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  Hello everyone! I hope everyone had a good weekend and enjoyed reading the books for this week. I read Cartucho this week because the description given said that it was stories from the Mexican Revolution but from the perspective of a woman. This is what drew me in to choosing this book in the first place, and overall I found it a really fascinating read.  I found that the collection of short stories really kept me on my toes while reading, as sometimes the stories would connect with each other linearly and sometimes the timelines would be jumbled. At the beginning I thought that Campobello was just starting off with a small story about each individual character in the book in the section titled “Men of the North”. As I read on I discovered that the rest of the book would be filled with these short snippets of memories and stories from the men at war.  I think hearing these very violent and graphic stories from the perspective of a child was kind of mind boggling to me....

  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...