Not Your Average Book Musings

 I'm writing this from my computer. I feel like this has been a plant that's been in the sun too long and I forgot to water it. It shouldn't have taken me so long to get through a book but life does get in the way sometimes. Happy spooky season! Since Halloween is right around the corner, I figured I'd read The Phantom of the Opera after I get done updating this book! This book came to me by one of my Facebook groups when I asked for a few novels from around the world. Someone gave me this book to read. I'm not the brightest at pinpointing magical surrealism and sometimes I can't quite interpret it correctly so this gave me some much needed practice. It's not saturated with it but it's definitely there and alive as part of the story. Right off the bat, from the very first page, I knew I shouldn't take this book too literally. I did thoroughly annotate this book with I think four different highlighters. One for quotes I liked, one for Cultural referen...

 I'm writing this from my phone. I'm having.... difficulty putting my thoughts down on this and not in a bad way. I believe this book has changed my life in all the right areas. People say all the time, there's no right answer. There's no simple answer to anything because we are not simple beings. That you can't rely on anything else to change your life, you gotta figure out what your problem is. This book came to me when I had my heart broken and made me lean heavily into philosophy. The search for myself and the search for answers to navigate. I'll prolly be thinking about this book for a long time. I've already started re wiring my brain from myself to other people around me, and then to the world.  It has honestly, changed me for the better. Now as I've said from the start, I'm not here to convince people or here to say this is how to live your life. It is however, how I'm going to live my life. As the book suggests, it's not my task on h...