Welcome post, Dec. 28 2021

Welcome to my book blog!

Hello Readers!

My name is Ashley and I have been an avid reader my entire life. My start of consuming literature came from my mom, who I saw reading all the time when I was growing up. Not long after I learned how to read did it become one of my favorite hobbies. Nowadays, while still in college, I still make time to read my "fun" books outside of my assigned textbooks and my interest in written storytelling has only grown.

I wanted to share my thoughts on the books I read someway, somehow. I tried making videos on YouTube or BookTube, or maybe TikTok (BookTok) but I was never drawn to those mediums as much as I am to creating a blog about them. I feel that this will be the perfect place for me to put down my opinions and have all my thoughts in one place.

So, the point of this blog is to review the books that I read and recored my reading history for the years to follow.

A little about me, I like to lift during my free time, I love puns and dad jokes, and I hate all podcasts except the Minimalists Podcast.

Thank you for reading my first installment, I hope you'll stick around so we can get to the books!

I run an Instagram account @booksbyreview

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What If's

What If's By Ashley The Science Fiction and Fantasy genre's of literature can be hard to describe. They can take place anywhere, in space, under water, virtual realities, or nowhere at all, in some made up place like Middle Earth in Lord of the Rings. One author, Veronica Roth, described it as the genre of "What If's". What if these certain worldly limitations vanished, or what if humanity discovered this new technology, what if something or everything was different, what would it do to humanity. Authors make us these scenarios and let it play out, focusing in on one character living in that "What If", and playing out how they would respond. Thats what makes this genre so special, there are no rules and authors play gods. For me, the difference between Science Fiction and Fantasy is that in Science Fiction, those "What If's" come from a new discovery, something that someone discovered and explored and it changed the world as we know it. In...

Ender's Game vs. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Ender's Game and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Orson Scott Card and Gabrielle Zevin Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you. On the surface level, Enders Game and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow have nothing in common. In fact, the only reason I even thought about these two books being comparable was because I read them one after another, and both had an impact on me, but I wasn't sure what is was. Enders Game is a science fiction novel written in 1985, and is about one boy, Ender, being the only hope for the human race to defeat a war against a bee-like alien species. The training for this was was done through strategy games and fake battles, and training began at 6 years old for Ender. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is realistic fiction and about two people coming together and creatin...

Joseph Cambell's Monomyth

Reading Update In my Reading Fiction course, my professor started class by saying he was going to change some of our lives that day. Simultaneously, he was going to ruin every movie, book, and basically story telling for us. He did this by showing us Joseph Cambell's Monomyth concept. I have a huge interest in writing as well as reading, as they kinda of go hand-in-hand and I found this very interesting fro not only a readers perspective but from that of a writers. The monomyth is the idea that every hero's story can be broken down into these 12 different stages and has 8 different archetypes. In this installment, I want to breakdown these steps, and in later posts, I'll use this to breakdown the different books I read and talk about on this blog. I'm going to start with the 12 different stages. ...

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