Everyone has the books that changed their lives. Or at least, book lovers have books that have changed their lives. For many reasons people have important books. Books that you love just because you love them, a book that deeply effected you or a book that simply changed the way you think. I have a few books that have most definitely altered my life in some way. Here are the books that have changed my life.
I’ve started a new little series on the blog, and that is ‘Lessons we could learn from…’ Each month i will talk about a different character, that doesn’t need to be a protagonist, just any character that i feel i have either learned a lesson from or i think others will benefit from hearing about the lessons that character brings to life. These posts will be on the first Monday of every month and will allow me to talk about my personal thoughts on the messages within novels that i’ve read or studied. It also means that if you haven’t read a novel i want to talk about, it gives you a little bit of an idea of the characters within it. Keep your eyes out for the posts that are going to come!
Continue reading “Lessons We Could Learn From Holden Caulfield”
Being a Uni student it means I have an extortionate amount of time off in the summer. Unlike the rest of my peers who spend these months having a social life, I become a hermit and read. This summer I’ve managed to read a total of nine books at the time of writing this. Continue reading “WHAT I’VE READ THIS SUMMER AND TBR!”
Begrudgingly I picked up The Catcher in the Rye in June, judging that I wouldn’t enjoy it mainly because of the title “classic” it has bestowed upon it. I have come to think in the last few years that many teenagers and young adults don’t want to pick up the ‘modern classics’ such as The Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies; we’ve somehow been put off them (my guess is having them rammed down our throats during GCSE’s). However I enjoyed delving deeper in to the world of George and Lenny when I was fifteen, so I decided with a little prompt to pick up J.D. Salinger’s most well-known work in preparation for my dissertation next year.
Continue reading “Thoughts On The Catcher In The Rye & Modern Classics”
The Little Contemporary Corner 