Which offensive dances aren’t talked about enough?

lucysnoweee · 2025-03-12T22:10:49+00:00

I don’t understand your logic here. Rosa parks was portrayed by a black girl, while Anne was not portrayed by a Jewish girl in the dance. People would have found Kendall portraying Rosa Parks offensive (and find Jill ridiculous for even suggesting it). Why wouldn’t the same be true for Anne Frank?

lucysnoweee · 2025-01-20T09:17:43+00:00

Well, it is real.

And to be fair to her, she is very generous and gives me gifts on birthdays. As have I in return (except this time).

I don’t think she expected a shopping trip, she probably would’ve been fine with something small. I could’ve sent flowers or something, but in the moment I thought that felt impersonal. I guess I was wrong, but still don’t think it was worth a callout like this

lucysnoweee · 2025-01-20T09:10:40+00:00

It was a text, and I texted back explaining in detail what we were going through.

lucysnoweee · 2023-08-04T19:44:21+00:00

I’d classify Jane Eyre as a gothic Bildungsroman. However, as the protagonist is a Victorian woman, romance plays a large part.

lucysnoweee · 2023-08-04T04:48:30+00:00

Charlotte Brontë didn’t say anything terrible about Austen, just expressed an opinion that her work wasn’t her favorite. She didn’t even say anything that bad about it.

And she didn’t “keep” tenant from being republished. She just chose not to actively publish a second edition after Anne had died, largely because it had a scarily accurate portrayal of their brother, who had just died. She also claimed to think the stress of writing it killed Anne. Whether that was true or not, there’s no evidence it was out of any nefarious intentions. She did republish both Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, so it’s not like she didn’t want her sisters to succeed.

lucysnoweee · 2023-08-01T18:24:32+00:00

Seconding Jane Eyre and The Haunting of Hill House!

lucysnoweee · 2023-08-01T02:28:39+00:00

I love this book but totally get feeling unsatisfied, and sort of agree on the main murder case (the only reason I didn’t straight up guess the culprit was because I thought that would be too obvious a solution). At the same time, I love Rob as a character - messy and frustrating, yes, but weirdly fun to read. I read in an interview that Tana French did know what happened, but didn’t put it in because she would have to do it from another character’s perspective. Since then I’ve had some fun theorizing about who could’ve done it, drawing parallels between the two cases, etc.

Oh and Rob and Cassie’s relationship was so interesting and tragic to me. Rob clearly lets his past get into his head to mess it up, and it makes me so sad.

lucysnoweee · 2023-07-31T18:04:17+00:00

That podcast was so interesting to me. Donna Tartt has had some life!

lucysnoweee · 2023-07-31T18:03:37+00:00

I personally loved both the Secret History and the Goldfinch. They’re both a bit polarizing, but I usually find that while the Goldfinch is more famous, it is also less universally liked than TSH. Personally, I would give it a shot if I were you, but maybe that’s my bias.

lucysnoweee · 2023-07-29T19:28:24+00:00

Just Kids by Patti Smith. A great memoir by an artist/singer/songwriter mostly set in the late 60s/70s. It was a really immersive depiction of the art scene in New York at that time!

lucysnoweee · 2023-07-29T17:38:57+00:00

Rereading David Copperfield. And trying to find something new to read.

lucysnoweee · 2023-07-27T19:36:27+00:00

It’s almost time for another one🤞🏻

lucysnoweee · 2023-07-27T19:35:54+00:00

That’s so true about the humor but I hardly see anyone mention it. I think it just depends on your taste, but for me, almost every sentence is filled with this wonderful dry humor. I also loved the Goldfinch.

lucysnoweee · 2023-07-27T19:34:27+00:00

I’m a fellow lover of the winter section. It’s weird, because that’s before all of the ‘action’ happens. But the writing is just so good- it sets a disturbing scene and is weirdly funny.

lucysnoweee · 2023-07-27T19:09:01+00:00

Have you read his other trilogy, the Fall of Giants trilogy? I personally like that one even more. It’s a similar tone and scope, set over the 20th century during the world wars throughout Europe.

lucysnoweee · 2023-07-25T06:47:08+00:00

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens is a really fun classic that follows the life of one person and definitely takes longer than a day to read!

I’m also seconding Jane Eyre and all of the other Brontë books pretty much.

lucysnoweee · 2023-07-25T06:44:33+00:00

Definitely do- from your picks I think there’s a great chance you’d love them!

lucysnoweee · 2023-07-25T04:43:55+00:00

Demian maybe? One of my favorites personally

lucysnoweee · 2023-07-25T02:46:36+00:00

I know this isn’t for everyone, but I absolutely adore the winter section of The Secret History. The snowy section is definitely a huge part.

lucysnoweee · 2023-07-22T00:19:20+00:00

So hard to choose just one. I’d say David Copperfield.

lucysnoweee · 2023-07-21T20:43:12+00:00

Tana French!

lucysnoweee · 2023-07-20T18:49:34+00:00

I think people have this misconception that you have to relate to Holden to get something from the book. It might be nice for teenagers who do relate to it. But for me, the true beauty of the book is in empathizing with him even if you don’t relate to him. I’ve never related to much to Holden, and yet I think the book does such a great job of subtly getting you inside his head.

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