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The Grading Scale

Collegiate grading scales are very strange. There is no universal scale so going into a new course feels like a quest, “How does this professor grade things? Hm…the final is worth 50%? Let’s drop this. Why does A- exist?” A+ is like 98-100, A is 95-97.9, and A- is 90-94.9. But that’s not always the case. Sometimes you get really lucky and there’s a general A for 90-100. Same goes for B, C,…

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The Postmortal - Drew Magary

A review of "The Postmortal," an unnecessarily realistic dystopia

The Postmortal is an eerily accurate speculation of what might happen if people could choose not to die. Written in a first-person point of view, John Farrell shares his personal experience after taking “The Cure.” From negotiating short-term marriages, experiencing the terror of pro-death cults, and working for government euthanasia programs, John Farrell’s life story serves as a warning for…

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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

I attempted the watch Scott Pilgrim vs. The World a while back and wasn’t in the right mood to enjoy the rather strong characters and funky visual effects. Scott Pilgrim also pissed me off in the beginning because he’s literally weak-chinned. However. I watched the movie again in a better mood and NOW I’M IN LOVE WOOOOOOOOOO. Let me give you a brief overview: Scott Pilgrim (22) is dating 17…

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Love, Death, and Robots

I've found my favorite Netflix series. My mind is blown.

Hollly shit. I severely underestimated this series and I am so mad that I didn’t watch it sooner. For those who don’t know what Love, Death, and Robots is or what it might be about, the series is an anthology of speculative fiction stories, meaning that it includes most fiction genres from sci-fi, horror, thriller, fantasy, cyberpunk, and so much more. (The primary genre is science fiction with…

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

I am very, very late to reading this cult-classic of a science fiction book. In my defense, it was published in 1979 and I did not exist. Let’s get right into it. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a guidebook and adventure story 2-in-1 combo. Among various entries describing the most ridiculous of comic beings, human Arthur Dent is rescued by his best friend for Prefect (who turns out to…

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Red Queen - Christina Henry

Another long overdue book review! Read about "Red Queen," the companion to "Alice," which I reviewed earlier in the month.

Red Queen follows the story of Alice and her lover Hatcher as they journey to find his lost daughter, Jenny. They seek a land of green fields and meadows and flowing rivers, but arrive to see only ash and death. Alice and Hatcher quickly realize they did not escape danger when they escaped the Rabbit and the Caterpillar in the Old City. They face new challengers, the White Queen and the Black…

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No More Masks?

On May 13, 2021 the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) released an announcement stating “fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask or physically distance in any setting, except where required by federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial laws, rules, and regulations, including local business and workplace guidance.”1 Meaning that if you’re in the U.S. and you’ve…

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Lost Boy - Christina Henry

Lost Boy: A remake of the original Peter Pan except this time, Peter's the bad guy

I read Alice, also by Christina Henry, and fell in love with its gory violence. Lost Boy is less violent and more haunting in its rendition of Peter Pan and his Lost Boys. “There is one version of my story that everyone knows. And then there is the truth. This is how it happened. How I went from being Peter Pan’s first—and favorite—lost boy to his greatest enemy.Peter brought me to his island…

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Don't be a Duck

A short musing about the occasional stupidity of humankind

There’s a video I saw on Instagram of a duck baiting a tiger in a little pool of water. The duck is floating around and quacking and when the tiger lunges to bite it, the duck ducks underwater and pops up behind the tiger. Then it quacks. The cycle repeats. Why doesn’t the duck run away (fly away?)? Why does it quack? If I have to interpret that interaction in a human way the duck is messing…

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The Last Words of Regina George

A very random musing/poem from earlier in the year

What’s your zodiac sign?  Ugh, taurus? We’re incompatible and according to the stars and heavens above, you’re also a raging bitch. Hm?  Of course I’m a bitch too, but I own it. I am the Bitch, Master Bitch, I make “bitch” my Bitch. On you “bitch” is pathetic but on me, “bitch” makes me a queen, crown gracing my head and subjects kneeling in front of me and all that shit.  Don’t need a king…

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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V.E. Schwab

Book review for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is up! Read it here:

Tor Books (Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC) The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is an amazing read. Some context: I have a permanent skepticism for books that reach a certain level of popularity. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, being a No. 1 New York Times Bestseller and reaching an insane level of hype on BookTok, Bookstagram, Goodreads, and some parts of Twitter, fit the criteria for my…

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April 2021 Wrap-Up

April 2021 Wrap-Up: All the content I have read and watched during the month instead of doing my work :)

This is a list of all the content (books, movies, TV shows) that I have consumed throughout the month. Here is my procrastination laid out in all it’s glory. BOOKS Ready Player One – Ernest Cline You can read the comparison I did between the book and it’s movie adaptation here Fragile Things – Neil Gaiman The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction – Neil Gaiman amazon.com Inside Out & Back…

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Howl's Moving Castle: Book v. Movie

A quick comparison between the book and movie versions of Howl's Moving Castle. Read it here!

newscine.online Nine out of ten times I mention Howl’s Moving Castle, people will say “Oh, that’s a great movie!” and not “That’s a great book!” which irks me because the book is just as phenomenal, if not more, than the movie. And it was the basis for the movie so it deserves respect in its own right. Apologies for the little rant. Anyways. For a book-to-movie adaptation, the movie doesn’t…

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The Immortalists

Book review for The Immortalists is published!

Chloe Benjamin I was in a bit of a reading slump. I’d wander through Barnes&Nobles, picking up random books, reading their blurbs, then setting them down on the shelf again. Nothing soothed the itch in my brain. I picked up The Immortalists with very low expectations. I’d read several other books in the “Recommended Books” display in the bookstore and all of them were wonderfully written, but…

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Ready Player One

Book review for Ready Player One is up! Find out why I like the movie better than the book :) (No Spoilers)

Ernest Cline I like the movie more than the book. There. I said it. Now, before all the hardcore fans come after me for this (probably) very unpopular opinion, let me explain why. Ready Player One centers around a teenager named Wade Watts as he attempts to find an Easter Egg within the virtual reality platform called OASIS. The first person to find the egg receives James Halliday’s (the late…

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Washing Machine

Whippersnapper\\red cracker\\I to the T

You want a slim thicc\\chunky\\slender

willow of a woman with huge tits and a dump truck of an ass

That’s what you told me while beer poured from your ears

Chaos\\sloth\\pool\\ tool

Box

Box me in box me out box me around the ears and pull out a

shotgun a beer

Gun it

down

down

down

How low can you go?

HELL

Can you go lower?

Past the demons and the Devil and past Dante and his tour guide with a map in one hand and sunnies perched on his nose

jobs for flat earthers

big berthers\\hunny bunny tea

party where Alice cries into her coffee

and the Mad Hatter is drinking tea instead of scotch

Sober october when you said

baby baby i love you

Pick a fish: red fish\\blue fish\\ green fish 4

peas in a pod and you didn’t pick up up up

in the plane no it’s a bird calling an

alarm alarm alarms when I see you

Fuck you.

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HELLO EVERYONE!!

I haven’t been on Tumblr in a hot minute but I thought it would be the perfect place to share my written works.

This is a blog-style website dedicated to my stories and book reviews. They are in a variety of genres and don’t really have anything in common except I wrote them.

(Check out the “A Letter to Readers” tab on the website if you want to learn more)

I hope you enjoy!