I've started listening to the Picture of Dorian Gray, and it has a lot of intriguing dialogue so far. I like that Dorian is so jealous of the painting even right from the start. That it will stay young and he will get old is such a painful idea for him, that he brings it …
Stranger Things: Season 2, episodes 3 and 4
This show is getting dark. There is something incredibly creepy about what is happening to Will, and I stayed up late to watch another episode I wasn't planing on because of it. This show really knows how to do creepy and dark, without having obnoxious jump scares or shocking blood and violence. That's something I've …
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Distant love
Fermina and Florintino have broken it off, and the arc of their romance reminds me of many internet relationships of modern day. The two of them communicated nearly exclusively via letters, even though they lived in the same town. Then when Fermina moved away, they continued their correspondence for several years, eventually agreeing to marry--all …
Dual mind
Writing takes love, self confidence, optimism, and hope in order to complete anything. But editing, I am coming to believe, takes hate, pessimism, and self-disgust. A writer has to be two people, two halves isolated from each other--the writing half is an excited person full of energy and love for the words they are creating …
I keep laughing
You know it's a funny book when just thinking about it throughout the day makes you burst out laughing. Me trying to describe it would not do justice to its hilarity, you just have to read it yourself. But... something about this kind of character is just so amusing--the just smart enough to think they …
Jonas David 