Monthly Archives: March 2026

ACCORDING to my books-review app, I read Amulet for the first time from March 09, 2025 to March 15, 2025.  An attempt to reconstruct, recall, remember what motivated me to read the novel brings forth an image to mind. I must looked up books included in previously taught courses. Amulet was listed. I loan it […] Continue reading →

POEM OF THE WEEK:    It is a summary, a regurgitation of an introduction by poet and novelist Kaveh Akbar to an Anglo-Saxon charm Against a Growth. From 975, by Unknown. A poem,  divine chant, activated by its own sound  virtue of being in the air.  There will be a part two before next Thursday. […] Continue reading →

I think I’ve been trying to sit with the why of it all. Why is this the ending Bolaño chose? What does ending on a short flashback section achieve for the story? Is it to sandwich the book between two Garcia Madero sections for symmetry? Did he want a chance to play around with the […] Continue reading →

Poem of this week is: not a poem, but a phrase, penned by me. Eje tematico: la Vida Thematic focus: Life.  —  ONCE a university friend, from a different nation, my original nation, said university made him read faster. And so I learned. This is a new technique I have learned from RMST 202 and […] Continue reading →

About Bolaño… OFTEN there are times, when I think I understand a whole text. I do not. For example, I do not understand the author’s writing experience, or his or her emotional process as they wrote their lives away. At this point, I approach this novel as auto-fiction. About Bolaño’s life. I have not yet […] Continue reading →

I finished the book, and I really liked it. I love how it’s a huge puzzle, instead of a conventional plot with the “introduction, rising action, climax, denouement, resolution”. In fact it’s a huge puzzle missing many pieces – Bolaño Continue reading Week 11: The Sun Also Rises in the Sonora Desert→ Continue reading →

Ahhh. This was the easiest that picking up Bolaño has been all semester. I’ll admit I’ve done most of my reading early Wednesday morning and late Wednesday night this semester (so that I can write my blog before midnight and work on things for my two other Thursday classes that are due in the morning […] Continue reading →