Author: oallen
Book: Heartless Author: Marissa Meyer Summary: An imagining of the origin story of The Queen of Hearts “One to be a murderer. One to be a Martyr. One to be a Monarch. One to go Mad” -Marissa Meyer, Heartless I have loved Alice in Wonderland for as...
Play: Hamlet Scene: Act 5, Scene 1 Playwright: William Shakespeare Summary: A tragic ghost story about Prince Hamlet’s quest to avenge his father and everything that happens along the way. “Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something...
Book: The Shape of Water Author: Guillermo Del Toro, Daniel Kraus Summary: Based on Guillermo Del Toro’s movie of the same name, Del Toro describes The Shape of Water as “A Fairytale for Troubled Times”. “She reaches out to him. To herself. There is no difference. She understands now....
Book: The Night Circus Author: Erin Morgenstern Summary: We watch the magical development of two destined competitors, set against the growth of a unique and dreamlike circus. “The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it, no paper notices on downtown posts and billboards,...
“They’re like that on social media, but are they like that in real life?” “Oh, people can make that on Pinterest but not in real life.” “Nobody’s hair looks that good in real life.” We say this kind of stuff all the time, as though there is a way access...
Book: Turtles All The Way Down Author: John Green Summary: We follow the mystery of missing billionaire, Russell Picket, through the eyes of young Aza Holmes, struggling keep herself afloat in the stifling grasp of intense anxiety. '"But the really scary thing is not turning and...
Book: Ficciones, “The Garden of Forking Paths” Author: Jorge Luis Borges Translators: Helen Temple and Ruthven Todd Summary: Yu Tsun is being hunted down by Captain Richard Madden. He knows the name of a city that is to be bombed and must communicate this to the Chief, without getting...
Disclaimer: I’m a writer, not a scientist, but I try. There are at least 200 billion stars in our galaxy. Can you even wrap your head around that number? I can’t. I go outside at night and watch the few that are visible through the Disney-Area light pollution. There’s Orion,...
I adore music. I love listening to it, I love singing it. I don’t think I necessarily listen to the music that most people listen to, but that doesn’t matter to me. Because of that, though, it will often seem that I am quite ignorant about it. And okay, sure,...
As we move into November, in which some people participate in National Novel Writing Month(NaNoWriMo), and try to write a novel in a month(Oh god how, how, how!?), I thought some musings on writing would be appropriate. I myself will be participating in an event of my own creation, NaNoWoOMoIMeCoOOliYoNeTFoAlThiIGeRi...
We just experienced a total eclipse of the sun, at least in some parts of the world, my part included. News about the eclipse was all over social media. There were even special hashtags and emojis, articles telling people about where to go to see the eclipse in totality, what...
William Shakespeare. Some people hate him, some people love him, some people go on and on about how he was actually more than one person. Regardless of what they think, almost everyone has heard of him. The dude was alive in the Elizabethan era, but people are still quoting him...
