Little bird little bird I’m over it 🤦‍♀️ This is starting to drag 😩

Someone convince me to power through

I’ll start! I haven’t read the book yet (alas, it was lost in the trenches of my TBR), but my vote would be Junie by Erin Crosby Eckstine! I’m a total sucker for illustrated covers, and I love the blend of colours.

This is a post to appreciate hand made art by graphic designers and artists, so please try to only include works that are human-made! =)

Hello everyone! I'll try to keep this as short as I can. The part after this is the context, and that is the longer bit. If you don't care and you want to skip it, go to the capitalised sentence and that will be the actual question and point of this discourse.

I've almost never analysed a book. I only did once to train to do it and I didn't do much with it because it was just training. Only used it to make a better review.

I have to do an essay on whatever I like for school, and obviously this can't be the topic because I'd have to read 3 books for next week, one of which I left to my aunt and is currently on the other side of the country, and I just don't have time to do that and study, but that is the reason why I had this in mind. I'll probably do this this summer, when I'll be freed from high school, and if something decent comes out of it I might even start a youtube account and make this into a video essay (I've been meaning to do this, but I'm so scared and don't have any quality camera to film with, so if I try out I'll have to save to get one, on the matter, if you have recommendations on cheaper cameras I can easily connect to my computer you'd be a lifesaver). Either way, even if in the future, I want to continue this project.

Basically, it would be a look on oppression, internalized oppression and the weird situation of being elected by your oppressor and so not belonging to either group anymore, done by analyzing three fictional books that treat these themes in different ways. One of them would be centered on misoginy (actually, in the book there's transphobia, homophobia and stigma on mental illness too, which I'll treat as well, but I'm taking this one more as an example of the first, and it will be the most throughout analysis since I am a woman myself), one on homophobia and one on racism. I'll try my best to have someone from the marginalised groups I'm not a part of read the script before I record the video if I decide to share this.

SO, NOW THAT I'VE GIVEN YOU THE CONTEXT: one of these books I would be analysing is Babel by R F Kuang. The other two, I had to reread either way. I'm 200 pages into Babel and I really don't want to go back and read it all again this summer, and neither do I want to start those 200 pages again right now to analyse them.

I do remember some details, because they are so fresh, but I don't have considerations or exerpts taken from the text. Some parts in reference to the topic I'll be treating are already underlined because I had found the writing beautiful, but that is not enough. 200 pages to me is a lot right now because I'm very busy and I don't want to erase all my progress.

What should I do?

Again, I'm so very sorry if this is so long. Synthesis isn't one of my best abilities.