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Our Ferrante ReadAlong Continues, Chapters 21-30 of “Story of the Shoes”

Our Ferrante ReadAlong Continues, Chapters 21-30 of “Story of the Shoes”

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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Reading Enroute — Trains, Planes, and Hotel Rooms . . .

Reading Enroute — Trains, Planes, and Hotel Rooms . . .

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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Ferrante ReadAlong, The Plot Thickens. . .

Ferrante ReadAlong, The Plot Thickens. . .

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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Ferrante Read-Along, Getting Back on Track, Shoe Story, Chapters 1-10

Ferrante Read-Along, Getting Back on Track, Shoe Story, Chapters 1-10

Now that I’m settled in our temporary home in Bordeaux, where I don’t feel the same need I did in Rome to get out of a hotel room and gobble up the city, I’ll see…

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Ferrante Read-along, Adolescence, Postponed . . .

Ferrante Read-along, Adolescence, Postponed . . .

Goodness, What was I thinking? You, perhaps, knowing I was to fly somewhere this past Sunday, that I was embarking on ten weeks’ travel, wondered how I’d ever manage to post on ten more chapters.…

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