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Grit - by Angela Duckworth
Grit â by Angela Duckworth
People have been chasing the key to success ever since the idea was conceived. Itâs ever elusive, a mystery to all but the lucky few who manage to achieve great things within their lifetimes. While the American Dream promises success to anyone who works hard enough, itâs largely a myth, at least for those who suffer discrimination and lack of opportunity. Or is it? Angela Duckworthâs GritâŠ
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Letters Home - by Sylvia Plath
Letters Home â by Sylvia Plath
TW: Depression, suicide.
Everyone knows the story of Sylvia Plath: the successful poet who tragically committed suicide at the age of thirty, her children in the next room. Youâve probably read her semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, too. Letters Home, however, offers an entirely different perspective on her life. The collection of her letters spans her time at Smith College until justâŠ
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Depressing Yet Compelling: A Little Life - By Hanya Yanagihara
Depressing Yet Compelling: A Little Life â By Hanya Yanagihara
I had heard good things about A Little Life, so when its cover â a classic New York tenement building â caught my eye in the bookstore, I bought it. Little did I know that the book was far from a light-hearted narrative of life in the city. Although mostly set in New York, the book is laser-focused on the lives of four (and later just two) friends who met in college; the city is merely theâŠ
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Family Dysfunction: The Corrections - by Jonathan Franzen
Family Dysfunction: The Corrections â by Jonathan Franzen
This book stood on my shelf unread for years. The blurb made me want to have read it, but not to read it. It seemed both shallow (about a family christmas?!) and pretentious: âThe Correctionsbrings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greedâ.âŠ
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A Tortuous Trip: The Voyage Out - by Virginia Woolf
A Tortuous Trip: The Voyage Out â by Virginia Woolf
I picked this book up because of its cover: a soothing view of the sea from a boat. I bought it for the author â it was about time Iâd read some Woolf. I was encouraged by the opening, which had characters that were realistic yet distinct enough to be interesting. It also had irresistible descriptions of London at the turn of the century, arguably the height of its charm.
The honeymoon phase wasâŠ
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Top Five Quick Reads
Top Five Quick Reads
Despite identifying as a bookworm, I often find myself intimidated by big books. Everyone knows how terrible it feels to start a book and fail to finish it (Iâve been doing that a lot lately). The next thing you know, youâve stopped reading altogether. If you recognise any of this, know that youâre not alone, even in the book community. More importantly, Iâve got you covered. Here are my top fiveâŠ
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Part Two
One day, I was checking my emails when the wrong account came up. It was full of emails â around sixty â and I thought Iâd somehow opened the wrong email account. I checked at the top for the name of the email: [email protected] â my blogâs email account. I hadnât checked it since I first made it, when I started my blog. I couldnât believe I had been so stupid to have completely forgottenâŠ
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Excerpt from my latest blog post - Part One of My Blogging Journey, a new series on my personal page offering a behind-the-scenes look at my experience (so far) book blogging. Click the link in my bio to read more đâš
Malala's father's speech
Malalaâs fatherâs speech
What an inspiring and supportive father Malala has! Click below to listen to his outstanding speech: http://www.ted.com/talks/ziauddin_yousafzai_my_daughter_malala?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=button__2014-10-11
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - By Lisa See
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan â By Lisa See
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is set in a remote area in Hunan province in nineteenth-century China. At seven years of age, a âso-soâ girl named Lily is paired with a well-educated girl as a laotong, or âold sameâ, to be emotionally matched and friends for life. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a token of her hopes for their relationship in the future in the form of aâŠ
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My blogging journey - Part 1
My blogging journey â Part 1
This is my blogging journey: the many ups and many, many more downs. At first I though Iâd just write about difficulties with posting enough and balancing reading and blogging with school, but I soon realised that my âjourneyâ â which Iâve been chronicling ever since I started blogging â deserved to be shared. I hope that you relate to it, if not because youâre a reader and a blogger yourself,âŠ
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My take on Pride and Prejudice: not just a book about marriage
Pride and Prejudice is one of those books I always felt I should have read. I didn't even know what it was about, just that is was written by Jane Austen and considered a classic. But although I felt guilty for not reading it, I would never have gotten around to it if it hadn't been for the film.
â©I came across the film on Amazon Prime, spotting Keira Knightley and some attractive man (Matthew MacFadyen) on the cover. Although apprehensive, I was intrigued, so decided to watch it.
â©I loved it; everything about it: the voices, the clothes and, most of all, the entertaining yet authentic characters. After watching the film, I knew that I had to read the book, and that I might even enjoy it (and what's more, understand what's going on, which is more than I can say about every Dickens I've attempted).
