Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
"Thank you.
Thank you for making me see stars when I only saw the darkness."
Will Darbyshire, This Modern Love.
The book carried me through an emotional process. This Modern Love reminds me that today's form of love is no worse nor better than love of the past. Love is love is love. Regardless of time and place.
This modern love is still love, and it is beautiful.
glasses : SpecSavers | shawl : Adlina Anis
top : TopShop | dress : (thrifted)
boots : (similar)
SHOP THE LOOK HERE
So, what do you think of this modern love?
Thank you for making me see stars when I only saw the darkness."
Will Darbyshire, This Modern Love.
I finished This Modern Love by Will Darbyshire in less than 24 hours.
It is a quick read. A collection of letters around the world, from people at the beginning, middle and end of love. Crushes, romance and heartbreak. A cycle everyone can relate. Some more than others. Love is, perhaps our most primal emotion.
As I stared blankly at the last page, I thought about love in this modern age. My first love, to be specific, and its cycle. The early infatuation when I saw him on stage, the years spent together, and the eventual heartbreak.
Sometimes I have to remind myself. I was in love once.
There was a boy, two years older but acted much younger. Childish but charming. I never thought we would grow old together, but we lasted through college.
I saw his face through my computer screen every Thursday night, laughing into the early hours. He texted me in the morning before school, and I answered back by lunchtime. We sent silly selfies back and forth. With every message received, my heart jumped.
I knew, to my core, this was love.
Modern technology had helped our relationship. When it ended, modern technology hindered our heartache.
I saw his face on Instagram every other week, grimacing as I scrolled past. I wrote passive-aggressive tweets in 140 characters, and he 'liked' them the next day. We messaged in the same group chat, never to each other. With every notification lit in green, my heart dropped.
This love was gone, and modern technology reminded me.
I knew, to my core, this was love.
Modern technology had helped our relationship. When it ended, modern technology hindered our heartache.
I saw his face on Instagram every other week, grimacing as I scrolled past. I wrote passive-aggressive tweets in 140 characters, and he 'liked' them the next day. We messaged in the same group chat, never to each other. With every notification lit in green, my heart dropped.
This love was gone, and modern technology reminded me.
In many ways, this modern age hasn't changed love. Love evolved with us.
We are the paradoxical generation. More cynical about romance but still searching for our soulmates. Assured there will be The One, someone for us, anyone. With technology, it becomes easier to find them, connect with them, and stalk their social media profiles until you know exactly what they had for brunch in June 2013.
We are the paradoxical generation. More cynical about romance but still searching for our soulmates. Assured there will be The One, someone for us, anyone. With technology, it becomes easier to find them, connect with them, and stalk their social media profiles until you know exactly what they had for brunch in June 2013.
Yet the feelings remain the same.
The butterflies in your stomach still flutter.
Your lingering stares still hold passion.
Their 'I love you' still matters.
The book carried me through an emotional process. This Modern Love reminds me that today's form of love is no worse nor better than love of the past. Love is love is love. Regardless of time and place.
This modern love is still love, and it is beautiful.
glasses : SpecSavers | shawl : Adlina Anis
top : TopShop | dress : (thrifted)
boots : (similar)
SHOP THE LOOK HERE
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This Modern Love is available on Amazon.
Despite the title of this post, I wanted to recreate a 70s inspired outfit.
I wore this Topshop Flared Top during London Fashion Week, pairing it with a thrifted black swing dress. I noticed modest fashion bloggers wearing long sleeves tops over sleeveless dresses. Though hesitant at first, I conceded. Now, I can't stop wearing them.
To finish off, I wore Adlina Anis Chiffon Onesie in Dusty Rose. Though I'm not a fan of pink, the colour brought a sense of romance. One needed when writing about this modern love, both the book and concept.
Despite the title of this post, I wanted to recreate a 70s inspired outfit.
I wore this Topshop Flared Top during London Fashion Week, pairing it with a thrifted black swing dress. I noticed modest fashion bloggers wearing long sleeves tops over sleeveless dresses. Though hesitant at first, I conceded. Now, I can't stop wearing them.
To finish off, I wore Adlina Anis Chiffon Onesie in Dusty Rose. Though I'm not a fan of pink, the colour brought a sense of romance. One needed when writing about this modern love, both the book and concept.
