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This week I chose to dive into “Distant Star” by Roberto Bolaño. I enjoyed this week’s reading as it felt like I was reading some sort of mystery crime novel filled with thrilling scenes. As we’ve all realized throughout the weeks, names have importance, and at first glance I thought the novel would be in […] read full post >>

I. Do. Not. Like. Poets. This was my first impression halfway into the book. I don’t like their worldview, or the way they write about experiencing things. I bet these people would’ve been been miserable to hang out with. As the book opened in the setting of college, something about the mood of this book greatly … Continue reading → read full post >>

Hi all, This week I discuss Distant Star. Here, I expand on what life may have been like during the years of late Allende/early Pinochet, the horrendous self-destruction of extreme fascist ideology, and justice (what is it?) I hope you like Machuca, and La muerte y la doncella (if you watch them) Question: Should one … read full post >>

Although the book “Yo-Yo Boing” has a disperse, non-linear structure, I enjoyed reading it while I slowly discovered its unique character. The book is a collection of conversations, showing love, passion, anger, and arguments about diverse topics. There is not a very obvious transition between one topic and the other, sometimes making it hard to […] read full post >>

    My first emotion while reading Roberto Bolano’s Distant Star was shock—the author does not paint the portrait of the artist as a relatively favourable position in Chilean society, but rather bleak by contrast. Through censorship, disappearances and political violence—both overtly depicted as well as presented in artistic mediums in the case of Carlos […] read full post >>

Hi everyone, I was really looking forward to this book this week, especially because I have briefly gotten to do some high-level research into these types of events all throughout Latin America–but I have never gotten to explore the situation in Chile in-depth and have always wanted to. Luckily, Bolaño’s book provides an account or […] read full post >>

 I actually really liked this short novel. This book was for the most part pretty interesting and left me wanting to know more as I went along. However, there were certainly some chapters that ended up feeling a bit lengthy and irreverent when thi... read full post >>

 I actually really liked this short novel. This book was for the most part pretty interesting and left me wanting to know more as I went along. However, there were certainly some chapters that ended up feeling a bit lengthy and irreverent when thi... read full post >>

 Hello everyone! I hope you're all doing great.   This novel's brief length made me very happy because I'm starting to feel my brain erode from this semester. Compared to the several previous books I've chosen to read, it felt relatively... read full post >>

 Hello everyone! I hope you're all doing great.   This novel's brief length made me very happy because I'm starting to feel my brain erode from this semester. Compared to the several previous books I've chosen to read, it felt relatively... read full post >>