Hi! My name is Talia Lorenz. I’m a freshman here at OU and I’m from Las Vegas, Nevada. I’m majoring in Biology and I hope to have a career in Forensic Biology, and if that doesn’t work out then I plan on getting my rotorcraft license from my parent’s flight school and being a helicopter pilot. I am the second oldest of four kids; I have an older sister, a younger sister, and a younger brother, all who I am very close to. I truly love school and working and I am looking forward to building a hopeful career for myself. As someone who is active on social media but very rarely posts, blogging is very unnatural for me, but I look forward to what I can do with this throughout the semester.
It took me a while to really brainstorm a persona or topic that my blog will take on, but after some thinking I decided on one. For Christmas, my mom got me the book The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I had never seen the movie, and once I started reading it I didn’t stop for about four hours and finished it in one sitting. I absolutely love reading, but I tend to get so obsessed and attached to books after I read them that I never want to start another one. The Perks of Being a Wallflower really resonated with me, and of course, I have been obsessed ever since then. But, because of my terrible habit of never being able to move on from books, I decided that I need to branch out and read more books more often.
For some context, in this book the main character, Charlie, has a great relationship with his English teacher, Bill. Bill gives Charlie different books that are not a part of the curriculum and instructs him to read them and write essays about them. Charlie did this to the best of his ability purely for the love of reading and analyzing literature, as well as building this special connection with Bill that ends up being an important asset to the plot. So, for my blog, I have decided to do something similar.
I am going to dedicate my blog posts to different books as I read them, talking about themes that stick out to me and what I thought of the book as a whole. As someone who reads very fast if the book is intriguing enough for me, I will likely be able to get through a lot. But, if I run out of time I might just talk about past books I’ve read and enjoyed. My second post, after this one, will be about The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which is probably now one of my favorite books to date.
If the readers have any recommendations that you think I should read, let me know and I will absolutely take them.
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Add Yours →I like the literature analysis angle for you, it fits the bit of your writing style I’ve seen very well. The way you tied in the book to your own goals with this blog was great, I love that meta-alignment. I look forward to seeing your chosen books and analysis!
Well, first off, I LOVE The Perks of Being a Wallflower! Secondly, I LOVE book reviews! Like we talked about in class, I feel like book reviews can make reading less of a solitary experience and make it something can share their thoughts about. I also love that you brought up themes – seeing other’s people’s thoughts on themes and what different themes they see in the book is always intriguing to me. I can’t wait to read!
I absolutely love this idea! I have never read The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but I might just have to read it now. I love to read as well, so I have always found it very interesting to see how one’s perspective on the same book can differ from my own.
You have a community forming already! As for a recommendation, I’ll offer not a specific book but an approach: blogging about one early favorite, a book that helped form your own identity as a reader, and that writing about could allow you to present that identity to your own blog audience, might be rewarding…