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  Hi everyone! I hope everyone had a restful and relaxing break. I have to say I am really enjoying this book so far. When I first saw the family tree at the beginning I thought I was in for a long, hard, and confusing book (which this one was at times), but mostly I found myself being fascinated by the multitude of stories and characters in the book. From the founding of the town, the gypsy arrival, seeing ice, love triangles, incest, this book had it all. I particularly enjoyed reading about the marriages between Rebbecca and Crepsi and then Aureliano and Remedios. I loved the sibling (or adopted sibling) rivalry that grew between the adopted Rebbecca and Amaranta. The anticipation of the weddings and what was going to happen kept me hooked to the book for a bit.  Jon and his lecture were definitely correct when he said that this was a book you have to stick with more than just pick it up when you feel like reading. I get very distracted easily and have a hard time focusing,...

  Hi everyone! I hope everyone is surviving their midterms! I have to say I rather enjoyed this book. I am a big believer in ghosts, spirits, and honestly anything supernatural. That being said, I haven't read or watched many interpretations of ghosts like this. The way Rulfo has depicted the ghosts or spirits in this novel makes them feel very real and almost visible to those who want to see them. At first I was kinda lost when the mule driver was talking about how his father was dead, but he still continued on the journey to find him in the town. Then as it went on I got the idea that the majority of characters in this novel were ghosts or were on the brink of becoming them.  I really enjoyed the part where Dyada was talking about how his mother had just informed her he was coming. Dyada says, “that is the reason her voice was so weak, as if it had to travel a long way in order to reach me. Yes, now I understand”. I thought that this idea of communication between the dead ...

  Hi everyone! I was reading some of the blogs before I started to write mine and noticed that a lot of people already had an idea or knew about Jorge Luis Borges. I had never heard about him before nor was I familiar with any of his other works. I decided to do a little research on him after reading the novel for this week, since I really struggled with trying to understand most of it. The website I was reading talked about how the majority of his work played with the themes and concepts of the intersection between dreams and reality. I think once I understood this I was able to understand a little bit more of what some of the stories were about. The first story in Labyrinths “ Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”, took me a while to understand that he was talking about fictional worlds that he had created.  The lecture was talking about the intersectionality of “play” in Borges works. I think that this is very evident in this story. When describing Tlön and its values on philosoph...