Yup, I have once again reread The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for the fourth or fifth time. Mark Twain’s most famous novel is a biting satire of southern society, a coming of age story, a tale of empathy resisting cultural norms, and a foundational “American” novel. Huck Finn, our narrator and protagonist, is a young …
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Love Is Not Constantly Wondering If You Are Making the Biggest Mistake of Your Life. That’s a fact. And this is a fact: I enjoyed this book. It was a quick interesting read in the format of a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book, aptly labeled “not a choose your own adventure” (possibly so it does …
I started my year by rereading All About Love by bell hooks and finished this week, partially because I wanted to savor every idea she presents and partially because Instagram reels has fried my attention span. hooks is a one-of-a-kind thinker and writer that has written some of the most important texts on topics like …
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You know me. I looooove memoirs; it’s what I’m most famous for if you looked me up, which I urge you not to do. I read Sociopath by Patric Gagne, and this is one of the memoirs that I do not really like. A very interesting premise and some cool stories and internal conflicts are …
The premise of Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger, that the author shares a similar name and is confused with another woman who has taken a far-right turn, provides an interesting throughline to explore the doubling/fracturing of our politics, our world, and ourselves. Klein’s obsession with the “Other Naomi,” Naomi Wolf, and her disappearance into the “mirror world” …
I’m not a big sci-fi guy. This is well known by all of humankind. When the people in the future look at the cave drawings I’ve made, they will deduce this about my life. My cave markings, like the book written by the narrator, will be left for whoever finds it, if anybody ever does. …
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All Fours by Miranda July was a complicated and challenging book to dive into. The nameless protagonist undergoes a physical and emotional transformation over the course of the book, from a more conventional domestic lifestyle to an open, liberated lifestyle focused on personal relationships and sexual freedom. This transformation, intimate and existential, happens in tandem …
“They don’t teach cursive in school anymore?” asked Patrick, wiping down the counters by the soda fountain. “Guess not. I never learned it,” Sam admitted, with a mousy shrug. “How are you supposed to sign checks and stuff?” “I don’t know,” she paused. “I just write my name.” “Damn, your generation has completely missed out …
Newborn Kiaba sat still in a tiny hospital bed in Michigan wearing a little monkey t-shirt. Kiaba was suffering from tracheobronchomalacia, a condition where the primary airway in his throat couldn’t fully open. Without immediate intensive therapies, most children with this birth condition die. While he lay with tubes and wires weaving in and around …
“I’m going to kill God and I’m feeling pretty nervous about it,” I told my mom one evening after school. “I can’t believe I’m gonna be the one to do it, out of everybody in the entire grade, they chose me!” “It’s a big responsibility, Ryan,” my mom answered, chuckling. “Though you shouldn’t say …
