Category: Opinions
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The Poppy War Had Promise But Wasn’t Quite What I’d Hoped
Three-hundred pages in and I felt like Kuang had yet to really hook me with any narrative weight. Worse, I realized I had been carried along for all those pages on a wave of story beats built entirely upon tired tropes of the fantasy genre.
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Pride & Prejudice’s Characters Evolve into a Perfect Denouement
In the denouement, Lizzy’s interactions with her parents lays out the balance of pride and prejudice that she and Darcy need to attain to find happiness together. Mr. Bennet insists on Lizzy maintaining a level of pride in her own self-worth as she deserves not an advantageous marriage but a happy, loving one with an…
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The Rings of Power is the Right Direction for Tolkien’s Work
Tolkien could very well have been writing his world based on his understanding of systems of power in the Middle Ages which, admittedly, was heavily white-favored. That doesn’t mean we can’t call out his writing as incorrect and make changes to it.
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Nevernight and Second Readings
There is a certain thrill that I feel when I crack open an old copy of a book. It’s exciting thinking about reliving the moments within, from the victorious action scenes to the heartbreaking tragic ones.
Blake is Reading 