So I was watching The Power of the Dog the other day and to be honest I did not love it. But despite this, I had a wonderful time watching it! The viewing experience was really pleasant. And it sort of made me wonder how nice it would be if the whole average movie experience would feel like this.
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It’s fall in most parts of the world. I am spending a year on a tropical island 50km away from the equator. In a land where it’s always summer, I find myself missing the whole fall a-e-s-t-h-e-t-i-c-s. I am beyond happy spending my days on a beach drinking coconut water. But sometimes, I do yearn for a warm fire and a hot drink keeping me warm from the cold sinister autumn air. So I’m turning to books to quench that need. So here is a list of all the spooky but not necessarily horror books that bring fall around me.
It’s fall and the new line-up for this season’s anime has been out for a while.
I’ve started some, I’ve dropped some and I don’t plan to watch many. Please note that I have not added summer delayed anime to this list. That is because I have already talked about them on another blog post linked here.
But based on what I’ve seen to date, these are the anime I am excited about this season:
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[Originally posted in Nepali Sansar]
Seto Dharti, one of the most important books in modern literature, turns 10 this year. The book follows the story of a child widow as she goes through many hardships in her life. Tara was born on the date of the 1934 earthquake. This was one of the worst earthquakes in the country’s history. Gandhi claimed it was providential retribution for India’s failure to eradicate untouchability. Continue reading “Colorful Desires and Colorless Culture – Seto Dharti 10 Years Later”
Unless you’re living under a rock (which I hope you’re not, wouldn’t be comfortable), you’ve heard of the Demon Slayer series. Adapted from the manga of the same name, the series has been the new glorious thing to come out of Japan. It had been popular enough on its own, but the Mugen Train movie seems to have helped it reach a new high.
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I found the Spring 2021 anime line-up to be a bit too underwhelming. It feels like all the good stuff is being postponed because of the pandemic. But another anime season is here and here is a list of all the animes in the line-ups that have got me excited for this season. Continue reading “2021 Summer Animes That I Am Looking Forward To”
The New Adult is a new-ish literary category that has been in the vocabulary for roughly a decade. It is considered to be a level up from the Young Adult genre and includes themes that are usually too mature for that genre. It also features protagonists who are past high-school age and is usually based in colleges and universities though that’s not required.
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1. Barakamon
Synopsis: Calligrapher Seishuu Handa punches a judge of an art exposition who calls his work mediocre. His father then “exiles” him from Tokyo to a remote village, and hilarious antics ensue.
In a new environment, Handa works on his calligraphy and does some growing up with the help of eccentric and loveable locals of the island, including the loveable village rascal Naru. As the anime progresses, Handa learns to be less uptight and works to find his unique voice as a calligrapher.
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Rodion Raskolnikov, Crime and Punishment
Talking about Dostoyevsky’s characters, David Foster Wallace said that the best characters “live inside us, forever, once we’ve met them.” And Rodion Raskolnikov is one of the most complex and unique characters that he has ever created.
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Spoilers Ahead
The Last House on the Needless Street is a horror book written by Catriona Ward that follows Ted, a suspect in a missing child case from 11 years ago and is told through multiple points of view including one from Ted’s cat Olivia.
The book has been highly praised by numerous high profile authors including Joane Harris, Joe Hill, and the King of horror himself, Stephen King. King had even gone on to state that he hadn’t read anything this exciting since Gone Girl.
Continue reading “Mental Illness is the Twist! A Review of The Last House on the Needless Street”