confessions of a literature nerd

Cannery Row made me happy; it showed that no matter how ugly or dishonest people are, giving a good memory or happiness to someone is a thing of beauty.

My favorite thing about Shakespeare’s plays is the deaths, the Irony in them is hilarious. (Julius Caesar and, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet are just some of the ones I find at least slightly amusing.)

Despite everything that Atticus represented I don’t care that I’m not above being happy when people like Bob Ewell die.

This was one of the best books I had read until I got to the end, then it became one of the worst.

If Romeo and Juliet was re-written in modern day it’d be a bigger joke than Twilight. She was 13 year old child and he mistook lust for love. (By that I’m not saying it’s a poor peace of literature, I’m just saying that they were hardly old enough or knew each other well enough to truly love each other till the end of time.)

Helena and Demetrius’s love felt wrong to me because it was forced upon him by the flower.

When I first read it I always referred to Lennie as being sort of a child, it didn’t completely occur to me that he was mentally challenged till my teacher talked about it.

It is the only war novel I actually enjoyed reading because it made the confusion of war real and pointed out that it is never just a fight of good vs bad.

This book was written to bring awareness to the horrid conditions of prisoners in the early 1900’s, it bothers me that some things still haven’t changed

If being rich means living a life like Gatsby I never want to be rich