Monthly Archives: January 2026

Echoes of a past Juli

Posted on January 26, 2026 by julsanta

Wow, incredible title, I know. I was trying to figure out what to write about for this post. It’s such a hard exercise. Finding things that interest me in Bolaño’s book feels like an impossible task. I am trying though, I really am. I think my hate and anger towards Garcia Madero has died down […] Continue reading →

Tagged | Comments Off on Echoes of a past Juli

Week 3 – Reading Not the Assigned

Posted on January 22, 2026 by dleoar

WEEK 3. This week’s post reflects on Esperanza’s search for identity in The House on Mango Street, alongside my current and extracurricular reading, which continues to shape how I think about voice, writing, and lyricism. This week’s poem is an excerpt from The House on Mango Street (1984) by Sandra Cisneros. The poem is penned by […] Continue reading →

Tagged | Comments Off on Week 3 – Reading Not the Assigned

Justo Antes del Final – Part 1: Between ghosts and contradictions

Posted on January 22, 2026 by Amada Libertad

Damn. Continue reading →

Comments Off on Justo Antes del Final – Part 1: Between ghosts and contradictions

2666 I

Posted on January 22, 2026 by Jon

This blog post is something of a placeholder… I admit that for various reasons I have yet to get fully into Bolaño’s novel. I am a little past page 100, almost exactly halfway through the first of the five “parts” … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off on 2666 I

2666 – The Part About The Critics (pp. 3-159)

Posted on January 22, 2026 by lucas73

Wow, I believe this was a great start to this long book, and it’s left me thoroughly intrigued as to what comes next! Sadly, but not that sadly, I will restrain myself for another week, since this next week I’ll be returning to The Savage Detectives (which I also really enjoyed reading and the reason why … Continue reading 2666 – The Part About The Critics (pp. 3-159) Continue reading →

Tagged | Comments Off on 2666 – The Part About The Critics (pp. 3-159)

January 1981

Posted on January 22, 2026 by Eli

Reading the first chapter of the Nuestra parte de noche (Our share of night), by Mariana Enriquez, called Las garras del dios vivo, enero de 1981 (the claws of the living god, January 1981), has been an astonishing, impressive, experience accompanied by cosas imposibles (impossible things) while everyday life has to continue in the non-routinary […] Continue reading →

Tagged | Comments Off on January 1981

This is War!

Posted on January 22, 2026 by Carlina

Les Guerriers de l’hiver by Olivier Norek was published in 2024. Continue reading →

Comments Off on This is War!

I hate this book

Posted on January 22, 2026 by harmela kassa

I don’t think its Marie Vieux Chauvet’s fault. Continue reading →

Comments Off on I hate this book

Jasmine (Living Room, 1)—[life a user’s manual by georges perec]

Posted on January 21, 2026 by jasmine choi

Jasmine (Living Room, 1)—[life a user’s manual by georges perec] I think that I am reading a puzzle. Georges Perec’s book Life a User’s Manual is about a Paris apartment building and the people who live or have lived in its flats. Supposedly it is set against one exact moment in time — 8:00pm on June […] Continue reading →

Tagged , | Comments Off on Jasmine (Living Room, 1)—[life a user’s manual by georges perec]

I am Scared of Zeno’s Conscience

Posted on January 21, 2026 by simi2525

Hi everyone, this is my first blog post for our self-selected books for the course. I chose to read Zeno’s Conscience by Italo Svevo, and I read up to page 61. I haven’t evenly split my book into four sections based on page numbers, but instead I went off of the parts in the book, […] Continue reading →

Tagged | Comments Off on I am Scared of Zeno’s Conscience