Dee's RMST stuff

    W ell then! Ignoring the themes and deep meanings that I barely understand I have to just first stop and take a moment to question what I just read. Simply summarized, lady kills cockroach, goes insane... for over 100 pages. I don't know what I was expecting storyline wise but it was really impressive that an entire novel was created around one event. I wish I had a bit more time to dig into this novel (I procrastinated reading it over break woopsies) but as I don't, I have just had to try my best to understand haha.        Unsurprisingly, its pretty difficult to have a constantly original train of thought about one event occur for essentially an entire novel and I noticed there was quite a lot of repetition throughout. Little phrases and also just ideas (feeling/being unclean was a pretty continuous thing). H onestly the whole thing was pretty hard to read, I got lost a lot and found myself skipping large chunks of text in confusion. However, this repe...

     I am so glad that the past few weeks I have consistently enjoyed the books we have read. Bonjour Tristesse was filled with what reminded me a lot of high school drama. In reality I believe it was the results of both Cecile, the narrator and Raymond, her father struggling to let go of their youth. Anne, Raymond's latest fling turns out to be the change they both needed but Cecile especially did not want to accept into her life. Cecile begins the novella as a ignorant and honestly somewhat spoiled girl. She dislikes that the life she enjoyed living with her father is being changed by Anne, especially after she and Raymond decide to marry. It's not uncommon for kids to be upset when their parents remarry eventually but Cecile's plan to try to sabotage their relationship felt like a lot. I think she knew she was wrong, her frequent switches between feeling remorseful to guilty made it clear that part of her knew Anna was not actually that bad to have in her life. I was e...

       Okay. Agostino was definitely very engaging, I sat down and just read the entire thing in one go. Granted I did have to entirely stop reading, like I mean fully close the pdf and just take a second a few times because just- what? As coming of age novels go, it was definitely not what I was expecting. My first thought as I began to read was of Freud. I have never taken a psychology class and I don't really know much about his weird, weird theories other than this particular one about young boys wishing to be their mother's lover in place of their father or another man. Strange concept, but the idea was painfully obvious in the first parts of this book. As he met the group boys, and, not to be dramatic but, had his childlike innocence ripped from him it seemed his view on his mother changed. He went from taking pride in her and her beauty to being uncomfortable around her, perhaps partially due to jealousy of the man who took her attention away from him but also...