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The end… Or is it?

Posted on March 25, 2026 by simi2525

Hi everyone! I cannot believe we have all finished The Savage Detectives, it felt like this day would never come. I want to first reflect on the action of not only reading a long book, but reading it alongside peers that are having the same experience; this is something I have never done before personally. […] Continue reading →

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Best Frenemies- Zeno and Guido

Posted on March 18, 2026 by simi2525

Hi everyone, I can’t believe we are approaching the end of the course so fast, which means all of us will have read both The Savage Detectives and our self-selected book. I am really happy with my choice, as I have enjoyed most of the book, and am anticipating a very funny and ironic psycho-analysis […] Continue reading →

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Savage Detectives: I am Still Confused

Posted on March 11, 2026 by simi2525

Hi everyone, I cannot believe we are nearly finished the book, it feels like time has flown by in terms of this course and the rest of the semester. At the same time, this book continues to drag itself out and always finds something else to say. I still like the book, but as it […] Continue reading →

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Zeno is NOT Husband of the Year

Posted on March 4, 2026 by simi2525

I left my last blog post uncertain as to whether Zeno would marry Ada or not. I thought there was a chance, but really given the nature of the book it was also fair to assume that something would go wrong, and Zeno would not be able to marry Ada, the one he has been […] Continue reading →

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A Sprawled Out Story

Posted on February 25, 2026 by simi2525

“How long is this going to take?” (King Julien from the Madagascar movie). That is kind of how I felt reading this chunk of the book. Because there are so many voices and stories, that are coming from all ends of the world, and are semi-relevant but are also displaying the ways in which these […] Continue reading →

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A Reconstruction of Time by Auxilio

Posted on February 12, 2026 by simi2525

Hi everyone, likewise to what I have read from everyone else’s posts so far on Amulet by Roberto Bolańo, it is kind of hard for me to pinpoint how I feel about the book. I don’t think I loved the book, but it did leave me a lot to think about. One of the main […] Continue reading →

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Nothing Comes Easy for Zeno… According to Him

Posted on February 5, 2026 by simi2525

Hi everyone, I have read about 70 more pages since my first blog post on Zeno’s Conscience, which puts me at page 130, which is just before the part titled The Story of My Marriage finishes. Originally, I was going to finish this part, but I don’t think I divided it up very well, so I adjusted. […] Continue reading →

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Additional Context

Posted on January 26, 2026 by simi2525

For my second blog on The Savage Detectives, it took me a moment to try and decide what an appropriate title could be for my post. I’ve called it “Additional Context” because as I was reading, especially with the characters we saw little glimpses of in the first part, more of the puzzle was starting to come […] Continue reading →

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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 →

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An Eventful End to the Year for Madero?

Posted on January 14, 2026 by simi2525

Hi everyone, in my version of “The Savage Detectives” by Roberto Bolano, I read up to page 140, which took me to the end of Part 1. I’m not sure if everyone else felt this way, but the entire time I was reading, the most prominent feeling for myself was absolute exhaustion. Juan García Madero […] Continue reading →

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