Not Your Average Book Musings

 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...

 I'm writing this from my computer. I had to take some extra time to get my thoughts in order. Circling back to my main goal, a soft rule I had for myself was that I wasn't going to start another audiobook without thoroughly explaining to the best of my ability, what I personally took from the book. That's why I'm not here to argue things, or get anybody to lean to one side, these are my ramblings. Unfortunately sometimes, that rule isn't always followed. I started a new book before I fed this book - my apologies. I didn't quite know what my expectations were when I picked this book. This book showed up in my fyp. I suppose it's just as the title says. But I didn't know how insanely rooted most of our problems are. Her arguments touched on major themes, which are usually what's always talked about, and more or less what you'd expect: Racism, Sexism, Masculinity- but she added some refreshing ones such as: Cancel Culture, The slogans we use today,...

 I'm typing this from my computer because there's so much I want to say, I even took notes on it! So I finally got through the book, I almost thought it'd never end because I couldn't fathom how many more loose ends still needed to be tied up. This contains spoilers so if you haven't read the book, and you read further into this - that's on you. I knew almost nothing of the book. I understood people read it in high school, I understood it was some kind of romance, and unfortunately that was it. I knew nothing of the characters, I heard the name of the author multiple times but that was it.  So I dove into it. I don't know if I stated before, but it originally came in three different volumes. I stand by my earlier statement in the other episode on people saying it was boring. I think all I'm doing is adding more quotes but in deeper detail. The romance is a major theme for sure, but it didn't strike me as it being between Darcy and Elizabeth at first....

 I'm writing this from my phone. I know I haven't fed this baby in a while but that's because I wasn't done with the books I was reading. I'm close to finishing my physical copy but I just got done with the Pompeii one. Ever since I first heard about the City, I've always been fascinated by it. By the body casts, the way the whole city had been obliterated, and the fact they're still excavating to this day in 2026. I've always had so many questions on it. This book has answered almost every single one of them. I learned a lot. I didn't know there was an earthquake 17 years ago before the eruption took place. The people of Pompeii were really dragging their feet to rebuild everything afterwards. It gave such a shift in perspective. Imagine having to dig up that rubble and try to make out if the ruins were either Volcano, or earthquake. That's gotta take some serious work. I also learned about the political unrest just after Rome took over. Pompeii...

 I'm typing this from my phone because I debated on feeding this blog today (I know, I know) but I haven't finished the book yet. I just got to volume three and there's so much I already want to say so here it goes. I absolutely love this book so far. The family dynamic between the Bennetts are hilarious. The teasing of the parents especially made me cry with laughter.  I genuinely don't get how people see this book as boring. It's got almost everything readers love! Gossip, family behaviors towards the other, drama (so much drama!), the mother who's dramatic about everything, the lies and deception, and the reveling of beef between certain characters, and the beloved Enemies to Lovers arch! It's all there! Not to mention this book is absolutely relatable to this day and age. Passages that I will keep forever, how to reject a man and still sound classy as hell doing it. There's so much character introspection it's breathtaking.  There was a whole par...

 This will be typed from my phone. I had to wait like a day or two to see if I could get my thoughts in order about this particular book. It was another one that came up on my For You page. The reviews were quite...spot on. Which is almost rare for a book because everyone interprets things differently. This book almost broke me.  It was about an 8 hour audiobook from Libby, one of the few which I could find at my current library but that didn't prepare me at all. Aside from the vague reviews, I went into this book blindly. That was prolly my first mistake. See, I thought it would list a couple of reasons. Maybe like, 10-15 and talk through them. Hahaha... absolutely not.  It was 99. 99 chapters, 99 reasons to not trust your own brain. He questioned everything. Everything you could possibly imagine, from how humans worked, to how advertising worked, to 99 different biases we all fall into. This book may not have been dense in quantity, but it was definitely dense in qualit...