Savage Sarajevo

The universe strikes again! I was honestly struggling to find a song that I could compare to Galloway’s novel The Cellist in Sarajevo, until YouTube’s wild algorithms decided to recommend me Marina and the Diamond‘s song Savages. Listen to it for yourself before we dive deep into relating it to the novel: The first […]

Home, not so sweet, home.

I honestly never expected to fall into such a deep pool of negative feelings towards Canada. Canada the way I knew it, or rather, thought I knew it, is a happy, kind, peaceful country full of love an acceptance. This thought was clearly shifted as a result of Tuesday’s group discussion regarding Canada’s ugly and […]

Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Sarajevans

Not gonna lie, I was pretty worried when trying to find an allusion in Steven Galloway’s book The Cellist of Sarajevo to blog about. However, I must say, the universe sure has a way of helping you out in tough situations. I started looking for allusions, then quickly gave up. But as I continued reading […]

I have so many questions I want to ask Lawrence Hill.

Book two of The Book of Negroes was so captivating to read, and lead to interesting discussion in our group’s Socratic circle. As a group, we discussed what happened in the second book and different themes that it concentrates around. We agreed that a major theme of this part of the novel is Aminata’s development […]