Undomesticated Words

 William? Not doing a book review? No... it can't be... Well, believe it or not, dear reader, I have decided to spend my final blog post not writing a book review. Instead, this post will be dedicated to parts I found particularly interesting in Atlas Obscura by Joshua Foer. This book is quirky and unique in that it's sort of like an atlas in that it takes you through interesting and notable places around the world, but the twist is that they are relatively.... obscure (do you get it? Because the title is "Obscura"? Really clever, I know). So without further ado, here are some places I found particularly interesting. Warning: Contains Minor Spoilers, although what do they really spoil? Real life? There isn't any "plot" to the book, except maybe the plot of real life? I feel like I should be able to describe it better but yeah.   Longplayer, London, United Kingdom   Longplayer is a song composed of six short pre-recorded pieces of Mongolian throat singin

Introduction: (WARNING: This post contains spoilers)         Hello, everyone! This blog post will be about the fifth book in the Spy School Series, which is Spy School Secret Service  by Stuart Gibbs. Have you ever heard of the Secret Service? Well, I was not aware of this before reading this book. If you are not aware, the Secret Service is a federal law enforcement agency that protects politicians of the United States (and deals with some criminal investigation). This book is going to mention the Secret Service numerous times, so I just thought it would be nice to make you aware of this. If you already know this, then good for you!          In the next section, I will talk about what I enjoyed and disliked about this book. What I liked:         1. The evil organization's plot is very stunning.  Compared to the other books in the Spy School series, the evil organization's (a.k.a SPYDER) plot is distinctly different from previous attempts to cause chaos.        2. Has unexpecte

This blog post is going to be a little bit different than ones I've done previously. It isn't going to be a book recommendation, or a book unrecommendation, but something in between the two. I'll be talking about a few books that I think are just... meh... and how to improve them or how I would have liked to see them written instead. Disclaimer : The following are entirely my own opinions. While my opinions are always factually correct, I can't force you to agree with them (yet). If you think I'm right, great. If you don't, that's alright. My point is, you can enjoy whatever books you want, and if you really liked or disliked one of the books I mentioned, that's totally fine. Scythe by Neal Shusterman  This book feels like several books ripped up and glued together. Maybe I'm not sophisticated enough for it, but it just feels like the author tried to squeeze too much into too short of a book (and the book is a pretty fair length as it is, at around 4

 Movie adaptations of books are hit or miss. They're more often than not catered more towards the general public than what the books catered to, which can cause some changes in the plot. Most of them are considered 'failures', 'jokes', or even 'non-existent' to the original fandom of the books just because of how bad they're considered. But why? Here's why.