Monthly Archives: March 2026

The End: “It’s getting late son”

Posted on March 31, 2026 by ava

Here’s a whistled version of one of my favourite songs by Farhad Mehrad to help you get through my blog. Hope you enjoy it! On page 3, the novel posed two questions: “When did Peru fuck up?” and “When did he fuck up?” referring to Santiago, the main character. Since the beginning, I have been … Continue reading The End: “It’s getting late son” Continue reading →

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Don Quixote , the end

Posted on March 30, 2026 by davesan9

Hello everybody!!! Don Quixote came to an end and that finale is not what I was expecting. However ,it is a good ending because there are many questions in my mind after reading it and that’s what a book should do: to challenge you! After looking for glory for so many pages , Don Quixote […] Continue reading →

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A beautiful ending

Posted on March 30, 2026 by aburke09

I am happy to say that the book made a quick turnaround. I expressed my disappointment in my last post because the story of why some people wanted Carax dead just seemed too dramatic and unrealistic. One thing I had been confused about (and expressed in my previous blogs) finally made sense: I had been […] Continue reading →

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The Savage Detectives VI: Reading with AI

Posted on March 28, 2026 by Jon

As an experiment (and in preparation for an upcoming discussion of reading with AI, in the context of reading The Savage Detectives), I thought I would ask ChatGPT a few questions about the book, and see what it came up … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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The city, the world, and the “countryside?” – The Savage Detectives ends

Posted on March 27, 2026 by Amada Libertad

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The Literary Void (Late Post on “Amulet”)

Posted on March 27, 2026 by dleoar

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 →

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About Retrospective (Catch up)…

Posted on March 26, 2026 by dleoar

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 →

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Bolaño 6: The finale

Posted on March 26, 2026 by parden

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 →

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I’ve got a knife, have you got a knife too?. — [the savage detectives; pp. 589–648]

Posted on March 26, 2026 by jasmine choi

I’ve got a knife, have you got a knife too?. — [the savage detectives; pp. 589–648] Cesárea Tinajero… where have you been? I wanted more with Cesárea Tinajero, and maybe that’s by design. I think that no one got what they were looking for.  Maybe, that’s by design too. We never actually find out what’s […] Continue reading →

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Eje tematico: la Vida

Posted on March 26, 2026 by dleoar

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 →

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