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I’m sorry for this but I do not know what else to write about
I am late with this. It’s been increasingly hard to do anything. Fuck depression. I hope I do not come off trying to find pity in this post, but if I have to write something this is the only thing I have in my mind and I might as well use this obligation to write […] Continue reading
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Final Blog!
Woah, I cannot believe we’ve reached the end of the semester! Thinking of endings: this is always an ending I don’t mind reaching. If we think about each week as a chapter and the whole semester as a book, I’ve enjoyed this one. In this comparison am I writing the chapters or reading them? I […] Continue reading
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RMST 495 – Week 13: The End
Salut tout le monde ! Bonjorn a totes! Hola a totham! ¡Hola a todos! Ciao a tutti ! Ciao a tücc! Ciau a tutti! Ola a toz! Ola a todos! Olá a todos! —————————————————————— —————————————————————— Honestly, I cannot believe we’re already at the end of the course and submitting our very final blog post. It […] Continue reading
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In the beginning, there was a book club
The end of this course has me thinking about a number of things. One of them is book clubs. Another is beginnings. Another is my MA thesis. Book club meetings have sometimes been imagined as gatherings of middle-aged women who would rather gossip or complain than discuss books. And while I unequivocally support a woman’s … Continue reading
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Week 13
I feel like I’m never ready for endings. For me, Thursday will be the last class of my undergrad studies at UBC. In a classroom only a hallway down from the classroom where I had my nervous first class in Continue reading Week 13 Continue reading
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Concluding Blog
For the final blog post in RMST 495, I think my biggest takeaway is how differently a story can be told, even when both books revolve around similar things and themes such as searching for someone. Reading both the Savage detectives and the Shadow of the Wind showed me that there really isn’t just one […] Continue reading
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