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 […]
My Anchor to God: A Poem
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 […]
Book Review: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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 […]
Book Review: Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
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. […]
Book Review: My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh
“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 […]
Book Review: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
“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. […]
Book Review: The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn
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 […]
Book Review: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
I love how last week, I was thinking about how I was craving a book that induced a strong emotion in me, and that very same day, I finished For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway and quite literally bawled. Seriously, I cried harder than I have for a hot minute. So produce a […]
Book Review: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
I usually like to start my reviews with the good aspects of a book before moving on to the bad, but for 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, the good is rather miniscule and only qualitative in comparison to the boring, brainless, repetitive nonsense of the rest of the book. All I can say is that the […]
Book Review: Normal People by Sally Rooney
I can totally understand the hype surrounding Normal People by Sally Rooney now. I did watch the hulu series a couple of years ago with some friends, which I regrettably thought was influencing my reading when I started the book, but before I got halfway through, the novel was standing on its own two feet. […]