“It’s about death!” Teen paranormal romances are all the rage, so when Darcy Patel writes one during the month of November, she lands a huge book deal and moves to New York City with all her money. The readers strap in for the ride; of large apartments with the perfect view of China Town, shopping and eating out and drinking with little to no consequence. In every other chapter we get to read the novel that Darcy is writing as well; called Afterworlds. Darcy’s book […]
Life is far from dull… (cannonball)
The Phantom Tollbooth is a story about a little boy who never knows what to do with himself. Wherever he is he always longs to be somewhere else. Till one day he comes home and a package is waiting for him “For Milo, who has plenty of time.” Inside is a tiny tollbooth and a map to another world. Milo dusts of a toy car he’s never played with and drives through the booth. He drives into a world where the Princess of sweet Rhyme […]
A thank you turned into an essay
This wonderful cannonball book exchange inspired an essay on the importance of the tangible in books; a subject close to my heart. Coming home my apartment seemed slightly bleak and dark compared to the sparkling holidays where my parents lit candles and christmas carols endlessly adorned a gold and silver tree. Instead, in my apartment, on the other side of Christmas, was completely overthrown with books and scraps of paper. It was a reminder of my deadline in January. A deadline that seemed a large, […]
I read The Secret, so you don’t have to
I admit it. Curiosity took me by the nose and all through this terrible book. This book was one long upbeat infomercial about the power of the secret and I was strapped to my chair with those horrid eyeopeners. I knew I was supposed to feel hooked and excited by the power to change my own life. But this book is a soft blanket for rich people who think basic kindness and generosity is a secret superpower to get them what they want. I mean it’s probably […]