literature
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The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi
Book Review by Janx Blurb: One photograph, one treasured memory, one chance to go back In Mr. Hirasaka’s photography studio, in the mountains between this world and the next, someone is waking up as if from a dream. With a… Continue reading
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A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
Book Review by Janx Its already the end of September and most of us still haven’t asked the person we like for a cup of coffee. And reading slumps eat away at our brains and bones, the way the thunder… Continue reading
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My father loves my mother…
My father loves my mother, And it shows, When she shows him a dress and he can’t react how she wants, So, his search history is filled with variations of, How to compliment your wife properly. My uncle loves my… Continue reading
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A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945
-Vikram Seth Analysis and Themes… -Janx 🙂 The poem relates to the bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An attempt at capturing the shock, horror and gore that came over people in those sudden moments where their lives changed forever. The… Continue reading
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Heart /House
I think I’ll pack my feelings, In that brown briefcase, And leave this heart behind, Because it has leakage, And the marks on the wall, Look like you, They are red, And make me want to claw my eyes out,… Continue reading
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Anne Frank analysis [first quarter]
Important Events: The first most important event of their lives was when they got a call up for Margot (Anne’s sister) to go work in Germany on ‘July 5’. This forces them to shift to the annex before they originally… Continue reading
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Welcome To the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop: Book Review
When we sit down to read, we expect some things from a book. We expect fuubutsushi throughout and characters who have sophrosyne by the end of the book. We like to have frissons by the time we are done with… Continue reading
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Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde…
Not a book review, By Janx 🙂 I recently finished reading this amazing piece of literature, and I absolutely had to share it with you people. This book has been the death of me for around a month and if… Continue reading
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Little life…
I was 5, When my mother told me, To wear a dress, And host a tea party, I did it, And it did not suit me, So, I put on blacks and blues, But kept my pretty shoes, And hosted… Continue reading
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Lovers of the stars…
In the dark of this cold night, I sit alone, A poet of melancholy, I stare out the glass, That separates me from the sky, And it’s wild wind, Should it drive my mad mind, Insane, I stare and stare,… Continue reading
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Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter
Book review by, Janx Rom-Com has been an ever-loved genre of our times, one I have felt quite reluctant towards for long. But after hearing all the praise for the latest pieces by Lynn Painter, I was intrigued to check… Continue reading
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Medusa’s love…
I wish you’re the one, That I’m always dancing with, But it’s your eyes; That I feel like I’m drowning in. I’ve seen many eyes like yours, And I’ve drowned in them too, But yours don’t feel the same way;… Continue reading
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Why I write…
I was only seven when my mom gifted me my first novella. It was a bare 150 pages big, but for my tiny self, reading the whole book in 24 days was an amazing achievement. From then on, it was… Continue reading
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What you are looking for is in the library… By Michiko Aoyama.
Book review by Janx. “Library, What a nice sounding word. So comforting. I feel like I’m a student again. Library, Am I allowed to borrow books?” What is a library? A place, a word or something else? I don’t know,… Continue reading
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Two Worlds…
Two worlds, That is where I live, Misery, Melancholy, Sadness and tears, Tired, Empty eyed, A depressed lover of lies, Empty hands, Stained with ink, What should be clean nails’ Filled with paint, An empty minded lust, Is this world… Continue reading
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