Gluten Free Brötchen: Book Reports

  Finished: 13/12/24 Flying to Nowhere was a relatively short book, less than 100 pages and small, so I finished it in just a couple of days. I don't feel like those days were wasted since this book has been on my "to read" list for a while now, but I'm glad to have gotten it over with and out of my life. This book was not good. I think the writing was really lazy and the supposed "allegory" of this book was very surface level stuff; and completely overshadowed by the sexualization of young girls! I had to look up if the author of this book had any sexual crimes in his past because the sexualization was just getting so constant, it was almost to the point of obsession. To start off, the synopsis on the back of  Flying to Nowhere  states that this book is an "allegory." I do not, whatsoever, see this book as an allegory. When I think of an allegory, my mind immediately goes to the classic Plato's  Allegory of the Cave . Every aspect of Plato...

Finished: 9/12/24 I abandoned the book I was originally reading for Piranesi instead. I think the next couple of books I'm going to read will be fantasy books like this one, instead of realistic fiction. Fantasy books help me take my mind off things which I need right now. I also read this book because I heard it's similar to one of my favorites: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (which, I'll be abbreviating as HoL  for the rest of this report). For the most part, I did really enjoy Piranesi, but there's a glaring plot hole that I didn't realize existed until I was in the shower the night after I finished it. -I come to some great conclusions in the shower. I want to do a little bit of house-keeping here first: I recently turned 24 (yay for me) and in this new year of my life I want to make some changes to how I go about doing reports. These reports have been taking me longer and longer because I keep having to force myself to do them instead of wanting to d...