Leave it to the Prose

Over quarantine, I was digging through some of my old books and came across Warriors, a series that I was quite obsessed with when I was younger. Remembering how much I liked the series, I decided to pick up the books and start reading them. Warriors is a fairly long series - that I believe is still going on - that follows four Clans of cats. Each Clan has their own unique name (ThunderClan, RiverClan, ShadowClan, and WindClan) and traits that make them stand out. The entire series is split into little subsections (each about 6 books long) that follows a specific character in a certain era. It begins by following a kittypet or housecat called Rusty who is later quite an important character in the entire series. I stopped reading Warriors around the time I entered middle school and while I was reading the books I had during quarantine, I don't think I would ever read them again. Although I do say the storyline is creative and the drama and romance is entertaining to read, I thin...

by Aditi Adve Harold Crick is about as boring a man as you can imagine. With the dream and ability to become a mathematical theorist, he instead works for the IRS. A man of habit, he counts everything - how many strokes he takes to brush his teeth, the number of steps from his apartment to the bus stop, the minutes he allows himself for a coffee break. For nine years, every weekday is the same for Harold, until one fateful Wednesday when he hears a voice while he's brushing his teeth. No matter how much Harold tries to ignore the voice, it continues to narrate everything he does. His coworkers grow concerned when Harold describes a voice none of them can hear and send him to audit Ana Pascal, an anarchist baker. He inexplicably develops a crush on her, while she hates him and everything he stands for. He puts her from his mind, though, because he keeps hearing the voice talk about him to some imaginary audience. Deciding the voice seems to be narrating his life, he convince...

Overview: Fated   Benedict Jacka is a fictional book set in London, England and follows our main character named Alex. In this world, magic exists however, it is fairly underground and has been kept away from the public eye for a long. The main character Alex is a mage and is a diviner, someone who is able to see into the future. Alex has a traumatic past living with a dark mage (I will explain this later), and as such, is a fairly reserved person. He runs his, what I can only describe as magic pawn shop, in peace. He has one friend, a girl named Luna, who has magical issues of her own. But his life is altered when he is requested by one of the higher-ups in the light mages government (I will also explain this later) to help them decipher a puzzle the will lead to a powerful relic. From their he is thrusted back into the life he once lived as a prominent mage and we see the innerworkings of the society this book takes place in. My opinion (spoilers): This book was fairly o...

Zev M-M For what probably is my last post ever on this blog, I want to take a look back at what we’ve read this year in Language and Literature. This post will be somewhat of a book review combined with a ranking list. Remember that everything I say about these books (and other types of writing) is my opinion. I am not ranking them based on how well written they are, but simply how much I enjoyed them. I may have forgotten something we read, so if you notice anything missing from the list, or if you disagree with my rankings, please let me know in the comments. Honorable Mention: The blogs. I have really enjoyed writing these blogs and there have been some posts from others that are well written and engaging. It was fun coming up with ideas and sharing them with other people, and a lot of the posts were genuinely interesting to read. Still, I couldn’t realistically rank any of our writings above the professional texts we read. 6) Poems: While I really liked some of these...