Victoria Brown
Bio
twenty-one & longing.
lover of words, tea, & antiques.
Stories (31/0)
You Know Me Well & The Fragility of Friendship
My first new read of 2022. And yes, of course, it’s another YA book. What can I say? I like what I like. Or maybe, just maybe, I’m still drawn to the genre because I’m still holding onto something that could have been, that was never truly there.
By Victoria Brown6 months ago in Geeks
Franny & Disillusionment
Franny. Oh, Franny, Franny, Franny. I read “Franny” – the first half of J. D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey – and I had to stop. Much like my heart ached for Salinger’s Holden Caulfield, my heart ached for Franny Glass, though in a different way. My heart ached for Holden and his anger and disillusionment with the world; a fictional crush spanning his decades and my years. A crush alive at twenty-one just like it was at sixteen. I’ve never stopped looking for a touch of Caulfield in every man I’ve encountered.
By Victoria Brown6 months ago in Geeks
A Little Something Different & What It Taught Me About Writing
I like to reread books, what can I say? I love reading about and buying books, but actually reading them is another story. Disclosure: I am an affiliate of Bookshop.org where your purchases support local bookstores. I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.
By Victoria Brown6 months ago in Geeks
Little Fires Everywhere & The Complexity of the Mother-Daughter Relationship
Finally finished my first non-YA read of the year and it was a good one. Disclosure: I am an affiliate of Bookshop.org where your purchases support local bookstores. I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.
By Victoria Brown6 months ago in Geeks
May '22 Reads
May was another hot and heavy reading month; although, this time, there were only five books conquered. I hit a slight reading slump, but I haven’t come to terms with the idea of “DNF’ing” books. On one hand, I applaud those who do, but on the other hand, I believe there’s something to be taken from every book read. Or rather, every piece of media consumed.
By Victoria Brown6 months ago in Geeks
April '22 Reads
I read six books in April, which, for most people, is a lot. More than some people read in a year. More than some people have read in years. And to be honest, I hadn’t read that much since high school, since before college – where I majored in English – took over, since before life took over. I was reading so much that there wasn’t time to write about each book I read. Or rather, I didn’t make time to write about each book.
By Victoria Brown6 months ago in Geeks
The Spectacular Now & Youth
My favorite quote from Tim Tharp’s The Spectacular Now comes from the last page: “That’s the one-two punch right there, wanting to love and wanting to be loved” (pg 294). It’s hard to love at seventeen, eighteen, twenty-one, twenty-three. Harder to love when it’s one-sided, or stuck in the purgatory of living life and “what do I do now?”.
By Victoria Brown10 months ago in Geeks
Looking for Alaska & Morality and Invincibility of Youth
“Someday no one will remember that she ever existed” is the only line I have underlined in John Green’s Looking for Alaska, and while annotating is hit or miss for me, there is something to be said with that line (pg186). I am petrified for death. Petrified of not waking up someday, being lost in my own oblivion for eternity. Whenever someone dies, I get overwhelmed in the moments of thought - much like Pudge and the Colonel - but it leaves my mind relatively soon - much unlike Pudge and the Colonel.
By Victoria Brown10 months ago in Geeks
I Really Miss Who I Used To Be
I’m a recent college graduate - go noles - stuck in her childhood bedroom, running with the same social circle I had my senior year of high school doing the same things we did back then. Everything, yet nothing, has changed. Seventeen-year-old me wouldn't recognize twenty-year-old me if we walked past each other on the street, despite the fact that, save for five tattoos, we look physically the same. It’s everything else that’s different.
By Victoria Brown11 months ago in Humans
Falling in Love at Fifteen
The most influential thing that has happened to me was falling in love. I was fifteen and naive and thought I could take on a long distance relationship spanning 741 miles and four states. We were both young and we thought, we knew, that we were in love, and that was all that mattered. We loved each other, and we thought we could take on the world together, while not actually physically being together. We wanted a future together, and we were destined to reach it, no matter the distance between us and the struggles we knew we would face.
By Victoria Brown3 years ago in Humans
