The semester is ending, so it’s become time to close out another chapter of my life. Thus, it has also come time to write my final passion blog of the semester (for real this time)–and in interest of not being able to think up a book important enough to dedicate my last post to… I’d […]
The Great Kardashi(ans)
The Kardashians. Undeniably one of the most sensational families of all time, but also one of the most annoying. And of course, the ONE time I’ve been waiting for them to rise to media infamy again, I hear absolutely nothing about them for an extended period. I’ve been wanting to write this post for a […]
A tale as old as time: Chiefs vs 49’ers?
For once in my life, I can say that I am grateful for the existence of Taylor Swift. As I sat waiting for the super bowl to start, I scoured my mind for blog post topics but kept coming up empty handed. Empty handed, until the camera panned to a certain pop star whom I […]
Maybe the real beetles are the friends we’ve made along the way….
It should be no surprise that I’m writing another post about Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis. It’s almost as if my blog is named after it… I suppose that before I end this unusually brief introduction, I should clarify some things. Even though I’ve shown in the past that I consider this novel to be “meme material”, I […]
We’re Back for Round Two!
Well… this is awkward. I signed off on my last post with thanks and goodbyes, as I didn’t believe I’d get around to blogging again. However, and as the title suggests– we’re back for round two! Time for another exciting semester of forcing people to listen to rants about books I’ve read! For that unaware […]
The Ghost Among the Bookshelves.
There was an additional part of the AP Literature curriculum that I don’t believe I’ve mentioned yet. We did not have to read just three books over the summer, but also a secret fourth! The reasoning behind this is rather simple. We were required to complete a Graduation Project (that is to say, a research […]
Macbeth: In the City
For those of you who have been following up with my blog, I have a confession to make… I lied. In my last post, I mentioned how AP Literature’s playscript unit contained three plays, and I was forced to thus write about just one due to time constraints. However, the unit actually had a fourth […]
Paradigm Shift of a Salesman
Some things just don’t seem like they’re meant to mix. Water and oil, gold and silver, perfectionism and mistakes, pineapple and pizza (too cliche?), classic literature and playscripts–at a glance, none of these combinations make any logical sense. Fortunately for me, I encountered one of these combinations in an unexpected place that eventually changed my […]
The Post We’ve All Been Waiting For!
It’s a little hard to believe that the same book that made me cry one cold December morning would eventually be the source of large amounts of laughter, good times, and memes. And it’s a little harder to believe that, almost a year later on one cold October morning, I would sit and write my […]
Brave New (Shaping the People who Shape the) World
When the teacher has to sit down and warn the class before they read a book, you know it’s going to be something. Not necessarily good, more necessarily bad, but certainly, certainly something. AP Literature is a class all about books, and many classic books (such as To Kill a Mockingbird and Romeo and Juliet) that we […]