The Radish

                    I have expressed my interest toward science fiction many times before, and for the last blog post of the schoolyear I have settled on To Hold Up the Sky  by one of my favorite science fiction authors, Cixin Liu (you thought it was going to be Michael Crichton again). This book is also unique among the books I have reviewed in that its not an actual book, but more of a collection of several short stories written in Chinese by Liu and later translated to English. Unlike several popular superficial "science fiction" movies and books all involving aliens attacking the earth with laser guns and whatever, every single work by Cixin Liu is extremely profound and insightful in its content, and it is clear that lots of thought and creativity have gone into the stories. Although I read nearly all of the stories in the book, I will focus on one for this blog post.         ...

  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...