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No catchy title here folks! All my previous blog posts simply are titled with the title of the book, the part of the book, and the corresponding page numbers. I kind of felt an obligation to come up with a catchy title since this week’s reading was the entirety of the short novel, Amulet, but … Continue reading Amulet Continue reading →

Returning to 2666 this week with “The Part About Amalfitano”, the second Part out of five, I had a much shorter reading than normal. If I’m not mistaken, this will be the fewest number of pages in a given week for this course at just ~65 pages! Worry not though, longer readings for these long … Continue reading 2666 – The Part About Amalfitano (pp. 163-228) Continue reading →

Unlike the very first part of The Savage Detectives, I’m not going into this second part completely blind because of our discussions in class where it was mentioned that this second part would take a shift from García Madero’s journal entries to a multi-narrative style (multiperspectivity? polyperspectivity? polyphonic narration? I just searched on Google “word for multiple narrators” … Continue reading The Savage Detectives II (pp. 143-205) Continue reading →

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 →

As someone completely unfamiliar with Bolaño’s works and The Savage Detectives, I really went into this first part blind, not knowing what to expect. Yet still, any of my faint preconceived notions went out the window as soon as I started reading. I certainly found this first part to be quite interesting, and to be … Continue reading The Savage Detectives I (pp. 3-139) Continue reading →

Knock, knock. Who’s there? Lucas. Lucas who? That’s me! (My last name is “Hu” pronounced like “who”)   Hi everyone, my name’s Lucas and welcome to my blog for RMST 495 (or perhaps you’re reading this post on the home page for RMST 495)! I’m in my final term here at UBC as a computer … Continue reading Introductory Blog Post Continue reading →

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