Andrew Andrew

As we wrap up this semester, reflecting and looking back throughout what I have done in this course  seems pretty crazy to me. One of my new year resolutions was to read more books than the previous year  (which was 1) and this course helped me achieve that! As I signed the contract, I was a bit unsure about aiming for an A- as it required me to read 9 books out of 11, but it was far more enjoyable than what I had anticipated. I enrolled for this course as it sounded extremely enticing and I wanted a change of scenery from the stats and mathematics courses I have been taking. And let me tell you, it was the change I was looking for. One of the reasons why I enjoyed this course so much was the significant freedom and creativity it granted us when writing about the books we read. This gave me less stress and pressure and allowed me to focus more on expressing what I was genuinely interested in for each book. I will admit, there were a couple of books that I wanted to just breeze...

With this being the 9th and final book I am reading for this course, it feels very melancholy. As I am not a big fan of reading books in general, having read a book almost every week for this term feels like a major accomplishment. In addition, some of the books I genuinely actually enjoyed such as "Money To Burn" - Ricardo Piglia. Unfortunately, the last book of this term was not one of them. "Faces in the crowd" - by Valeria Luiselli was a very confusing read with multiple main characters, such as the young mother with a messy marriage and Owen, a divorced, going blind alcoholic. The way the novel switches between these two and as well, them talking about their present and past and not highlighting any of the change of perspectives makes me extremely confused throughout the whole read. In the first half of the novel, it was more about the struggling mother of two kids that is married to an architect. As she recollects her past memories when she used to frolic arou...