scott does scotland: travel adventures

I literally JUST remembered I was supposed to post this last night. Whoops! The Kingdom of This World is easily in my top 3 books we’ve read so far. I found the tone very conversational, the characters multi-faceted (and investable emotionally) and the plot interesting. Here are a few things I paused to think about and write down as I read: The songs/poems – what part do they play? The original language of the text is Spanish, but some of the verse used in the story is in French/Latin. I wonder…read more

This is actually my week to blog. Woohoo! So I did one of my favourite things to do when I don’t quite know what something means (it happens a lot when some colleagues use big words in seminar) – I Googled this book. And one of the first things that came up is a book review by some random with a .edu website. So I thought it looked semi-credible, and upon reading it I realized that some of his points corresponded with some of my points. Here it is.  1….read more

Disclaimer: This is not my week to blog. Oh well. So, our friend Rousseau seems to have some interesting feelings about gender etc. That isn’t the only thing I plan to address in this blog post, but I feel like it’s difficult for everyone to voice their opinions in seminar because some of us (me) have louder voices than others and we all have stuff to say! Also, I feel like gender and especially gender equality is something we’ve avoided talking about a little bit because we’re afraid it might…read more