A blog about books, the publishing world, and maintaining ultimate litness.
I made the mistake of waiting too long after I read the book to write this review, so my feelings are not entirely fresh in my mind, but I do remember I found the book very moving. I appreciated a woman’s tale during a period where we don’t have many of those. Anita Diamant’s The […]
Mary Oliver’s poetry collection “Red Bird” is the first I’ve read of her. I think “Devotions” is the recommended collection to start with, so perhaps that was my mistake, but I didn’t really connect to any of her poetry. But I’ve also heard that Mary Oliver mainly writes about nature, and I honestly like to […]
I had a very rare impulse to read nonfiction, so I picked up one of the random nonfiction books that I’ve had for forever but never read. Redefining Anxiety by Dr John Delony is an extremely quick read that I read in maybe 2 hours. I agree with most of the sentiments/judgments about how anxiety […]
I first read The Sun Also Rises my freshman year of college, and I reread it for the sole purpose of figuring out my favorite Hemingway out of the three I’ve read: For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, and obviously The Sun Also Rises. I can now affirmatively say that The Sun […]
Around halfway through the book, I was thinking maybe this book wasn’t doing it for me, though I didn’t dislike it and definitely didn’t want to stop reading it. I just wasn’t as invested as I wanted to be. And then I stayed up until 3:30 in the morning to finish the second half because […]
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 […]