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 Hi, fellow readers, This is the last obligatory book we must read, and we are almost at the end of this term! We were to read "Money to Burn" by Ricardo Piglia this week. I was not expecting this book to be as disturbing as it was. This is the most disturbing book I have read. Although, I haven't read that many books in my life. This book was hard to follow and not the easiest to read in an understandable way; however, I didn't find myself dozing off as much as I did for Proust. This book focused on killing, sex and drugs, and I was not here for it. One thing I learned about myself while reading this book was that I am a sensitive reader, and this book was hard to read. I honestly was surprised at some parts and was shocked by what was written down on paper. I had to accept what was said and move on while reading. Therefore, I did not enjoy this book. We talked about this in the "Time of the Doves" class about reading for analysis and academics. I didn'...

  Hi everyone! I enjoyed reading Marguerite Duras's autobiography The Lover but was shocked and skeptical. This story starts when her whole family is together, but then her father dies, leaving her family without any incoming income, so they go to Saigon. Her younger brother becomes an accounting clerk, and her mother becomes a teacher who desperately wants her child to get an education, especially in math. This story takes place at the end of the 1920s. In my blog post, I will talk about the eldest brother, the relationship between Marguerite and her lover, and how Marguerite fantasizes about her love with her lover and wants one of her friends to experience it, even with her lover.  In the Early pages, we understand who her eldest brother is and how Marguerite feels about him. She did not like how much her mother loved him, and because of the way he bullies Marguerite and his family, she wanted to kill him. "I wanted to kill my elder brother, I wanted to kill him, to get the...

 Hi, Everyone. I hope you are all doing well.  When I started this novel, I thought it would be just an ordinary story. As I started reading it, I thought it might be about this man who gets on a train on a winter's night and stops at places where he may have some adventures as he is a traveller and stops at a bar at his first stop. That's how much titles have significance on how we view and think about the novel, as discussed in the last class with Jon Beasley Murray when reviewing The Time of the Doves. However, as I read, I needed clarification on this book because I was confused when I got to chapter two. The story had stopped. I enjoyed the beginning and how it referred to us as the reader. I appreciated that instead of moving right into the story. It makes us more drawn to the story, and we learn how it is structured. As I got to chapter two, I realized that the narrator told me that the book the reader is reading (not the book we are reading) repeats every 30 pages, not...