The Radish

  Instead of doing a standard blog I decided to use one of the prompts and redesigned the cover for a book, but instead of doing my blog on a normal book I read a couple short stories by the same author. The 3 short stories I read were Landlady, Lamb to the Slaughter, and Way up to Heaven which were all written by Roald Dahl. They are all relatively short, about 8 or so pages. While I did say they were scary stories they aren’t really; they are all relatively normal stories but all have some weird or creepy twist at the end. Because of this it's going to be a struggle to explain the cover without giving away spoilers. I recommend just reading the stories as it takes about an hour and if you only have 15 minutes just read Lamb to the Slaughter as it's definitely my favorite of the bunch.  The reason I chose the dark building as the background is because every single one of the stories takes place in unnamed cities. The table and everything on it is a reference to Lamb to Slaugh...

  They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera follows Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio, two strangers who have both been told they’re going to die sometime in the next 24 hours by a company called Death-Cast. Without knowing when or how they’ll die, Mateo and Rufus attempt to spend their last day doing all the things they never got a chance to do. For my blog post, I chose to make a playlist of songs that I feel best describe this book. I Know The End - Phoebe Bridgers “I Know The End” is about making the most out of your time if the world was ending. The chorus, “But you had to go, I know, I know, I know,” is very similar to Mateo and Rufus’ feelings about only having a day left. A few chapters in, they’ve both accepted their fate and decide to make the most out of it. This also relates to the verse, “When the sirens sound you’ll hide under the floor, but I’m not gonna go down with my hometown in a tornado, I’m gonna chase it, I know, I know, I know.” Rose Parade - Elliott Smith Th...

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    Well, I apparently do not have that many kinds of books, so I am going back on my word and doing another fairy tale blog. However, as a plus, I am once again swapping my fairy tale authors to bring variety. After starting off from the lands of Germany and heading north to Denmark, why not head back south to Germany. Then after that pit stop look West, to a little-known country called France. This time the author is Charles Perrault, who is behind a couple fairy tales you have probably heard of. The main famous fairy tales I could find from Perrault were Puss in Boots, debatably Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and Sleeping Beauty. I will be covering Puss in Boots  which actually seems to be Italian, and like the Grimms, it seems Perrault chronicles more than writes these fairy tales. Anyway without anything further to say let us get into the summary.     The story begins with a father dying and his will giving three things to three brothers. One gets a m...

                      In this blog post I will be reviewing the book Timeline  by (yes him again) Michael Crichton. This is the third book that I have read by the same author, and given the quality of the other two books I had no doubt that this one (although not from the same series) would not disappoint. I'm slightly more than halfway through the book and it definitely seems like something I look forward to finishing.                         The book is about a group of graduate students at Yale studying medieval history, specifically that of England and France in the fourteenth century. They discover a bifocal lens buried in the ground, but quickly dismiss it as contamination from their own backpacks and move on. Then they find a mysterious note with a date, 4/7/1357, and only two words: HELP ME (Crichton, 91). The handwriting looks exa...

      If I were to give you one reason to read Night by Elie Wiesel I would tell you this, it was good enough to receive a Nobel prize so it must be good enough for 100 pages of your time. Night is an autobiographical tale of a Holocaust survivor as he recalls his journey from Auschwitz to freedom.         The book begins in 1945 where we find out about  Eliezer (Elie) who is only 15 at the time. Not even 5 pages in and Elie as well as everyone else in his community is deported, and no-one knows where they'll be going. At first many people are optimistic and tell each other that they are being sent to work in factories as the fighting draws closer. Soon they are crammed into cattle cars and begin a long journey without food and water. Along the way one of the people in his car begins screaming for days on end that she can see flames.      Once they arrive at the concentration camp the story goes from day to day m...