The two main things that stood…
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“The Shrouded Woman” Maria Bombal
Out of all the readings so far, “The Shrouded Woman” by Maria Luisa Bombal has to be my favourite. The narration was done in a way that was filled with great emotion and intriguing descriptions of both scenery and actions. You could feel Ana Maria’s pain from the grave through the way she reminisces on her…
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He finally got his shot
To begin, I did not mind reading Roberto Artl’s “Mad Toy”. I did not love it, but I did not dislike it. I enjoyed the structure of the writing as it was clear, and the desriptions were explained in a strong way, but did not run on like with Proust’s writing. In my eyes, this…
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Proust- the now empty man
“Combray” by Marcel Proust is easily a book that can be understood and interpreted in many ways. First I will begin by saying that I did not enjoy the writing structure of novel, the long and extreme descriptive writing made it hard to follow the narrative at some points. In the first part alone, many…