Edited to add: Thanks so much to Lisa for linking to this post and welcome to any visitors from Amid Privilege’s reading post. Although I’ve just written the last post in this Readalong, you’re very…
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I’m determined to post another Ferrante ReadAlong entry soon, but I’ve hardly been a monogamous reader — and my travel status tends to encourage Vacation Reading. If the move into the year’s darker days has…
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It seems to me that in this section we start to see these adolescents, nearing adulthood, beginning to sort out ways to exercise some agency, to try to make a difference, to change their communities…
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Settled in Bordeaux now, and I’m hoping to get back to a more regular blogging practice, but we’ll see… I’ve read the next ten chapters of Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend for our ReadAlong, and I’m putting…
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As I begin re-reading Chapter 11 of “The Story about the Shoes,” the section of Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend recounting the girls’ adolescence, I see the easy temptation to think poorly of Lenù for…
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