Tag: reading
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The Big End of Semester Wrap Up – Goodbye:(
It’s here! The last blog post of the semester! Thank you, dear reader, for reading all of my little blog posts. I hope you enjoyed my analysis and shared some similar thoughts, or thought differently about sections after reading my thoughts. I am honestly going to miss this blog, it was very fun to design…
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12 Years Isn’t That Bad, Right? – The Lover
By far the shortest and most uncomfortable read at this point in the semester, The Lover by Marguerite Duras is a novel about the clandestine relationship between a 27-year-old man and a 15-year-old girl. The prose in this book is beautifully written, as an autobiography with Duras recalling her time in Saigon. She captures the…
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Bookception: A Novel About Novels in a Novel (read with me!)
Hello everyone and happy Tuesday! this week I have decided to do something different than usual and structure my weekly blog post as a read-along with me. Here are my thoughts as I read If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino: Check-in #1: I am on page 75 and going strong. So…
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Nadja; Surrealist Dream or Actual Person?
The second French book of the course, Nadja by André Breton is a short surrealist novel. It was a very fast and interesting read but took me a minute to get into. At first, Breton talks about the theatre and his inability to recognize actors. Upon meeting Nadja however, things become much more interesting. Nadja…
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Combray: The Over-explained Little French Town
Hello! I just finished Marcel Proust’s Combray and boy oh boy do I have some thoughts. I adore reading but this book seemed like a chore while I was reading it. This may have to do with the fact I (admittedly foolishly) decided to read it all in one day. However, there is no plot…
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Studying Romance (The Languages not the Genre): Introduction
Hello everyone! Welcome to my little blog. I am so excited to start reviewing all the books I am going to read this semester. My name is Laurenne and I am a first-year English student from Kelowna! My five-year plan (haha) is to become a high school English teacher so I am always looking for…
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