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Book Review: "Beautiful Things" by Hunter Biden
I remember when I first heard about this book and everyone was recommending it to me, but at the time I really just could not afford it as there were already many books on my ‘to be read’ list and ‘Wishlist’ and any other list you can think of. I was pretty up in arms about it because everyone was reading it and discussing it at the time and I was feeling a little left out. When I finally did come around to buying it, I would have it on my Kindle purely because it was a little bit cheaper. I think I was actually pretty thankful because everyone had stopped talking about it and things were returning to normal. I was not coming across the book every three scrolls of Instagram, not seeing reviews of it all over Twitter and not being constantly advertised it. I felt like I was reading it in silence again and for me, that is the best way to read. Hunter Biden’s autobiography is an amazing achievement of memoir. Obviously, his last name thrust his book into the spotlight once it was published and of course, during this time there were many people already talking about his drug use, his bad habits and blaming them on various things they did not know about. But this is the book that clears that all up.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Family Love and Hate
The Love and Hate of Family I originally reviewed MiMi’s Heart by Olvia R.Wallace in October of 2018, for a now defunct book review club called Paperback Pushers. An associate of mine, April Freeman, desired to lead the group like an up-and-coming organized drug ring. But instead of moving crack, we moved dope reads. Instead of stacking money, we stacked free books. We were mostly satisfied with this arrangement.
By Jymyaka Braden5 years ago in Geeks
A Look at Chester Himes and A Rage in Harlem
To say Chester Himes is the Black Raymond Chandler would only serve to diminish his genius and undermine Chandler as a purveyor of the hardboiled crime genre.
By SM Reviews5 years ago in Geeks
The Princesses of My Growth
Ever since I could remember, the princesses in the books and movies have never not been an influence on my life. Though, asking who was my favorite would be a hard question, because that changed throughout the timeline of the growth of myself. Each story is unique to their own, even if not all the princesses are too far apart in personality at times, it never took away from the charm itself. The magic, the gowns, the true love kiss, and so much more that influenced me to the woman I am today; the woman I'm still working to become. As it classically starts...
By Alcie Land5 years ago in Geeks
Twig, A Fairy Story For Kids and Adults
When I was just five years of age, I became fascinated by a book that one of my sisters was given as a birthday present. The name of the book was simply Twig. I thought this was really interesting as our family name is Trigg. Possessing the name Trigg, one is subject to many teasings on the variations of the name such as the "trigger" of a gun, Trigger, Roy Roger's horse, and of course, a small branch on a tree - a twig.
By Michael Trigg5 years ago in Geeks
The Chi rabbit
When I was young I really loved the world of fairytales I still do, imaginary dreaming and listening to stories on the radio or vinyl when I was 5 years old and later on tv. The books had a special impact on me, but they usually created a less imaginary world, as I mostly focused on pictures to relate to the story. While I was listening to a fairytale on vinyl or radio my imagination was very strong. I think it is where I developed a different world for myself, and my creativity in art. As a child, I often was not allowed to watch fairy tales on tv around 19.00, so I ended up hiding, and switching on tv because I was hidden, I could only listen to the voice, and again imagine things. This is the most that I do remember was an important thing for me in my childhood. Now when I am writing about it, I also started to recall that the world once created in your brain, doesn't go off even through the passing of the years. What is more, I started to remember the images, and pictures of books, that I would say their vibes in the most modern way of manner attracted me the most were both poetry and stories. Poetry in my childhood had a special place for me, It always seemed so sophisticated to imagine what was read, and every time understood differently, not like repeating the stories already known. Poetry was much more, I think it was where my first abstract thinking was born, and my favorite book was not even written in my language nor the language I knew. I just loved the polished shiny cover of it, the rabbit at the front and that was it, the rest I could just feel it. It was enough for me. I pretended that I could read it. I watched Images there and knew it all. That was my best and first memory of an experience with the poetry book and different cultures. The cover of the book was already broken with turned threads which were only making me feel more excited to keep it and not to break more of it. There was not only something poetic in it, but also more artistic in a way that I liked and loved for how the cover was built. It was awakening me to some higher level of thinking about the whole price of this book for me. It was the most expensive, and the most valued one just from the point of how it was torn apart. I somehow have a tendency to still like books with interesting covers half damaged, and with pure text inside that I can read for years over and over again. Another book, a very small one as a miniature that I loved almost the same for its reason of cover and pictures in it again polished pages was The Pear fell into the Apron. This tiny little book was full of rhymes. It was in my language this time, so I always combined these two together when coming back to it after going through the one with the rabbit on the cover.
By Darkos5 years ago in Geeks
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead", a play by Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard took the title of his 1966 play from a line towards the end of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”. All the main characters are dead, which leaves the concluding lines to be spoken by Hamlet’s friend Horatio and the Norwegian general Fortinbras. An ambassador from England announces that he has come too late to tell the Danish king that his orders have been obeyed and that “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead”.
By John Welford5 years ago in Geeks
Review of 'The Bright & the Pale'
The Bright & the Pale explores Russian folklore in this young adult fantasy that lures its characters into a mountain and pits gods against one another.
By Cyn's Workshop5 years ago in Geeks
"Through the Looking Glass", by Lewis Carroll
My early childhood was spent during the 1950s, and I was lucky to have a father who knew his way around books and stories and did everything he could to interest me in the literature that he had enjoyed when he was much younger. However, the considerable age gap between us (he had been born in 1906) meant that the stories he introduced me to came from a much earlier age. I therefore heard and read many stories that had been written prior to World War I!
By John Welford5 years ago in Geeks
There and Back Again
From my earliest memories, books have always been a source of comfort and entertainment in my life. The love for reading was embedded in me, nearly written on my DNA just like the genes for my red hair and freckled skin. Many family trips were taken to various libraries and bookstores, searching for the next story to take home with us. Getting a new book began to feel as exciting as getting a new toy to play with, a feeling I still experience to this day when I step foot inside one of those sacred homes for stories lovingly written for me by authors I have never met.
By Kristen Johnson5 years ago in Geeks
To Sleep and Back Again
Bilbo Baggins was a cantankerous old Hobbit. Contained within his Hobbit sized bunker, he was content to watch the world move by, until he was disturbed one evening by the old Wizard, Gandalf. From this point forward, Bilbo has swept along into a magical adventure, starring elves, men, dwarves, wizards and the odd Eagle. It was a treat to read.
By Ben Shelley5 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks" by Adam Nayman
I love reading books about filmmakers and their movies. Books that really include some information that I have not read on Reddit or 4Chan before are probably the best ones. The ones where I can say ‘yes, the heart and soul of the author who wrote this book is in here and it is presented through their love for films…’ I once read a book about Quentin Tarantino that did just that. Each film was gone through in meticulous detail, each film was analysed and, alongside pictures from the set, taken apart and then put back together again. I read a book about John Huston that was amazing, a famous work entitled “Picture” that went through John Huston’s thought processes and the creative mechanisms he used to create masterpieces for Hollywood. I have read the books of Derek Jarman which he wrote as diaries before he died - exploring environmentalism and homosexuality through filmmaking was amongst some of the most interesting aspects of the filmmaking process I had ever read. It blew my mind at the time and his book “Chroma” still blows my mind today. This book I read by Adam Nayman does relatively the same thing but this time, analyses the works of the legendary filmmaker, Paul Thomas Anderson.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks