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 Hello All, 

Thanks for reading my blog posts thus far. I had a lovely time in this class and I hope you all did too. This class for real saved me in its flexibility with being able to choose how many books we read. I loved being able to plan it out myself and I felt very fulfilled in the creative directive granted with the blog posts! Being able to choose how we respond to these books, instead of having to follow a specific format allowed for honesty and genuineness. The structure of having to read these novels definitely got me to read books I wouldn't have previously picked up and I am glad for that as I think they were worth reading. 

I really enjoyed the various writing styles presented in this class and the ways in which they often challenged my reading. I also loved being able to hear everyones different interpretations on the novels and I especially found those insights to be helpful in navigating the content. The lecture videos also proved to be helpful in gaining both background knowledge and helpful tidbits. I found the books I deemed most enjoyable were the ones that made me reflect on my own life and ones that made me a little sad. I found that this was more often with the woman narrators, perhaps because I found I could relate to them more. I could relate to Proust in his description of being transported to a memory but not in the way I could relate to Bombal and her depiction of patriarchal standards for women. 

I think my favourite novel was probably The Shrouded Woman. I too like to reflect on my past, I mean I don't wait until my death bed to do it but to each their own. I found the ending of returning to earth, surrendering and giving your body back to it really resonated with me. I think my least favourite was definitely Deep Rivers, I just found it didn't really stick out all that much to me and I didn't really care for the story line. Apparently neither did my grandpa because I gave him the book to read and he called me saying "Lauren what the hell did you give me to read?? I had to stop reading, nothing happens!" While I do acknowledge that things so in fact happen in this novel, I don't think the story was really told in a way that resonated with me. 

My question for you is; If you could have added one book to our reading list what would it be? 

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  1. Daniel OrizagaApril 9, 2024 at 9:16 PM

    Ahhh... well, Deep Rivers is not an easy book. Now I'm curious, what kind of books does your grandfather like? Let's see if he likes one like My Brilliant Friend, which is great. Happy summer to you!

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