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Review: Children of Men by P.D. James
The Children of Men by P.D. JamesMy rating: 1 of 5 starsView all my reviews (goodreads) This is going to be a very informal review. And a negative one at that. I cannot stress how disappointed and angry I was at this dumb novel! I watched the movie in my film class, and was enchanted. Continue reading
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Pride and Prejudice- Charlotte’s Marriage was just as Logical as Elizebeth’s (if not more so)
Jane Austen’s classic 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice stars a girl with ideas and goals that are seen by her father, and evidently by the narrator, as more mature than her peers, including her mother, sisters, and best friend Charlotte. The portrayal of Charlotte’s marriage in the book ultimately illustrates how the novel fails to Continue reading
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Notes on Maladaptive Daydreaming and Other Coping Mechanisms in A Little Princess
Sara Crewe is an adorable and good-natured character written by Francis Hodgson Burnett. As a kid, I loved the Shirley Temple movie version as well as the “og” book. Sara really does reflect a princess out of a Disney movie with her hope and positivity transcending her circumstances even to the point of horrific abuse Continue reading
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Review: Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
I recently took a trip to the library while at home for winter break and picked this book off the shelf with varying expectations. On one hand, the premise seemed exciting- a mother witnesses her son commit a murder, and then wakes up the next day to relive the day. She’s in a time loop- Continue reading
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The Top Five Worst Books I Read in 2023
I’ve recently adopted a motto- life is too short to finish books you don’t like. As a result, there aren’t too many books that I hate that end up completed. However, I wanted to do a fun twist on the “top ten” genre of posts and rank the worst books of the year. Unfortunately I Continue reading
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Frankenstein and the Responsibility of Creation
Is the creator of a living being directly responsible for the care of the creature after birth and are they indirectly responsible for the creature’s mistakes? I was thinking of what the central theme of Frankenstein could be, and I settled on this. In Mary Shelley’s novel the central character, Victor, after years of studying Continue reading
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Poems as Maps
The art of poetry is an approach to communicating information in a richly visual way, one which has the ability to describe places beyond the extent of maps. Instead of literal pictures with labels, poems map the human train of thought and how one may respond to a place if present. Taiyon J. Coleman wrote Continue reading
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The Other Mother isn’t the Scariest Monster in Coraline
Coraline by Neil Gaiman is a creepy but child-friendly book that has achieved worldwide success as well as being adapted into a movie. While the central story follows an escape from an evil doppelganger, this bestseller is hiding something so much bigger than the “Other Mother.” By reading closely the contradictions of the Other Father’s Continue reading
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The Invisible (Life?) of Addie LaRue
Dr. George Berkeley famously asked in the 1600s, “if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” While a person who reads this quote acknowledges that the tree does, in fact, make a sound, they understand that the real question is whether or not Continue reading
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Lady Macbeth Was Never a Feminist Icon
Lady Macbeth is hailed as a character who defies gender roles and the patriarchy, but is actually nothing of the sort, as her ideas of masculinity and the role she chooses to play prove her the opposite. In fact, Lady Macbeth upholds the patriarchy and encourages stereotypical gender roles. Her reaction to the letter when Continue reading
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