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  Hi everyone! I hope you all had a nice weekend and are having a good sunny start to the week! This week I chose to read A Distant Star written by Roberto Bolaño. I have to say this may be the book I enjoyed the most so far. The majority of the book felt like a really long episode of Criminal Minds, which is one of my favourite shows. I just felt kinda hooked from the beginning with all the talk about the arts, the poet society, and the obsession with the twins. I really enjoyed how this book used descriptive language, as I felt like I have been looking for that in the past couple of books as I need it to make a real clear image in my head of the events. I have to say the first killing of the aunt of the Garmendia sisters kind of took me by surprise. I was expecting a mystery murder type book but not so quick off the bat. However, I probably should have expected that it would be the character who seemed like an outcast from the rest of the poets, and had a particular liking toward...

  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 ...