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The Picture of Dorian Gray
This Post is Spoiler Free! Here’s the thing. I am not a fan of reviewing classics (it reminds me of school, which was a period in my life where I genuinely wasn’t loving reading or writing). But I’ve been reviewing every book I’ve read this year, so I will do the same with The Picture of Dorian Gray, though the review will be short. Basically, I read this book because I have a really close friend who shared the soundtrack with me and made me want to watch the movie, Dorian Gray with Ben Barnes (really, I’ll watch anything with Ben Barnes). The only problem is that I really, really…
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Fahrenheit 451
This Post is Spoiler Free! Okay this book was fascinating. I can see why it’s considered a classic. It’s the type of book that I don’t particularly want to review because I’m honestly not sure I can review it. So instead, I’ll share a list of reasons why you might want to pick it up: The language of it is beautiful. And super interesting. Between literary quotes, sentences that leave you breathless, and the occasional bout of stream of consciousness writing, the language really offers up many things for a lot of different people. It’s fairly short and to the point. It doesn’t try to push the meaning on you…