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Showing posts with label Romeo and Juliet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romeo and Juliet. Show all posts

Friday, April 28, 2023

One for My Enemy by Olivie Blake

All the Romeo and Juliet vibes.
And the Shakespeare vibes.
I feel like there were more Shakespeare vibes that I was missing...because Roma gave me Lady MacBeth vibes...
432 Pages

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

An Arrow to the Moon by Emily X R Pan

Hey is that a reference to the Leo DiCaprio Romeo and Juliet
Hey look. West Side Story. 
I'm not crying, are you crying.
The Chinese mythology. The Romeo and Juliet. The commentary on fjkldadfjkla
400 Pages

TS Song: .. the two obvious choices are Love Story and the Archer

Friday, December 17, 2021

Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong

The whole vaccine plot-line just really...That doesn't poke at my 2020/2021 flashbacks at allll...I'm fine
"Father I crave violence"

Did it take me a while to figure out what the cover was...yes.
Me throughout the book (not necessarily in order):

The fluff. Like... So necessary. I just wanna go look at fanart now. And read some fanfic. 
An out of context: 

Epilogues. Epilogues. Epilogues. I have a very specific scene I want to reference from a hero movie, but it would literally spoil the whole thing if I did it.
I'm just...going to go cry...because I have emotions...
AND THERE'S ANOTHER SERIES IN THE SAME WORLD COMING. Chloe Gong owns me. 
Read the series and then ask me about it. Because I have THOUGHTS that I could make into an essay. Chloe Gong likes Taylor Swift and the clue level and foreshadowing: it's Swift level. And yes. I am going full-Swiftie on this.

512 Pages









These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

Marshall and Benedickt are just iconic and honestly. Perfection. Marshall is so extra and I stan that. Like. He quotable
The Romeo and Juliet tropes, and the moments when there's homages to the writing
"The human equivalent of stale bread" ...I'm going to write that in my insult journal to save for later....
I've been remembering the story (the original), so I feel like I'm connecting dots and

464 Pages



Thursday, February 25, 2021

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

I kind of want to go reread/check all the things that happened in Romeo and Juliet to see how many of the scenes/quotes have been adapted.
oooooh masquerade.
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Y'all can drag Romeo and Juliet all you want, but man it has the all the tropes.
464 Pages