Bon Iver (Justin Vernon) became famous after releasing “For Emma, Forever Ago” in 2007, an acoustic album recorded in the woods of Wisconsin while battling mononucleosis. Many of his songs are about getting over his ex-girlfriend, and as a result come across as sad but…
Everyone has varying reactions to certain topics depending on age, taste, values, and personality. We often question what is the ideal age to start listening to certain genres of music, television shows to watch, book to read, websites to browse. It is up to us…
…is the modernist classic “the love song of j. alfred prufrock” (by t. s. eliot). one of its most famous lines, which you will often encounter quoted out of context: Do I dare to eat a peach?
Team C reading questions. Responses of 250-300 words are due by 9PM on Wednesday 9/17 as an original post. Don’t forget a creative title for your post. 1. Imagine you are the script doctor tasked with adapting TFIOS for the screen, and the producers have…
We began Tuesday’s class by bringing up my blog post discussing Wilson’s change of style in chapter nine of “Let’s Talk About Love”. As a class we came to acknowledge that Wilson had a more open approach towards Dion in that chapter. This led to…
Team B reading questions. Responses of 250-300 words are due by 9PM on Monday 9/15 as an original post. Don’t forget a creative title for your post. 1. How would the novel be different if Augustus narrated it? How would it be different if it…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfFcCwHN0Uw These are just a few of the many ‘item numbers’ that you would find in a Bollywood movie. The songs are completely irrelevant to the plot, but are required to promote the movie, and give audiences a reason to watch it. Their over-the-top, unrealistic…
just wrote something that devotes a paragraph to The Fault in Our Stars. one of my favorite things about her is that she has no high-brow/low-brow hangups – she is as likely to like a formulaic network drama as an expensive HBO prestige show.
Before beginning to read The Fault In Our Stars, I immediately recognized that the book looked appealing to people of all ages. Between the clouds and the scribbled writing, the book looked generally easy going and happy. The bright blue cover and the “#1 New…
In the opening chapters, Hazel and Augustus bond over reading each other’s favorite novel. Through this sharing we begin to learn more about the main characters individually, but also what they mean to each other. Augustus clearly likes Hazel enough to invite her to dinner,…