Month: February 2024

February 26, 2024 on Rodoreda tagged Catalan, Despair, Family, Life, Motherhood, Prose, war, Womanhood

Definition of Suffering- “Time of the Doves” -Rodoreda

After reading “Time of the Doves” by Rodoreda I genuinely believe this book is the definition of suffering. In “Time of the Doves” we follow our protagonist Natalia as she goes through the Spanish Civil War and face major losses. This book had me feeling bad for Natalia through and through. I have never seen …

February 13, 2024 on Zobel tagged childhood, colonialism, coming of age, Education, fanily, Memory, post colonialism, Race

Childhood in an evolving world- “Black Shack Alley” by Zobel

Black shack alley by Zobel is like any other coming of age novel but, it is in a “post colonial” evolving world. I didn’t like Black Shack Alley as much as the rest of the books we’ve read so far but I believe that is fully just because of my taste in books, not at …

February 5, 2024 on Laforet tagged coming of age, conflict, Drama, Family, Gender, spain, Suffering, war

A House of Madness (20th century Kardashians)- “Nada” by Carmen Laforet

Nada, a book of madness, trauma and grotesqueness that encase its pages. Nada was a book full of drama, conflict and messiness from all characters. Like Bombal’s novel I found it so hard to like anyone, when I started to like someone or feel sorry for them I would quickly realize that they sucked as …

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