Call this a dystopia, and maybe it is. But it isn’t. Unless we wish to look at our own world as a potential utopia, and god I really hope we don’t do that, then this just isn’t a dystopian novel. Nor is it an authoritarian one, even though it involves authoritarianism, and nor is it post-apocalypse, because there’s no apocalypse. Instead, it’s a future novel. It’s a novel about a future Japan in which the world has been rocked by earthquakes and tidal waves, alongside […]
As for the students, anyone might think we left them bewildered.
I am always on the lookout for readable and clear instructions and advice for better writing for students. I will often give chapters from books about particular types of writing in lieu of textbook reading, a) because we don’t have enough textbooks and b) because I want more precision and specificity in my advice. It’s easy to correct bad writing. It’s hard to teach good writing. There’s a hard balance to strike between not only those two aims, but also between giving too much advice […]
I’m not sure I understood it, but I liked it?
“The world is hard and unforgiving, it can change you. Because we’re made up of all the things that happen to us. The good things fill your heart. But the bad things, and what we choose to do with them, really make us who we are…” Okay, so this was a weird one and I’m not sure I grasped everything that went down. I’m not at all familiar with Doom Patrol, so I don’t have any prior knowledge coming into this. I liked My Chemical […]
Neither Character Is As Awful As I Thought They Were In the Last Book
Ahhh what glowing praise I’ve bestowed upon the characters in my title. hahaha. I won’t be able to talk much about the plot of this book unless I was willing to talk about some major plot points from the second book because you might want to read that book. I personally never want to read that book ever again as it destroyed two characters that I loved in the first book, A Study in Charlotte. I disliked The Last of August so very much that I wasn’t […]