Andrew Andrew

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...

This week's book is "Money To Burn" by Ricardo Pigila. Personally, I think this book is definitely the most action-packed, engaging read so far. Even though it was a bit on the longer side with around 200 pages, the constant adventures the characters are put through makes it very intriguing to read. Moreover, I do enjoy watching or reading thriller or action-adventure packed stories. This book was about a group of men robbing banks throughout Buenos Aires as if they were invincible but eventually after many police reports, their crime caught up to them. What makes this book different, yet similar to the books we have read so far is the the trope of family and how important that is to the characters in this novel.  Although their blood ties with family members may not hold as much over the men's lives, the novel portrays the group of robbers as a closely-knit family. Through the numerous crimes they had done, it built a sense of trust, camaraderie and loyalty between e...