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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller is a modern retelling of Achilles, specifically the age-old speculation about the relationship between him and Patroclus, which is actually a little more than I knew about the book going in. This is a quick, entertaining read, though not without its flaws, and I appreciate how Miller made […]
I’ve been into book hauls lately on Booktube, probably because I’ve been in a consumerist mood myself and I want to see what everybody else is reading. They led me to look up the books mentioned, and I was shocked at how much prices have increased over the past few years (I know, everything has […]
**inspired by “The Swing” by Jean-Honoré Fragonard hands at my back pushing forward and up, up, up, the breeze tugging at my face until I felt weightless, the chain squealing in protest, and I looked down at a ground that seemed too big and too far, and my heart jumped. And then back down, down, […]
You recommended that I ignore the feet under me. They’ll guide me. They’ll do all the work. And I bent toward you like a plant toward the sunlight and saw an asymmetrical world. It was only right. I now had character misfitting of you. And I wanted a deed to your mind. You gave […]
Their stepmother had warned them to check the license plates before they got in. It was half right and perhaps it’s because us females learn to rebel against the ingrained teaching to be scared or perhaps it’s because memory is a fickle thing, especially paired against the strong impulse of a moment, or perhaps it’s […]
The world Huxley creates in Brave New World is so vivid and incredibly introduced. He sets the scene up very well in the first chapter, and the rest of the novel flows smoothly after. Just like 1984 by George Orwell, there are aspects of the novel strikingly predictive of our modern world, with its genetic […]
Zweig is the author of my favorite short story, “Letter to an Unknown Woman,” so I had high hopes for his novella Chess Story. I got off work, reread “Letter to an Unknown Woman” to get me into a Zweigish mood, picked up Chess Story, and had read the entire novella by 10:45 that night. […]
“Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it’s not satire, it’s bullying.” – Terry Pratchett Honestly, that sums up my opinions about My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh. It’s a novel about a bully trying to avoid her own emotions through sleeping waaay too […]
“She repented, as of a crime, her past virtue, and whatever yet remained of that virtue was collapsing beneath the frenzied assault of her pride.” Madame Bovary is divided into three parts, and the first part was nothing short of boring. It was droll and floppy, but thankfully, it’s the shortest part of the novel by far. […]
The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn is basically a modernization (or dare I say a knockoff) of Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock. At times, I thought she was taking too much from Hitchcock, so this book made me question the thin line between taking inspiration and copying. But that was really the […]