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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Author: J.K Rowling So, for the first time ever, I read a Harry Potter book. I’d never expressed any interest in reading the series but decided to give it a shot and ended up really enjoying it. I have several thoughts, most of which have to do with neurodiversity/autism, that have come to me after reading my first Harry Potter. I hope that you will enjoy hearing my thoughts! Disclaimer: I do not support any of J.K Rowling’s discriminatory views. I’m very passionate about social justice and do not stand for discrimination of any sort. Her views have hit me hard as well since some of her discriminatory comments were…
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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Author: Grace Lin In honor of AAPI (Asian-American Pacific Islander) month, I’m going to review a book that features not only AAPI characters but is written by an AAPI author as well. The author, Grace Lin, also illustrated the book, and her artwork in the book is very lovely! I really hope you’ll check this book out so you can add more diverse books to your own personal book collection! [Just an FYI: The book jacket is gorgeous but I felt like I needed to cover up a small bit of it since the name of the store this book came from is on the front of it.] Where the…
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Noteworthy Book Quotes
I’ve been thinking a lot about book quotes lately, so I decided to share a few that really resonated with me (FYI: I’ve not read all of the books listed here and am not endorsing all of the books/authors; I just really love these quotes.) If you have a favorite/favorites, I would love to hear about it! Thanks! “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.” That Was Then This Is Now by S.E. Hinton “People are really like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows. And maybe it’s a good thing, the way we never stop surprising…
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Turning Red
The Pixar movie Turning Red, which takes place in the early 2000s, is about a 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian girl, Meilin (or Mei) Lee, who’s an only child and who’s desperate to please her mother all the time (and sometimes at the expense of her friendships); and from research that I’ve done, it seems like this desire to please is not uncommon in Mei’s culture. One day, Mei wakes up to find that she has turned into a giant fluffy red panda! It turns out that a family curse (which was once a gift) has every female in her family transform into a red panda once they come of age (or start…
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Media of the Month(s)
So, at the end of each month, I’m going to be doing a Media of the Month post where I recap some of the media that I’ve checked out recently. I’m probably only going to put the things that I enjoyed (but if something is really bad, I might just share about that too!). Since I missed the month of January, I’m combining January and February. I hope that you enjoy this list and that it will inspire you to check out some of these awesome forms of media! Spiderman: Homecoming [CW: some violent scenes and some strong language] So, right now I’m making my way through the MCU (Marvel…
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“Unmasked”
There’s something that I’d like to share that I’ve wanted to share for quite a while but I kept chickening out. I want to tell you all that I’m autistic and, though some neurotypical people seem to think so, being autistic is not a bad thing at all. It’s quite nice to see and view the world from a unique perspective, and I don’t know why some people view neurodiversity as a bad thing. I actually did not get diagnosed until I was older, I think mostly because I’m a female, so I’ve had to deal with comments from other people like “Oh no you’re autistic! I feel sooooo bad…
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Hawkeye
This week I’m going to be reviewing Hawkeye, a miniseries that I really enjoyed. Hawkeye has been well received by critics, some calling it the best Marvel series on Disney+ (along with Wandavision and Loki that is). Hawkeye has also been streamed a lot since it came out, making the top 10 on several streaming charts. I definitely found this to be the best Marvel show that I’ve seen on Disney+, which I will talk about more below. FYI, this show does have a Christmas theme to it, and I loved watching it at Christmas, but I think you can watch it even if it’s not around Christmastime. I was…
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Teen Wolf
I’ve been wanting to review more TV on my blog, so I’m going to start this week by doing a review of Teen Wolf. When it was announced that MTV was going to remake the 80’s movie Teen Wolf into a TV show, a lot of people thought this was a ridiculous thing to do; but boy were they wrong! Teen Wolf received positive reviews from TV critics and was a hit during its six-season run (several of the seasons were split into two different parts) from 2011 to 2017; and it was by far MTV’s most successful scripted show. It was also announced just this year that a Teen…
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Speak
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson Today I’m going to be reviewing a book I really enjoyed, a book that was actually a banned book. When Speak was published back in 1999, it received positive reviews from critics and was a bestseller; and the book was made into a movie in 2004, starring Kristen Stewart, but it seems like the movie went unnoticed when it came out. I hadn’t heard of it at all before I read the book. However, despite the book’s positive reception, it was banned by many schools/libraries across the U.S. The reason behind the ban was because of the novel’s inclusion of rape, language, and a supposed bias…
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Once again, I decided I had to review another Marvel movie after watching this one. The idea to make Shang-Chi into a movie goes back to 2001 but Marvel did not get serious about it until the end of 2018. When Shang-Chi was released back in September, it received positive reviews from critics who praised the acting (especially the acting of Simu Liu and Tony Leung), the choreography of the action sequences, and the representation of Asian culture. Some people say it has done for the Asian and Asian American community what Black Panther did for the African and African American community. While I did like the last Marvel movie…