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50 Book Challenge: Book the Twenty Fifth - Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner
This book was an amazingly intense read, and I had been warned that it would be. There were times when I just had to close the book, hold it in my lap and stare out of the window for a while. It is a simple story about the complexities of humans, in all our frailness and fear. It is a complex story about the simplicity of honour, respect and love.
50 Book Challenge: Book the Twenty Fourth - Muriel Barbary's The Elegance of the Hedgehog
I can see why this is a book club book, there's plenty to pull apart and there's some nice ideas and poetic writing. It didn't really move me, though. I just felt like a middle-aged hipster, and I've got ten more years before I'm meant to feel like that so I don't appreciate it. I liked the dual voices but the book's ending made one of those voices highly unreliable. I mean, I'll probably see the movie when I can get my hands on it, but meh. Y'anno? Clearly, I'm a philistine.
50 Book Challenge: Book the Twenty Second - Jingo by Terry Pratchett
There are times a girl just needs something a little light-hearted, but not stupid. This is what Terry Pratchett is perfect for. Jingo is an exploration of Othering, war, politics and leadership. It is (of course) hilarious, but it is also thoughtful and provocative. Although this book was written in 1997, it is a text of continues relevance that belongs on the modern curriculum.
The story follows the political relations between Ankh Morpok and Klatch after the discovery of Leshp, an Un-Atlantis that rises from the sea. Naturally, shenanigans ensue as both countries try to lay claim to the "new" landmass. This book focusses on the Watchmen's adventures both in and out of Ankh Morpok (I admit though, I love the Death stories best). It is a strikingly relevant allegory in the shadow of 9/11's tenth anniversary.
50 Book Challenge: Book the Ninteenth - Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis
I sped through this book in the space of one afternoon. It grabbed me, pulled me into Iran in the late 1970s, dragged me to Europe, then back to Iran and then threw me into the couch in front of the evening news where the whole damn thing played out all over again. This book is, in a way, linked to my research as I’m looking at autobiographical representations in transmedial (or in this book’s case, transmodal) literature, but… um… honestly, I picked it up because I’d had a conversation at one of the conferences I’d attended recently with someone I’d developed an almost instant (and probably flagrantly obvious) crush on and she’d raved about the book. What? I’m superficial like that and I have *no* game. And she was really cute and smart. Hello, that’s like kryptonite.
Anyway. Persepolis, provides a heartbreaking insight into what it is to be othered within one’s own culture and to find one’s culture othered in the wider world. It explores an unstable world through the eyes of a young, dynamic, and thoughtful woman as she grapples with her position within. Graphic novel form provides an emotive quality that might otherwise be hard to find in the simple and unapologetic language. The aesthetic is simple, almost spare but suits Satrapi’s voice. This is definitely a book I will read again, that I will pass on to others and that I will more than likely incporporate into my research. I’m also going to track down the cinematic adaptation of this text, although I’m not sure I’m going to be able to watch it on my own.
WARNING: THIS SONG HAS BEEN KNOWN TO "MAKE IT ALL BETTER".
Part the Second
I bring Louboutins, Lace and Locks.
Cinders needs some combat boots to make this outfit.
Part the First
These are a mix of my 3 favourite things: Feminism, Fairy Tales and Fabulous Hair.
Rocking.
50 Book Challenge: Book the 15th - Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Yes. I get it. Charlie Sheen ain’t got shit. There are no drugs on this earth that Thompson hadn’t taken. But both of them are only doing what Kerouac did before them. Take drugs, drive fast cars, listen to loud music and search for some strange idea of The Truth. Awesome. Got it. Kerouac did it while American Capitalism was going through a downswing, but he did it with hope, while Thompson’s tract seems to overflow with despair.
