Lauren's Blog

  Hey everyone! I can’t believe it is our final blog post of the semester, I don’t know about you all but the last few months have flown by for me. When I first started this course, I honestly didn’t think I would like it at all. It seemed like a lot of reading so I was just trying to get through my literature requirement, but now that I’m reflecting back on the course this semester, I actually did enjoy it. One of my favourite things about this course was that our blog posts didn’t have to be perfect pieces of writing. I think that took off a lot of pressure in this course because I felt like I could truly just share my thoughts as they came to me, not having to make sure it was exactly what the professor wants to hear. It was also the first time I had actually read all of the required readings/books for a course before. I think we have all been in courses where we may skip some readings or skim through books, but the books we read throughout the course were enjoyable (for the most pa

    Hi Everyone!   Many of the novels we have read so far have been confusing for me in the beginning, but then make sense as I get further along in the book. There had always been a point that I begin to understand what exactly is going on. Unfortunately, that was not the case for the novel we read this week. Although Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli wasn’t necessarily a difficult read, in fact it was probable one of the easiest because the sentences flowed nicely, it was still chaotic and impossible to understand fully. I kept hoping that by the end it would all connect and I would know who’s life we were following and how they all connected but that did not happen.   After about 5 or 6 pages I realized that we were switching back and forth between the woman’s current life and her past. However she kept saying it was fiction, which I hardly believe. Then all of the sudden it switched to a male narrator which I later realized was Owen. When Owen got to the part where he was talk