The Immortal Life of…
Rebecca Skloot
read for a literature course on medicine.
my favourite book. re-reading now that I'm not 16.
currently on Deuteronomy.
read for a literature course on medicine.
Completedread for a literature course on medicine. important perspective on mastectomies.
CompletedHaneke's film is my all-time favourite and reading the book affirmed it. Jelinek so specially articulates the principle of humiliation in the social condition of women and the power dynamic between men and women as a whole. the ending of The Piano Teacher so well expresses a sense of social rejection — a frustation from struggling to be complacent 'enough' — that's best described by reading and watching it yourself.
Completed'modernized' just meaning stripping away anything interesting for the sake of mindless stimulation. preoccupied with cheap subtraction rather than adding anything meaningful. something something consumerism something something.
Completeddiscovered through the wonderful site of my web neighbor blamensir.neocities.org. learned a lot on womens sexuality of the period.
Completedfriend bought it for me from a book sale, thinking it would appeal to me. and it really did. the duration of The Jungle is so miserable until ending with overwhelming hope. something so bittersweet about optimism for revolution in the past… I think a lot about Sinclair's quote, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach." the book's description on the back itself underestimates its radical ideas.
CompletedCompletedassigned for class in high school. more serious than the font on the cover lead me to believe. liked it.
CompletedI wasn't going to log books I never finished but The Agony and the Ecstasy is so long I wanted credit for reaching half way. I was actually really enjoying it but never found the time to pick it up again.
borrowed from a friend, per her recommendation. it was interesting. romanticized, though that wasn't unexpected. Poirier's political commentary on the time is weak — for its title you wouldn't expect the anticommunism. but I was interested.
CompletedI used to have a thing where I didn't like when a work of media addressed its medium, like a movie character that's a movie buff or whatever. but I really enjoyed The Poet X.
Completedassigned for class in high school. the most 'okay' book ever written. but I'm sure it appeals to some more than me. really made me question if this literature class was trying to get teenagers to read at the cost of anything quality — the teacher was a middle aged woman who exclusively read YA.
CompletedCompletedassigned for class in high school, that for whatever reason I chose over Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. my mistake.
Completedassigned for class in high school. the writing doesn't let you think for yourself. Backman spells every idea out to you like to prove he thought it first…
CompletedCompletedread during a summer in Serbia. there was a meme about book Bateman's excessive descriptions of mundane things but that's what was so interesting. it's not like the kill scenes are anything climactic otherwise, which also have a reputation I would rather call 'elaborate' than 'detailed.'
CompletedCompletedCompletedit's been a while but I'm looking through my annotations and I really liked Heaven. for people who really didn't like being 14.
CompletedCompletedCompletedRecommendation? E-mail me!
