Tag: book
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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 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: 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.…
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What I Learned: I’m Glad My Mom Died
What I Learned from reading I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy: Child performers are graded as good or bad depending on their ability to obey directors/handlers/producers/etc. and be who they want them to be: perfect. Which hampers their ability to voice their needs and self-actualize. Fame can be extremely dehumanizing.
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Quotes from “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
So, I’ve recently read “The Little Prince”(or Le Petite Prince in the original French) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a children’s book written back during World War 2. What prompted me to read it was a character in a game I play whose design is based on the titular prince. In all honesty, the book is…
