literature
Geek literature from the New York Times or the recesses of online. Our favorite stories showcase geeks.
H.P. Lovecraft
It's been quite a while... Having been an avid reader most of my life, it goes without saying I have read many different types of things in my time. Books, magazines, encyclopedias, etc. I did notice my love for it has waned over the years; maybe it was because too many stories are similar to each other, maybe I just lost touch with the thrill of it all or maybe I just fell out of touch with imagination in general.
Julie PeakPublished 4 years ago in Geeks20 Books of 2020 (Pt.18)
You all probably know by now that I'm reading more purely because of this pandemic and being able to stay inside and not go to work. However, I do love reading at least one book a day, just to keep myself sane. People keep themselves sane in many different ways: some bake, some write, some study new things, some exercise, some relax in the garden, some sleep but we all do something - there is no such thing as doing nothing. Even when you feel you are doing nothing, you are doing something. Even at 'nothingness' you are recharging and re-evaluating yourself.
Annie KapurPublished 4 years ago in GeeksThe Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
"We learned to lip-read, our heads flat on the beds, turned sideways, watching each other's mouths. In this way we exchanged names, from bed to bed:
Kothar AljanabiPublished 4 years ago in GeeksBook Review: Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
In Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami proves himself as a leader in literature, perfectly capturing the feeling of true love within a book with so much charm.
20 Books of 2020 (Pt.17)
I think you know by now that because of this lockdown, I've been doing far more reading than normal. This means that unfortunately, I'm reading books faster than I can write my articles. But, fortunately enough for me, I've got more time to write the articles - but less time to write them because I'm reading so quickly. I guess I had the same amount of time as before therefore. That's depressing.
Annie KapurPublished 4 years ago in GeeksNovels to Discover: “Girl, Interrupted”
Hello and welcome to Novels to Discover! Last week we ventured into the nostalgic video-game loving novel of Ready Player One, and you can read the article here. However this week we are stepping into the world of Susanna Kaysen and her memoir Girl, Interrupted. The novel focuses on her mental illness as she recounts her time in McLean Hospital.
Leigh HooperPublished 4 years ago in GeeksHow To Read When You Are Anxious
As social isolation hit, many readers went out and panic bought novels the way others hoarded toilet paper. But as the days have turned into weeks, something else has started to happen: even avid bookworms are finding it hard to motivate themselves to pick up a book or to concentrate for long when they do.
Claire Amy HandscombePublished 4 years ago in Geeks10 Books That Are a MUST Read During Quarantine
10 Books that are a MUST read during quarantine according to yours truly. We are all bored out of our minds during quarantine. You can re-binge watch that show you've seen a million times, or you could try something new. Read something new. All of these books are some of my favorites that I would like to share with you. Remember these are in no particular order. I do not want to reveal which one is my top pick. Ha.
Taylor KellyPublished 4 years ago in Geeks5 Badass Book Reviews
Why I Read When we arrived at this house sitting gig in New Hampshire, our host introduced us to the house and gave us the lay of the land, including the guest room with a bookcase full of random, interesting books. From pop fiction to how to win poker hands and the stock market, to the Holy Bible and more, it seemed to have something for everyone, including me. He recommended The Book of Joy and I, recognizing a sign when I hear it, immediately dug in.
Annette KimPublished 4 years ago in Geeks20 Books of 2020 (Pt.16)
Recently, someone asked me how I read so much in one day. I didn't really have much of an answer but they asked me whether I was a speed-reader. Now, I don't like that term because I don't think I read at all, for speed. I simply read. As I have grown up reading, my speed has simply developed even though things like my eyesight and my social skills have severely deteriorated. At this point, I'm 24 and I have what some people would call, an impressive reading speed. I honestly don't care for reading speed. I care for other things - enjoyment, entertainment, analysis and how immersive the book is. As long as those things are within the realm of which I am reading, I can honestly say I do not care for speed or how long/short the book is.
Annie KapurPublished 4 years ago in GeeksMy Top Ten War Novels of All Time
War novels always make great reads for when you're looking for the intense life experiences of some of history's greatest heroes. When you're looking for what extremes the human condition can go to, when you're interested in how much we can endure and when you need a bit of a brush up on your history - war novels are always there to turn to. But most importantly, they give you an image that you and I would probably never know. They give us that image of harshness and of near-death experiences on battlegrounds already littered with dead bodies of best friends.
Annie KapurPublished 4 years ago in GeeksThe Lady Within “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Most stories come prepackaged with a general roadmap of where the reader’s emotions should go: twists, betrayals, revelations, and even exposition are expected to make the reader think, feel, or perhaps even experience a call to action. The road an author takes the reader down is often tied to some lesson or theme it is meant to embody, whether that theme is a point along the road or found by viewing its scope. Defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as, “Any narrative which is concerned with the idea of storytelling,” metanarratives are more than a linear path built on reactions and expectations. Metanarratives speak to a theme or idea by demonstrating it extrinsically, be it through the reader’s experience with the work or through the work’s interactions with dominant tropes in the genre. Enter “The Yellow Wallpaper,” a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Its narrator, a young woman temporarily living in an old manor with her husband (and eventually his sister), writes an account of her observations and experiences throughout her stay, with the wallpaper in her room becoming a focal point therein. Though the wallpaper appears hazy and abstract, behind the buds and stalks of fungus and strangled visages, in the daylight she eventually makes out the figure of a woman. She is frozen by daylight, but at night that woman creeps about the back-pattern, thrashing the front pattern and bars that hide behind it. As the wallpaper continues to clear, the narrator becomes increasingly obsessed with it, and obsessed with the lady she sees behind it. The lady seems to multiply as her pattern recurs, and she attempts to escape, strangled by the front pattern every time. Eventually the woman does seem to escape out from behind the wallpaper into the garden during the day, and she seems to multiply there as well. Strangest of all, she seems to slip back into the wallpaper by nightfall. The journey through the narrator’s writings, particularly her journey with the lady, invokes a curious metanarrative which, in a sense, can place the reader in her uncertain and contemplative shoes. The use of a mentally ill and unreliable narrator in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” creates a metanarrative concerned predominantly with a search for truth within the reader, which begins with the titular wallpaper and its illusory prisoner, continues into its vague ending, and leads the reader to question the veracity of the people and places around her.
Ryan BurnettPublished 4 years ago in Geeks