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April 3, 2015
2015 Reading Challenge, Book 10: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
As I said last week, this book made me very angry. The whole TL;DR version is that the snobbery of the characters, including lower working class protagonist Richard Papen, was not a device but an attitude bled throughout the book. One too pervasive to be dismissed as a mere plot point or character facet. Yeah, I got pretty angry and disgusted reading this, for all the wrong reasons. We’re supposed to be horrified by the actions of these kids but I was entirely unsurprised. Why wouldn’tthey ac...
April 1, 2015
Poetic Interlude… Eyes and Emptiness
The clock sucks seconds
Minutes
Hours
This week I lost down the sofa
In a back pocket somewhere
A month gone musty
A year screwed up at the bottom of a bag
Like a forgotten receipt
Heart pumps liquid
Lungs breathe air
Wet
Hot
Jolts of panic like fireworks
The rattle of bullets in a ribcage
It was a heart and now is a gun
In rapid fire
Shoots me full of holes
Losing minutes
Seconds
Hours
I lose a lot like this
Little pieces, gobbets, chunks
I’m scrap...
March 27, 2015
2015 Reading Challenge, Book 9: The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin
I made a decision with this book, the ‘Bookwith magic in’, to return to fantasy. I’ve avoided fantasy since my late teens as I kinda got super bored of it. A lot of it felt the same and/or too feckin’ long. Too much stodgy world building, sexist depictions of women, tiresome tropes used the same wayand ridiculous names you couldn’t even pronounce, so you’d end up giving characters dumb nicknames or else just notcarry on reading. Yeah, I got very fed upand made the choice to stick toscifi whic...
March 23, 2015
MHM 4 – Avoidant Personality Disorder and Schizoid Personality Disorder
Time to talk about these puppies. I think some of the most acute moments of ‘suffering’ as it were can come from the most unexpected places. I often find the effects of these two disorders more difficult to deal with than the larger symptoms of my cyclothymia and depression. They do, I suppose, amplify the associated problems and turn an obstacle into an insurmountable object. Not all of the time, but a lot of it for sure.
I get brutally honest in this about how much these disorders affect my...
March 20, 2015
2015 Reading Challenge, Book 8: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Time for book 8 in my challenge (imagine challenge in Megamind’s voice, cos that’s how I generally say it), and it’s the book that’s been adapted into a tv show. I chose Wolf Hall. I like a bit of La Mantel in general, and this book was one that sat on my to-read list and then my shelf for the loooongest time. Almost wrote tome there instead of time, and of course it is one, but I whizzed through it and here are my very brief thoughts about it.
TL;DR – fucking ace!
You can buy this book in t...
March 18, 2015
Favoured Fives… Bond Movies
Well then, I said it might take a while for me to sort which of these movies was a favourite, and I was right. Could I point out that none of the ‘new’ Bond movies are included in this (I loathe Brosnan’s Bond and his movies and though I love Craig’s movies I felt I had enough to pick from without (not to mention them being way too different from the older ones), so I excluded them), I’ve stuck to the old ones as they’re the ones I grew up loving and watching obsessively whenever they were on...
March 13, 2015
2015 Reading Challenge, Book 7: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
I may have read this character entirely wrong, but these vlogs are all my opinion so I went with my opinion. I had significant problems with this book. Many thoughts about what concerned me reside within this week’s (much shorter) challenge vlog. I think it’s important to reiterate here that I enjoyed reading this book right up until I finished it and began thinking seriously about what the ending suggested about the content beforehand. It’s well written and very engaging and I certainly woul...
March 11, 2015
Poetic Interlude… Conspirators
A plume of white smoke
Trails the steam train of your laugh
Cold tipped lips
Dyed purple
Ravishing
The sky winks and snaps
Bluest eye
Cut by the white drift
Of complacent cloud
We are differently indifferent
You to cold
I to time
And we ride the day side by side
Conspirators
�� Ren Warom 2015
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March 9, 2015
MHM 3 – Clinical Depression
Here’s week three of Mental Health��Mondays, covering the topic of clinical depression. The symptoms, the reason��I��first suffered an episode of clinical depression��and why I��continue to. I give a very brief history of the circumstances leading to my first episode, in order to educate a little in how problems can build and multiply, leading to collapse.
I include some possibly triggery stuff herein: suicidal ideation/thoughts, bullying, physical and psychological abuse. So please watch with...
March 6, 2015
2015 Reading Challenge, Book 6: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
So, to book 6! Herein are my thoughts on the magnificent Ancillary Justice. After this there’s a bit of a scifi drought in the challenge, which to be fair was kinda the point, but I’ve wanted to read AJ forever, so in it went, I have zero regrets!
Enjoy my ramblings, usual��buying��linkies below.
Next week I have a coupla normal blog posts planned in addition to MHM and Reading Challenge Friday.
You can buy Ancillary Justice on Amazon��UK here.
And on Amazon US here.
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