â©That night, I picked it up. It was slow-going at first, but the zingy one-liners kept me going. Even that too oft-quoted first sentence possesses a magical quality:
â©It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
â©This book does have a plot, too, of course, but I must stress: its beauty isn't borne from any complicated plot intricacies or exotic location descriptions. It's in the characters and their small yet significant interactions. Strictly speaking, Pride and Prejudice is about a group of sisters looking for men to marry. Most if not all of them make a fool of themselves in the process. There are rich, attractive men, and less rich, certainly less attractive men. There are old ladies in fancy gowns, horse-drawn carriages, piano fortes, card games. If these details aren't handsome enough to tempt you, then fear not: the book is more than its constituent parts. Yes, it's an enduring, addictive love story - and you won't help but root for our leading couple - but it's also about class differences (even within the same class), character virtues and how overrated first impressions are.
â©If you're still not convinced, read it for Elizabeth. The only Bennet sister who isn't silly and ignorant, she's headstrong, funny, opinionated. To everyone around her, and especially to Mr Darcy, she's enchanting, bewitching. She's a role model, not because of her looks or her charm on men, but for her character. For her kindness, wit, smart, and also for her faults. Perhaps she wasn't a feminist (if they had existed at the time), but she was one of the first female characters for readers to look up to; that's pretty special.â©Finally, Pride and Prejudice is a period piece, offering an insight into Georgian life. If, like me, you're fascinated by this era and its idiosyncrasies, read this book for a front-row seat onto the everyday ups and downs of an (upper) middle-class lifestyle. It's an understanding that you simply can't gain from a history textbook.
â©This book draws you in with its irresistible love story, but keeps you wanting more with its vivid characters, amusing interactions and fascinating details of regency life. I can't say how glad I am for having clicked that Watch Now button - thanks to that movie, I have gained another favourite book to forever return to.
â©I strongly recommend that you give it a try, too. I would even go so far as to (I admit, blasphemously) suggest watching the movie first like me - it's captivating, and less of an investment. You won't regret it.
â©My Ratings (out of 10 As):â©Plot/Story: AAAAAAA (7)â©Writing: AAAAAAAAAA (10)â©Pace: Medium/Slow
As a fairly non-religious jew I donât think I ever appreciated how badass the story of passover was until I considered how it would look to your average egyptian dude living through it
Imagine growing up all your life being waited on by a race of slaves who despite living in squalor cling to the belief that they were the chosen of this omnipotent elder god. You laugh this up, pray to Horus and then go about your day
Then one day, a slave with a robe and staff barges into the palace claiming to be the hand of an elder god and demands liberation. You grab the popcorn and try to get a front row seat while the two highest level clerics in the entire kingdom demolish the guy, then watch in shock as he summons a giant cobra and kills them both in one go.
Then, Over the next 10 days you watch this warlock proceed to flood your rivers with blood, summon hordes of wild vermin, drop a pestilence on your people and livestock.
All the while your king goes off and says âwe donât negotiate with terroristsâ
Its at this point that the hand of a dark and ancient god has had enough, and with a wave of his scepter like a conductors baton, he calls down the fucking reckoning. As meteors stream from the sky, the warlock yells out his incantation. Itâs not an ancient tongue, or poem of dread. Just four simple words: âlet my people goâ. With one more breath he raises his staff, and with the screaming of a million angels he puts out the sun
At this point I should point out that with each plague this sorcerer has turned the domain of one of your gods against you, starting with Sobek: god of the Nile and working his way up until it appears he has struck down Horus: the god of gods.
Your gods are dead, and the only one still alive is your pharaoh: the representative of the gods on earth
Now, with extreme prejudice, this sorcerer summons a fucking angel of death, and one by one it slaughters the heir of every family until your own king, a firstborn himself pleads for mercy and gives in.
As the freed slaves retreat, your king grins and unleashes a sneak attack, pinning the sorcerer and his people between an army and the sea. Finally this sorcerer, who the whispers say was a fallen prince, raises his staff in mock surrender, and when he brings it down the fucking ocean shatters. Leaving a jagged crack for his people to escape
God fucking damn thatâs hardcore
A lovely old bookshop near where I live â€ïžâš
Currently halfway through We, which is often referred to as the inspiration for George Orwellâs 1984. I love Orwellâs iconic dystopian novel as much as the next person, but I have to say I can already tell that We is even better. The protagonist is more intriguing, the love story (not much of a spoiler - when is there not a romantic element) is more complex, and the âworldâ is more extreme yet more vivid. Loving it âš (creds to @leonlikeslife for the recommendation)
Me: Stop buying books and read those you already own!
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