Annie Kapur
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Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
"Thousand Cranes" (original title: "Senbazuru") is a novel written by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata, first published in 1952. The work marks a significant entry in Kawabata's oeuvre and contributes to his status as a leading figure in Japanese literature. Kawabata was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, largely due to his unique narrative style and deep exploration of Japanese aesthetics and culture.
By Annie Kapur10 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace
I honestly thought David Foster Wallace was an author I was never going to read again (that was a joke). Way way back, I read The Pale King and gave my first impressions on it in a strangely worded article where I was a bit overtly confused about why this was meant to be regarded the way it was. I enjoyed it enough but there was always a part of me that thought I was supposed to be enjoying it. Anyways, The Pale King has kept me on the fence. At least it was a better experience than I had when reading Infinite Jest a couple of years before that - that was not a great experience. So, let's have a look at the 'even better than The Pale King' experience I had of reading A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. As you can tell, there's something more to this...
By Annie Kapur10 months ago in Geeks
The Bard and the Troubadour
Background and Context: I am back again with all these random notes from university (a long way back now) being turned into essays finally. You might ask me why I'm doing it now and really it's because I've been looking at them lying around for a long time now. There's many in my bank at this point and I like to think writing them now is doing them a little bit more justice than writing them back then with my less apt writing skills. However, there's always room for improvement. If you go on to my page and have a click around, you should be able to find a whole host of essays.
By Annie Kapur10 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "How We Are" by Vincent Deary
I know I read them backwards, apparently this is the first one and How We Break is the second. The truth is, the second one seemed more interesting. But, by reading the first one I have honestly proven myself wrong because now both of them are as interesting as each other and I realise that this means I have absolutely no reason for why I read them in the wrong order. Anyways, it's February 2025 when I am writing this and I have literally just finished reading it. I'm still stuck on the comparison between Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier and The Shining by Stephen King. But this book not only goes through who we are, but forces us to confront how we are.
By Annie Kapur10 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Music as Medicine" by Daniel Levitin
I was initially excited about this book but I became more and more cynical about its arguments the more it started to become a book about convincing me that music had some strange healing powers. Yes, there's a lot of scientific stuff in here that I think is very important but I will also go through that though they are important, they are also somewhat flawed in my opinion. There are some things that come into question and these include: data, anecdotes, generalisations and writing style. This book didn't feel as powerful and driven as a research/nonfiction book usually does for me and even though I was excited to read it - I find myself slightly deflated.
By Annie Kapur10 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Let Them Theory" by Mel Robbins
I have seen this book everywhere because I have been hankering around on Twitter and BlueSky. This is where the 'Self Help' book seems to grow into an unnatural monster. Many of these weird accounts are there posting '5 books you should read to become a success' in which everyone replies 'well, you've read them and you're unemployed and sitting on Twitter telling people to read them'. The place where I saw The Let Them Theory however was on pages concerning mental health and the way in which we have to let go of the expectations of others for ourselves. This isn't a self-help book, but it is a huge help.
By Annie Kapur10 months ago in Geeks
Doom-Spending
Doom-spending is a term used to describe the excessive or impulsive spending habits exhibited by individuals, especially those in Generation Z, driven by feelings of hopelessness or a pessimistic outlook on the future. This phenomenon is a response to a combination of personal anxieties, economic instability, and a constant bombardment of negative messages about the future. Faced with global challenges such as climate change, political unrest, and economic uncertainty, many young people today experience a sense of despair that can manifest itself in the form of reckless financial decisions (Furnham, 2019). Doom-spending involves individuals making purchases as a temporary escape, believing that material goods offer brief relief from the pressure and stress of an uncertain future.
By Annie Kapur10 months ago in Psyche
Carers in Crisis
In the UK, it is well documented that there is a persistent undervaluing of those who care for others either part time or full time. We have been constantly made aware of the struggles of this faction of people and yet, there are still things to be fixed within the way in which the government addresses their issues. Ignorance towards this section of our communities has caused more isolation and helplessness within the communities than we care to realise, forming a new kind of mental health crisis that often goes unnoticed. Time and time again, the UK has provided little care for the carers and they often find themselves undervalued, underfunded and without a safety net in the darkest and coldest months of the years.
By Annie Kapur10 months ago in Psyche
Book Review: "Fugue for a Darkening Island" by Christopher Priest
As you know, I've been living in Nottingham for about six months now and as you also know, I am not sure I like it very much. So far, it has proven to be very small, not very city-like and a little slow for me, who is more adapted to being in Birmingham. It is February and I have been taken sick from work for mental health reasons (yes, it is that far into the gutter) and so, I decided to make myself feel a bit better by getting a library card and hanging around some books. No, the library in Nottingham is nothing compared to the one in Birmingham - but it is still something to get me out of my apartment. I brought home six new books and one of them was by Christopher Priest, writer of The Prestige (the book and the film are actually quite different).
By Annie Kapur10 months ago in Geeks
"A Thousand Dreadful Things"
Background and Context: Ah, here we are again. Yes, there are still many to come - I haven't even begun to check the notebooks I had at university where I scribbled down essay ideas. Here's some context you weren't aware of: I didn't just do this for Shakespeare, but for every one of my modules and the reason I did it is because I was scared of not being able to make up my mind when the time came to write it. A week or so before starting to write the essays, I would read and deduce what I wanted to do. This may have been a long while ago, but it has really been fun actually writing the stuff I never got to write at university. Yes, it takes a while and I work on some concurrently, but eventually it looks pretty good.
By Annie Kapur10 months ago in Geeks
What Happened to Bobby Fuller?
Bobby Fuller was an American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for his 1966 hit I Fought the Law. Born on 22 October 1942 in Baytown, Texas, he grew up in El Paso, where he developed a passion for music influenced by Buddy Holly and other early rock pioneers. Fuller formed several bands during his teenage years, eventually leading The Bobby Fuller Four, which gained local success before moving to Los Angeles in 1964.
By Annie Kapur10 months ago in Geeks
