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As you might recall, I really enjoyed reading the first part of The Savage Detectives, but now… I am not even sure how I feel. From the very beginning, I have felt that I always need to be on the hunt for details, making connections, connecting the dots with Bolaño but at this point I’m … Continue reading The Savage Detectives Part II: What is going on? Continue reading →

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 →

Just as I said that I liked the journal-style writing in the first part of the book, I also really like the writing style of the second part. I am assuming that all the different voices talking are to represent these people being interviewed. In the first paragraph of section two we see: “Amadeo Salvatierra, […] Continue reading →

Wow, incredible title, I know. I was trying to figure out what to write about for this post. It’s such a hard exercise. Finding things that interest me in Bolaño’s book feels like an impossible task. I am trying though, I really am. I think my hate and anger towards Garcia Madero has died down […] Continue reading →

WEEK 3. This week’s post reflects on Esperanza’s search for identity in The House on Mango Street, alongside my current and extracurricular reading, which continues to shape how I think about voice, writing, and lyricism. This week’s poem is an excerpt from The House on Mango Street (1984) by Sandra Cisneros. The poem is penned by […] 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 →

Reading the first chapter of the Nuestra parte de noche (Our share of night), by Mariana Enriquez, called Las garras del dios vivo, enero de 1981 (the claws of the living god, January 1981), has been an astonishing, impressive, experience accompanied by cosas imposibles (impossible things) while everyday life has to continue in the non-routinary […] Continue reading →

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 →

I chose to read Don quixote. This is a novel written in the 1600’s by Cervantes Saavedra. The story has a main protagonist as Alonso Quijano who is obsessed with medieval romances and with becoming a knight-errant. He names himself Don Quixote de la Mancha and goes on different adventures with his ” escudero” Sancho-Panza […] Continue reading →

Hi Guys! The book I have chosen is The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon My initial reaction to this book was that I actually think I like it and will enjoy it. I have been reading a lot of literature recently and a lot of it is boring and hard to understand. […] Continue reading →