Category: What I Learned
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What I Learned: Taisho Otome
What I Learned reading Taisho Otome Fairy Tale by Sana Kirioka: Enduring kindness can change people for the better. Obsession with power and status will not bring you happiness and will hinder you from seeing what really matters in life.
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What I Learned: The Giver of Stars
What I Learned reading The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes: Being able to read and gaining knowledge from reading is freeing, comforting, and subversive. Though life is difficult, having a group of friends you can count on makes it worthwhile and help you persevere. Life doesn’t always go the way you expect, sometimes it…
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What I Learned: A Brother’s Price
What I Learned from A Brother’s Price by Wen Spencer If a person isn’t allowed to make decisions as a child, they won’t be able to make good decisions as an adult. People can make awful and even cruel decisions when blinded by love. Not everyone is who they seem. Even someone you think you…
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What I Learned: Who Made Me Princess
What I Learned from “Who Made Me Princess” Manwha by Spoon and Plutus “Family” isn’t always what it appears to be on the outside. Being “family” doesn’t guarantee that people will get along. Bonding, emotional interaction, and spending time together are all crucial processes of being a family. Do not let your negative(ex. grief, jealousy,…
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What I Learned: The Little Mermaid
I recently read The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen. I decided to read the fairy tale in part because I play Fate Grand Order in my spare time and he’s one of the characters I like. I also read it because I hadn’t read it as a child. Of course I’ve watched the Disney…
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What I Learned: “The Purloined Letter”
I was looking through the books I got while I was in college and found a collection of Edgar Allen Poe’s poetry and short stories. I’ve already read “The Raven”, “The Cask of Amontillado”, “A Tell-Tale Heart”, and “The Fall of the House of Usher” so I decided to start with one I hadn’t read…
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What I Learned: Gone Girl
What I Learned from Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn There are an astounding amount of ways that a married couple can hurt each other. Poor parenting can REALLY mess up a person. Sometimes the villain wins and sometimes that’s fitting. As screwed up as Amy is, the “Cool Girl” speech really hits hard.
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What I Learned: A Thousand Ships
What I Learned from A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes Women’s thoughts and roles in history and myth are way too often overlooked. War is a hell that doesn’t just harm those who are active combatants in it. A person can be both a victim and a perpetrator. Sometimes they’re both at once other times…
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What I Learned: No Bootstraps When You’re Barefoot
What I Learned from No Bootstraps When You’re Barefoot by Wes Hall You can’t expect someone to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” when they have no resources or opportunities. It is up to those who “make it” to open a path to where they are for those who come after them. That is how…
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What I Learned: Easy Beauty A Memoir
What I Learned from reading Easy Beauty A Memoir by Chloe Cooper Jones Having a disability does not make someone less of a person. People who are disabled, whether from birth or through illness/accident, still deserve respect as individual people and desire autonomy just like individual people. People who are disabled are not just disabled.…
