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    Hi there! I hope that everyone has enjoyed their easter weekend! For my last week, I choose to read Fever Dream. Although I wish I could've said that I loved this book and that it was the perfect way to wrap this class up…It wasn't m... read full post >>

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin was haunting to say the very least. I read the entire book in one sitting – less out of choice, and more out of an inability to ever comfortably set it down and step away. From the very start, the reader is invaded with anxieties and disorientation. We are placed in […] read full post >>

Reading Fever Dream, written by Samanta Schweblin, felt just like that… a fever dream.  I ended up listening to this book through Audible last week. had a long 4 hour round trip to Abbotsford and back and felt that it was an ideal time to multitas... read full post >>

Reading Fever Dream, written by Samanta Schweblin, felt just like that… a fever dream.  I ended up listening to this book through Audible last week. had a long 4 hour round trip to Abbotsford and back and felt that it was an ideal time to multitas... read full post >>

Despite I was born and raised in Spain and that I had heard about very famous Latin American novels, I had never fully read and studied any of the ones we analyzed in this class, and I had mostly studied Spanish Literature only. However, this class made me discover a different viewpoint on the world […] read full post >>

I read this week’s book in Spanish instead of English, which I guess that helped me sometimes when I was getting lost or confused. Despite intriging and exciting, I found the novel to be very abstract and confusing at many times. It took me a bit to understand who the characters were and the relationship […] read full post >>

Taking this course was really refreshing for me, because of the liberty and autonomy that it gave me for reading and writing about the novels and authors that were presented. Compared to some of my other other courses, SPAN 312 made me engage with the ideas and themes in each story in a meaningful way, […] read full post >>

Last blogpost, I can’t believe it is actually over. At the beginning of the term I thought about how I would feel writing the last blogpost. I thought I was going to feel sick of reading, that I would not want to read another book for the rest of the year. But thankfully, it was […] read full post >>

This week’s reading (and the last book for this term) was definitely something, from trying to figure out what is happening (and the anxiety that comes from within) and also trying to fully understand WHAT is happening. I had a fun time reading Borges, but this book was definitely something to read and now write a blogpost […] read full post >>

 This course has felt really short considering the amount of books we have read. I am truly going to miss this class. I have never felt so happy with the way a course has ended in university before. I really struggle with finding motivation, espec... read full post >>