Today I finished Stephen King’s book about writing. On Writing is part memoir and part writing advice. Stephen King goes through the first part of the book reviewing his life and what brought him to writing. The other part of the book is about the actual craft: how King spends his days, how he...
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Precious Jones is the exact opposite of your typical literary heroine. She is overweight. She is black. She is poor. She is illiterate. She is sixteen and pregnant with her father’s second child. Push by Sapphire is the exact opposite of escapism. Push is the deepest, darkest of realities that no one wants to...
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Recently, I read the book that the movie Precious was based upon. The book Push by Sapphire is one of the most moving books that I’ve read in a long time. The book is about a sixteen year old girl who is pregnant with her father’s second child. Precious is illiterate, black and poor,...
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Diablo Cody, the very famous screenwriter of the much beloved movie Juno, is by no means a shrinking violet; however, her biting sense of humor and quirky view of the world makes her no ordinary “punk” chick. Her memoir of her year working as a stripper proves that while she is able to do...
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Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about images of female beauty that adorn our society and with a new article from Newsweek on Unattainable Beauty, I can’t seem to get away from the subject. For the most part it’s on my mind because I had a serious post-holiday meltdown with my refrigerator. Then I...
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