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Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
adventurous
emotional
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Intimations by Zadie Smith
4.0
“to write is to swim in an ocean of hypocrisies, moment by moment”
“To have one layer of skin less than the others, and therefore to feel it all: the good and the bad, the beautiful and the abject. Not only to make art but in some sense to live it.”
“To have one layer of skin less than the others, and therefore to feel it all: the good and the bad, the beautiful and the abject. Not only to make art but in some sense to live it.”
Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics by Andrea Dworkin
4.0
“As feminists, we inhabit the world in a new way. We see the world in a new way. We threaten to turn it upside down and inside out. We intend to change it so totally that someday the texts of masculinist writers will be anthropological curiosities.”
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
4.0
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
4.0
“For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”
The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
4.0
“Not youthful Kings in Battel seiz’d alive, Not scornful Virgins who their Charms survive, Not ardent Lovers robb’d of all their Bliss, Not ancient Ladies when refus’d a Kiss, Not Tyrants fierce that unrepenting die, Not Cynthia when her Manteau’s pinn’d awry, E’er felt such Rage, Resentment and Despair, As Thou, sad Virgin! for thy ravish’d Hair.”
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
4.0
“Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust,
Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.”
Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.”
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
3.0
“Doors were left open, Windows stood shattering with the Wind in empty Houses, for want of People to shut them: In a Word, People began to give up themselves to their Fears, and to think that all regulations and Methods were in vain, and that there was nothing to be hoped for, but an universal Desolation”
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
4.0
“We would recognize that “punishment” does not follow from “crime” in the neat and logical sequence offered by discourses that insist on the justice of imprisonment, but rather punishment—primarily through imprisonment (and sometimes death)—is linked to the agendas of politicians, the profit drive of corporations, and media representations of crime.”