‘Sandcastles’ is my first and so far my only fiction ever written in English. I wrote some little books and stories in French throughout K-12, but for some reason I never got the opportunity to write fiction in English. Perhaps I did and I forgot. Idk. Picture this, we are studying speculative fiction in class, I just finished Frankenstein, The Handmaid’s Tale, Brave New World, and Vathek. Life is shrouded with ominousness. Out of the blue, I am asked to compose my own speculative fiction. I am bewildered. I am […]
This was a fun little essay I wrote for my French class senior year. I’ve found out the past four years that other than writing about books, I love writing about how terrible plastic is for the environment. Which is such a depressing topic but makes for such an interesting research paper. This was fun because instead of going full ham on just never using plastic again, I consider the benefits of plastic for people with disabilities, like plastic straws, and gloves and sterile wrapping in hospitals, but also, the non-plastic alternatives that could be used on other platforms, like in the food and fashion industry, or even using vegetable bio plastics to make all these items compostable instead of just filling up landfills
Boy. This was the true test of patience and perseverance. The Internal Assessment for IB History is a research paper where you choose a very specific question and answer that very specific question very specifically. I chose to do mine on the Women’s lib movement of the 1960s in the US and the impact that women’s emancipation during WW2 had on that effect. I worked on this paper for one angry year and a half. I worked during my summer break. Read some books about it and some more, and s’more. I have a total of 19 different drafts saved on my iPad and 2 final drafts that look nothing like the ACTUAL final draft. It took me so long to get the question itself right, and then find the exact information to answer this question. I kept on finding cool things and saying “gee I’ll add that” and I would send a draft in to be reviewed by my teacher and I’d have 3 pages of pointless info or wonky sources. Also I had originally started this paper on a vintage MacBook de la 2008, which I have come to know I cannot trust, since I lost 7 months of research when it decided to crash while I was editing the doc? Just typing this out fills me with the rage I felt that terrible day…
I was bored and I was looking at the free Apple Books when I found The Canterville Ghost. It sounded interesting and it was quite short! I don’t usually read short stories out of the blue like this. I am typically a strict 300pagesisconsideredashortbook typa gal. The Canterville Ghost may be a short read but I think she’s worth it! Some Details Paperback, 72 pages Published October 31st 2019 by Daunt Books (first published February 23rd 1887) Genres: Classics, Fiction, Short Stories, Fantasy, Humour. Synopsis This is Oscar Wilde’s tale of the […]
The main reason why I wanted to read A Clockwork Orange is firstly because its dystopian and I love reading dystopian novels and secondly because this book is often studied in schools and banned in them too! Just like Brave New World , this book is banned for multiple reasons, mainly for graphic violence and assault (I don’t blame ’em!), although I believe that no book can truly be banned, after all “Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” and When you tear out a man’s tongue, you […]
Just last week I ordered the paperback box set of The Dark Artifices. Sure, I do already have a hardcover first edition of Queen of Air and Darkness but I read Lady Midnight and Lord of Shadows as library books because I knew when the time came I would buy the paperback editions because i just love the spine art they make together and I already have the paperback box sets for The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices and I would really like it if all my books matched formats. Anyway, […]
I lent this book from my library a while back because I noticed my older sister reading it and I thought it was very strange since I’d literally never see her read ever! I thought it must be a good book if it grasped her attention. Some Details Paperback, 288 pages Published September 1st 1998 by HarperPerennial / Perennial Classics (first published January 1st 1932) Genres: Classics, Fiction, Science Fiction > Dystopia Synopsis Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely […]