Okay, here goes. After beginning this ReadAlong perhaps too precipitously back in September, I’m keen now to finish before Christmas. I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to consider the novel more carefully and have been gratified by…
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I hope you’re not becoming too impatient with my posts pleading for your patience. I’ve obviously bitten off more than my traveling self can chew — or write! — with this ReadAlong (plus the whole…
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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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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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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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