Compared to the last two weeks, I enjoyed the reading much more this week and I think that has to do with the fact that this is a short novel which follows more of the traditional way a story is told. This book compared to last week’s did have an actual story which made it easier to read for me, which I enjoyed.
The fact that I was actually enjoying the book made me feel much more attracted to the reading and though the last half of the book I felt a necessity to finish it as fast as I could, which is something I don’t usually experience with books but that was very enjoyable. Although I did enjoy the reading very much, throughout the reading I felt sad and this is part of where my question for this blog is going to be.
I felt sad because throughout the reading I felt like even though the woman that narrates the book is already dead, I felt a little bit like that might be the feeling that someone that is very sick might have. These thoughts of reliving the most important moments of your life, I believe that those could be part of the thoughts that someone who is very sick might be experiencing. Throughout the book I was thinking how the narrator only mentions things that were important to her and not really stuff that is ordinary in our lives. She mentions all these different love stories which I thought she was remembering as those were the parts of her life that were important to her. Because of this I related the whole book to the life of someone that is very sick and that might be experiencing the last moments of their life which is the reason I got sad with this book.
Even with all of that i can still say that this is a reading that I like a lot more than last weeks and I wanted to relate my question to how I felt thought out the entire reading, because of that, my question for this reading is if anyone felt sad throughout the reading as I did or in the case that did not happened, if you felt any specific emotions reading this book.
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I also enjoyed this reading for its thrilling, albeit brief, nature. Although following the traditional structure of the story like you mentioned, I noted in my blog post that there seems to be a killing of convention in the way the protagonist is presented, especially seeing as she is not alive in the first place. This is what lends the story to a modernist approach overall, and like the rest of romance literature, is made experimental through flashbacks and unique perspectives.