So, what do you think of this modern love?
with love,
" T E L L M E . D O Y O U B L E E D ?
. . . Y O U W I L L . "
. . . Y O U W I L L . "
I caught a sneak peek of Batman v. Superman late Wednesday night. Excitement rose with a Batman symbol embroidered across my chest and heart on my sleeve. After nearly three hours in the dim theatre, I released my friend's hand as credits rolled. Staring at the black screen amidst the leaving audience, we sang praise.
Not for the film itself, but for all the analysis we whispered throughout it.
I'll keep my lips silent from an actual straightforward review. Rotten Tomatoes has got that covered. Instead, I want to focus on what excited me the most. Apart from Henry Cavill's chiseled face, Henry Cavill's sculpted physique and Henry Cavill in general.
Batman v. Superman might not be a great film but it is a great Christian allegory.
Not for the film itself, but for all the analysis we whispered throughout it.
I'll keep my lips silent from an actual straightforward review. Rotten Tomatoes has got that covered. Instead, I want to focus on what excited me the most. Apart from Henry Cavill's chiseled face, Henry Cavill's sculpted physique and Henry Cavill in general.
Batman v. Superman might not be a great film but it is a great Christian allegory.
“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.” - John Green
I watched Paper Towns yesterday. Having read the novel and enjoying it, I had my expectations exceeded. Though I did not love it, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Albeit for different reasons than most.
Paper Towns is not a cinematic masterpiece. More often than not, it's slow and pretentious. Like every John Green novel ever. It still captures the heart and soul that makes them so popular. Like every John Green novel ever. Paper Towns is not the next Fault In Our Stars. It doesn't try to be.
What Paper Towns is, is a fine, better-than-average, coming-of-age comedy. It also deconstructs the Manic Pixie Dream Girl archetype and explores themes of idealization and identity.
Paper Towns is not a cinematic masterpiece. More often than not, it's slow and pretentious. Like every John Green novel ever. It still captures the heart and soul that makes them so popular. Like every John Green novel ever. Paper Towns is not the next Fault In Our Stars. It doesn't try to be.
What Paper Towns is, is a fine, better-than-average, coming-of-age comedy. It also deconstructs the Manic Pixie Dream Girl archetype and explores themes of idealization and identity.
“Brave isn't something you are. It's something you do.” - Cynthia Hand
Rating || 5/5
Can you consider suicide as a sub-genre of young adult books? If so, then The Last Time We Say Goodbye is the apotheosis.
This book has been passed around my friends. All commending it. It is a tidal wave of emotional turmoil, beautiful aggravation and haunting realism. They were right. It crashes into you, pulling you into its misery and pain until it leaves you curled into a ball covered in pink bed sheets, crying.
“You can be noble and brave and beautiful and still find yourself falling.” - Ava Dellaira
Rating : 4/5
Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira is emotionally manipulative, depressingly optimistic and makes my nose sniffle snot.
I can see why they are people who love this book, and why they are people who hate it. What it boils down to is how far you would accept the writing style and how passive and inactive the main character is. If you are able to accept that, then you will be fine with this book.
“The energy you’ll expend focusing on someone else’s life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol.” - Sophia Amoruso
Rating: 4/5
It seems every blogger has this book, usually Kindle edition. Left and right, everyone praises the book. Perhaps it is in part of the author; Sophia Amoruso. CEO and Founder of Nasty Gal, and #GIRLBOSS (Yes, the hashtag and all caps are necessary).
The best way to describe #GIRLBOSS is that it is part-memoir, part-self-help, part feminism book. It shows her from the anti-capitalist who couldn't hold a job for two weeks to the CEO of the fastest growing online retailer. How she manages to take her tiny e-bay shop to a powerhouse name can be found in this book weaved with business tips and funny anecdotes.
“To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.” - Rainbow Rowell
Rating || 4/5

“That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. Good for her! Not for me.” - Amy Poehler
Rating: 3.75/5
I love funny women.
They prove that being hilarious and being sexy aren’t
mutually exclusive. They understand the trials and tribulations of being a
woman yet joke about it so much that you forget them. Whether she plays Regina
George’s ‘cool’ mom or the ever-ambitious Leslie Knope, Amy Poehler is equal
parts charming and equal parts entertaining.
Yes Please succeeds in being just that.
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