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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Virginia Woolf! (born January 25th 1882)

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book review of 'how to find a missing girl' by Victoria Wlosok

Yesterday I finished reading how to find a missing girl. And just one word. Wow. This was an amazing debut novel.

It's written in 1st person in perspective of the main character, Iris Blackthorn. A year ago, her sister, Stella Blackthorn was washed out from existence with very little to indicate where she is or was. Iris launched her own investigation because the police couldn't figure it out and classified her as a runaway. But sadly all she managed to do was to get a warning from the police station saying she'd be behind bars if she chose to meddle in a investigation again. Then out of the blue Iris's ex-girlfriend, Heather, goes missing too. Right after she released her true crime podcast about Stella's disappearance. This time nothing will stop Iris and her amateur sleuthing agency to figure out the truth.

Not only was this book full of representation, but it was also a page turner with a intricate and well thought plot. It was really satisfying for all the clues to come out at the end.

Such a beautiful novel about grief and friendship. It had me sobbing at the end.

If you love YA mystery books then this is for sure one for you <3

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pieces of classic english literature that I'm planning to read this year<3

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

The great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Frankstein - Mary Shelley

Hamlet - Shakespeare

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

To the lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

The picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

Emma - Jane Austen

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How about in 2024 we stop it with reading books with the goal in mind to finish the book so you can add it to your list of read books and start reading books slowly and intentionally with the goal to rip it into pieces with your mind and be touched by it and formed by it and changed by it

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Little Women movie scene but written

I had to create a personal reading portfolio for school and I decided to choose Little Women as my book. One of my tasks was to write an event that I thought should've been added into the book. I chose to write a scene from the Little Women adaptation by Greta Gerwig, because I think It shows why Jo March had such a hatred towards Meg March marrying. So here it is if anyone's interested <3

Jo March stood across from the window, staring at her little Beth while she carefully plucked flowers for Meg’s wedding. Jo was in deep thought, for she could not let her older sister marry Mr brooke. She promised herself she would bear it and not say a word against it, but it was hard for her to give up one of her sisters. The thought of that made fear slither into her stomach.

Her deep thoughts got interrupted when Meg said something so dreadful for Jo to hear, “I can’t believe today’s my wedding day.” 

Meg promptly noticed a look on her sister’s face, one that didn’t seem very festive.

 “What’s wrong Jo?” “Nothing.” Jo replied, with uncertainty in her tone, for she was trying hard to contain her thoughts to herself. 

“Jo.” 

“It was no use”, Jo thought, it was now or never that she could spit them out so she decided to approach Meg, nervously fiddling with her fingers. “We can leave. We can leave right now. I can make money. I’ll sell stories. I’ll do anything, I’ll cook, I’ll clean, I’ll work in a factory. I can make a life for us my dear Meg!” Jo cried out.

 “Jo.” Meg said, a hint of a smile forming on her lips. 

“You should be an actress, to have a life on the stage. Let’s just run away together, please. .” 

“I want to get married Jo.”

“But why?!” Jo screeched out, for she did not want to believe such a thing. 

“Because I love him.” Meg admitted.

“You will be bored of him in two years and we will be interesting forever!”  

Meg smiled in spite of her oblivious sister who could not fathom someone having different dreams than hers. 

“Just because my dreams are different from yours doesn’t mean they’re unimportant.” 

Jo dropped down in defeat, a glance of utter disappointment shown on her face. 

“I want a home and a family and I’m willing to work and struggle, but I want to do it with John.” Meg continued, for she endlessly hoped her sister would end up understanding. 

“I just hate that you’re leaving me,” Jo confessed, swallowing a lump in her throat as she flopped down on her sister’s lap. Tears were starting to flow down her cheeks. “Don’t leave me.” 

“Oh Jo,” Meg began, gently stroking her sister’s hair. Meg’s expression was woeful, for she despised seeing Jo shed tears.

She shook her head while continuing to speak, forcing a warm smile in the direction of her teary eyed sister.

“I’m not leaving you. Besides, one day it will be your turn.” 

Meg gently placed a flower crown on her sister’s head, one that Jo swiftly threw across the chamber.

“I’d rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe.” 

Meg did not take her seriously and giggled at her reply, before she realized there was a genuine look plastered on Jo. 

“I would.” Jo muttered, “Oh Meg, I just can’t believe childhood is over.”

“It was going to end one way or another, and what a happy end.” Meg said, for she hoped her words would bring some kind of comfort, but Jo just sighed in response.

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Past analysis of Little Women

I have to create a personal reading portfolio and I chose Little Women as my book. I had to do a past analysis so I'm going to share it on here if anyone's interested <3

Purpose = Little Women’s purpose is for young readers to emphasize the importance of family and sisterhood. The book also provides the readers with lessons on morals such as the significance of being selfless, patient, kind and gentle while also standing up for what you believe in. 

The book itself serves its purpose as a great example of 19th century American literature.

Audience = Little Women is a book that is intended for any age, but it primarily focuses on struggles within teenagers and young adults, so I’d say the audience is fitted close to that age range.

Structure = Little Women is divided into two parts/volumes, part I is about the March sisters' childhood and part II is when most of them have matured into adults. 

The story is told through 3rd person, with mainly Jo(sephine) March’s perspective. This is because Louisa May Alcott perceived herself as Jo march. Although in a lot of chapters the perspective switches (Often switches to Laurie Laurence, Amy March or Meg March). Even though perspectives change, it’s always written in 3rd person. 

Tone = The tone in Little Women can vary between the experiences that are being told. I definitely saw a difference in the tone between part I and part II. part I primarily shows how hopeful the March sisters are that their dad will come back from war and that they will all be full of joy again, meanwhile becoming close with the neighbors grandchild next door, Laurie Laurence. The tone in part I is hopeful, ambitious and cheerful.

In contrast, the tone in part II is very different. In part II the March family goes through a heavy loss of Beth and aunt March where the tone is full of grief, sadness and hopelessness. The tone does drastically change as it goes through a time skip of a few years, where the tone is slowly turning hopeful and joyful again as Meg, Amy and Jo each find their way in life while also sticking together.

 I think the last line really indicates an elated tone when their mother (Marmee March) says: “Oh my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this!”

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My favourite Little Women quotes

"I've got the key to the castle in my air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen."

"There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.”

“I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.”

“…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.”

“Oh my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this!”

“It’s like the tide, Jo, when it turns, it goes slowly, but it can’t be stopped.”

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why are people suddenly making it seem like you’re not a reader if you don’t read a specific amount of books each year?

You’re a reader if you’ve read 3 books last year and you’re a reader if you’ve read 40 books last year.

Reading literature is not supposed to be a chore or a competition, it’s supposed to be enjoyed and loved.

Don’t let anyone tell you that you don’t love literature just because you’re a slow reader or because you simply don’t have time to read as much. It’s completely okay <3

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I truly love how literature can be interpreted differently by each reader. No matter how many decades go by there will always be new thoughts forming on every poem, prose, novel, etc.

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Literary analysis of some of the lyrics from the lakes by Taylor Swift

Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die. 

Referring to the Lake district, which is supposedly the most romantic place in the UK. Poets refers to the ‘lake poets’ that consisted of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey.

I don’t belong and my beloved, neither do you 

Meaning she doesn’t feel as if she or her ex lover Joe Alwyn belong in the chaos they’re in.

I want to watch wisteria grow right over my bare feet 

Wisteria is a flower that’s known for long living. This is a message that signals that she wants to be at peace without chaos. 

I’m setting off, but not without my muse

She doesn’t want to go to the lakes (the lake district) without her lover, because she’s finally found a love that she feels she can’t lose.

(this will forever be my favorite song ever:)

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"Jo loved Laurie! they were meant to be!"

As much as I loved Laurie and Jo's dynamic, Jo never loved Laurie romantically, it's even clearer in the books. She did have an intense amount of love for him, but it was strictly platonical.

After Jo rejected Laurie and he was off abroad, she had a conversation with her mother where she stated that she didn't love him as she should but just wanted to be loved by him.

Jo only wanted to be loved by Laurie because of how lonely she felt, especially after the loss of Beth.

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My TBR for 2024 till now (goal is to read 30 books):

1. This lie will kill you - Chelsea Pitcher

2. Sense and sensibility - Jane Austen

3. The summer she went missing - Chelsea Ichaso

4. Little women (currently reading) - Louisa May Alcott

5. All the hunger games books - Suzanne Collins

6. We were liars - E. Lockhart

7. Five survive - Holly jackson

8. The picture of dorian gray - Oscar Wilde

9. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

10. This book kills - Ravena Guron

11. Catch your death - Ravena Guron

12. Emma - Jane Austen

13. How to find a missing girl - Victoria Wlosok

14. Once upon a broken heart - Stephanie Garber

15. The seven husbands of evelyn hugo - Taylor Jenkins reid

16. The silent patient - Alex Michaelides

17. The perks of being a wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

18. The secret history - Donna Tartt

Feel free to comment recommendations <3

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Does anyone have recommendations for classics that are worth the read?

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It’s so beautiful to read little women as the author, Louisa May Alcott perceived herself as Jo March. In one of the chapters The march sisters (and Laurie) talk about their hopes, dreams and ambitions. Jo says that she wants her words to be unforgettable, for her name to forever be remembered. It fills my heart to know that Louisa achieved exactly that. Louisa you and your words will never be washed away from existence, they will always stay close to people’s hearts and minds.

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Literary analysis of some lyrics from my tears ricochet by Taylor Swift

(this is just my interpretation, feel free to interpret it in different ways, after all literature can be seen completely differently through someone else’s eyes.)

Cursing my name, wishing I stayed

Reference to how the addressee still talks about her, cursing her out, even though that��s used to disguise what he truly feels; wishing she stayed. 

And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake? 

Indicating that they’re both metaphorically dead to each other, wanting nothing to do with each other. “Why are you at the wake?” shows that relationships don’t end so easily, no matter how hard you try and forget the other person. 

And I can go anywhere I want

Anywhere I want, just not home

The addressee was her home, even if she’s free now she can’t go to the addressee anymore whom she loved. 

And you can aim for my heart, go for blood

But you would still miss me in your bones

The addressee could hurt her physically, mentally, etc but she knows he would still know that she was the best thing that ever happened to him.

And I still talk to you (when I'm screaming at the sky)

And when you can't sleep at night (you hear my stolen lullabies)

Indicates that the addressee stole the sweet and gentle parts of her.

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