g.m. writes
Short analysis of quotes from books I have read recently and their relevance to today.
Latest Posts:
Sally Rooney: Conversation With Race
How can Sally Rooney’s Conversation With Friends relate to the Black Live’s Matter movement.
Finding Yourself in Bernardine Evaristo’s ‘Girl, Woman, Other’
How Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other provided me with friends and a determination to ensure nothing stopped me from fulfilling my potential.
Why I Never Want to be a Mother…
How Stockett’s The Help made me equally hate and love my mother.
What does Atwood think we can learn from insects?
How Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye presents a shockingly up to date account on today’s environmental crisis.
Cry A Little Louder
How Atwood’s Surfacing shows crying has no gender and is the most liberating sound we can make.
Hustling to Madness
How Death of a Salesman shows us that we are all still living in the American Dream and the importance of rest.
Are You A Disgrace?
How Coetzee’s novel Disgrace taught me that I was born a disgrace.
Can Billie Eilish Propel Philosophy Away from Old Men?
A new philosophical argument is emerging…
Has The Pandemic Turned Us Into Sceptics?
How McEwan’s Novel reflects a Saturday we can no longer have, and we become what his protagonist yearns to be.
“Half of what I write is garbage, but if I don’t write it down it decomposes in my head”
Jarod Kintz
I started by just tabbing quotes I was compelled to, that I didn’t want to get lost.
And now I’m here, using those quotes to work my way through my feelings towards the world.
