Week 2: “Mama Blanca’s Memoirs” (De La Parra)
Hi everyone! I found this week's reading rather interesting as I haven’t read a lot of memoirs in the past. I am not a very fast reader so this reading took me a while and I found myself doing it in shorter blocks of time, which I wish I hadn't as I felt like every time I began again I was reading something completely different. For next week I am going to try and read the reading in longer sit down sessions so I can truly absorb the content more and not feel so out of place when I start reading it again. That being said, I did enjoy this book as I loved its attention to detail, especially when discussing the hair or the features of her other family members. I always appreciate this attention to detail, as for someone who watches a lot of film and TV (being a film major) it helps me to paint a more detailed image in my head, which overall makes the story more interesting to me. I found the part where she was discussing in intense detail about her hair and how her mother fe...