Angela Carter

I was interested in the idea of Angela Carter's books as i liked the idea of the short stories. However, from reading the first short story in "The Bloody Chamber" i kind of realised that i was in for a dark and gothic ride.
Angela had a very fortunate childhood in the sense that her family where very well off but she wanted to break away from all that and she had some confusing and mentally challenging relatoinships and was a strong feminist voice in society especially through the forms of her books.

The bloody chamber

I approached this book as a starter to see if i would be interested in any of her other work. I did find the whole book to be beautifully written with detailed language of places, characters and emotions which where all heavily supported by mostly gothic but sometimes lovely metaphors. However, the subject of most of these short stories as a whole are as far away from lovely as you could ever get.


I'm not a big reader as a whole, but i wouldn't really say these kind of books are my thing. After reading each story i found it to get more and more disturbing and very dark. Obviously the subjects of most of these stories are metaphors of disturbing situations and predators (much like the original fairytales that these stories are based off) just maximised such as men being represented as beasts a lot throughout the book.which i think is translated well over these rewritten fairy tales. However, I don't think Angela's overall aesthetic of the bloody chamber and after some research some of her other books it's perhaps a bit dark for me. I think a challenge on this brief to move away from something happy may be a good idea but a lot of the subjects of her stories may be a bit too much.
I was happy to read a masterpiece in english literature though as devastating and disturbing as it might be.

wolf alice story response with ink and inverting

oliver sacks

Oliver Sacks is an established British neurologist, historian and author he believed that ''the brain is the most wonderful thing in the universe." 

i have come across Oliver sacks before through other books on mental health but have never looked to thoroughly. I think the brain and how it works is a very interesting concept and an exciting subject to learn about, so i was excited to read the man who mistook his wife for a hat. 

After reading the title i wanted to draw that scenario pronto. This book is full of interesting knowledge, humour and melancholy at times. The book is split up into 4 different parts focusing on various kinds of disabilities.