What are you reading this week of November 29, 2015?

[Conch]

17. Pedro Paramo by Juan Ruflo

Began easily enough but the challenges of different narrators and knowing if the characters are dead or alive made the middle of the book a challenge.

I teach 8th grade and try to read this during an independent reading time but always have to keep an eye on the 30+ kids in my room. That might have made the book seem more challenging than it might have otherwise.

Interesting plot of a son fulfilling the wish of his dying mother that he go to find his father in their former village and Rulfo can tell a story. Still, it was a challenge to gnaw through the middle of the book.