I haven't posted in a while. Hello! I'm still alive, and still sort of a writer. I just haven't been putting my thoughts to blog very often. In my search for something to have an opinion about, I went to the good ol' Wikipedia Random Article button. And though I didn't find much inspiration, I …
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, by Claire North
I just finished reading this, and though it was very clever, and a fresh idea and extremely well written with beautiful prose, identifiable characters and vivid emotions and exciting action, it was also incredibly irritating. It is another iteration of the timeless story of the villain trying to accomplish something, and the hero trying to …
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The Martian: A Novel, by Andy Weir
An action packed thriller about one man trapped on Mars. I couldn't put this one down. Mark Watney is part of an expedition to Mars that goes terribly wrong, forcing his crew-mates to leave him behind for dead. What follows is his desperate struggle to stay alive as long as possible until help can arrive. …
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
This was a strange book, very atmospheric and more than a little creepy. Our unnamed protagonist, 'the biologist' (none of the characters are named in the entire book) is part of an expedition to 'area x' where reportedly very unusual things happen. The other expeditions that have gone before hers have rarely returned, and when …
Old things
I dug around in the attic at my parents house today. I found stacks of pictures and boxes of old toys, some artwork I made in my highschool art class and... a journal. It turns out I kept a journal for around 9 months when I was 16-17, writing in it nearly every other day. …
Jonas David 