Paige's Lit Blog 🔥

Wow that second half went by so fast! This class was honestly a blast and kind of sparked my love for reading up again, so thanks for that. As of Midterm, I had 80 points. With books I read in the second half, I got an additional 20 points. Additionally the final assessment and writings gave me 8 more points. (Bloodchild plus all three future writings). Finally, with attendance, I didn’t miss any classes so that's an additional 8 points. In totality, I should have gotten an extra 36 points, adding up to 116 points for the semester. (I'm coming back into recommend a book: Library of the Unwritten. Most likely it would go into the contemporary fantasy week, but it's a story about hell's library full of unwritten stories and the librarian that takes care of them. They way the author explores the memetic nature of stories and how life goes on when you are gone is really interesting to think about. I wouldn't say it's very revolutionary, but I ate it up extremely fas

Sketch One: My cell rings for the third time in an hour. The caller ID is from my father, but I know it’s my mother calling because of the argument I just had with her 10 minutes ago. Despite the fact that we’ve had this same conversation at least ten times this month, I know she will not yield. It’s just in her nature. Putting down my tablet pen for a second, I answer the phone, put it on speaker, and get back to the commission I have due tomorrow. Through the conversation we have had a million times over, I tell her I’m doing ok alone out here. She doesn’t know how much of a struggle it is to keep power and a decent internet connection coming out this way without folding to Them. She doesn’t know about the twenty emails and five phone calls I get daily from them trying to convince me to let Them frack on my land because “the world” needs the fuel. She doesn’t know about the fact that I haven't been able to drive for the past two months because They’ve blocked my driveway until

     When I went into The Gospel of Loki, I was extremely excited by the forward. I’ve read and listened to my fair share of myths and legends through everything from video games to podcasts, so the prospect of having a catalogue of Norse myths through the eyes of Loki sounded extremely entertaining. The gravitas seeping through every word of the foreword made me super excited to see these classic tales, told from the “right” perspective. Yet, as I read, I became less and less entranced by Joanne Harris’s writing. I guess maybe I was expecting something more unique, but when I realized that the book was just going to be Norse myths I’ve heard before almost verbatim with the occasional snark, I lost interest pretty fast. There are some really interesting themes and motifs about how winners are the ones who write the stories and how outsiders will, by nature, never be fully accepted by the majority and were interesting to explore. Loki’s personality was another big factor for my declinin