The Final Blog Post!
Somehow, it is the final week of the semester. An entire class has slipped away and now this is the…
Week 13 – The Taiga Syndrome
We’ve reached the end of the course, and we’ve done it at perhaps the perfect place: the end of the…
Week 10 – Rigoberta Menchu
This week’s book was heavy in a way I was not expecting. Though Jon warned us of the content in…
Week 9 – The Hour of the Star
This book was one that initially confused me but then really drew me in, and I may go as far…
Week 8 – One Hundred MORE Years of Solitude
We finally reached the second half (and the end) of the generation-spanning novel that made my head spin. I was…
Week 7 – One Hundred Years of Solitude Part 1
This week’s reading has definitely been the most intriguing book for me so far. This novel, its many characters, and…
Week 6 – Pedro Paramo
After Borges, I welcomed the opportunity to read a novel with actual characters and a straightforward plot, so I was…
Week 5 – Labyrinths
This week’s reading was something I have never once experienced. Never before have I read a book, held the pages…
Week 4 – Twenty Love Poems
This collection of poetry was quite intriguing to me. Some poems were more abstract than others and had me having…
Week 2: Mama Blanca’s Memoirs
When reading Teresa de la Parra’s “Mama Blanca’s Memoirs” I was struck by its overwhelming theme of memory, and how…