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Well, I’m not disappointed. That’s the most important takeaway, I suppose. The novel is not nearly as good as The Weight of Ink, but I wasn’t expecting it to be, and I could still see the budding skill and voice that bloomed in her later book. In Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story, you can definitely […]
Welcome to another booktube trend! Today I’m listing book tropes that I really don’t like to see in books. When I was doing some research and watching Book Tropes I Hate videos on Youtube, I noticed a lot of them included things that boiled down to genuinely bad writing. I’m going to try to avoid […]
A warped face on the bottom of the glass but the child only saw a pig. A pig, and nothing more. She studied the thin, black holes of eyes, nose large and prominent, tip of the upper lip barely visible over the thick white liquid. It was watching her. She drank quicker so it could […]
I dove feet first into the blanket of your love But instead of folds of fabric, I was met with cold water that felt like concrete. My Achilles’ heel broke on impact. My strength waned as I sank to the depths; I started to kick, reminding Mother Nature that I was still her baby. I […]
He made two great lights and called night the lesser, but we choose to embrace the weight of day’s heavier sister, reserving day for all that’s productive, claiming surface fulfillment, but letting the night be the one that’s seductive, saving what’s real for when we cannot see. The lesser light is for making […]
Let me start by saying I could be totally off base here. But it really does appear like this person you’re portraying isn’t you. It’s a little dismaying how every time I look at you, you seem to be someone new. From the truth you are straying and from me. The tricks you’ve […]
I recently published a blog about individual words that I believe society has given disproportionate power. Getting riled about a single word is a bit ridiculous, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be intentional about the words we say. And while this blog is titled “Words I’m Nitpicky About,” I’m more revolting against the definition […]
*I feel it’s very important to say this isn’t a poem, because it violates a lot of things I think are important to poetry. It’s not quite as bad as “instagram poetry,” but it’s not intentionally formed as a poem should be. So I’m calling it a creative rant of social commentary with line breaks.* […]
Dating: the standardized testing of the romantic realm, reducing the human experience into a single goal… a Relationship. Dear scorers, what do you think of my fraction? Relationship Person Under this nonexistent box on this bubble sheet, allow me to explain my answer. Here I’ve put the idea of a relationship over the person. […]
I am an eternal student of literature, and my upcoming career involves manipulating words into an influence. I believe in and admire the power of words, especially when they are strung together in an intentional, masterful way. But I also recognize that it presupposes the idea that people have to be receptive towards those words. […]