With little time to sit down and read full-length works, I turned to articles and essays in my downtime. From blog posts to newspaper articles to humorous things I pulled from Buzzfeed, I thought I’d share some of those that have kept me thinking all month long. Without further ado, here is my first installment of “Monthly Musings.”
- NY Daily News’s article on the “fed up” circus elephant who was lynched for “murder” in 1916 – Dad showed me this article when it was first printed, and I think it’s stuck with me partly because of the graphic photograph (you've been warned) and partly because I can’t believe that someone thought to do this to an elephant. I was horrified.
- Some of the Best Book Dedications You Would Ever Read – Remind me to do something as epic as this when I write my bestselling novel.
- 11 Female Inventors Who Helped Power the Information Age – Some seriously bad-ass women doing some seriously bad-ass things with their brains.
- Why We Should Stop Body Shaming and Be Kinder – Thank you, Hayley, for sharing such a powerful post.
- NY Times Magazine's "From Jamaica to Minnesota to Myself" – Novelist Marlon James's poignant essay about being gay. "I knew I had to leave my home country – whether in a coffin or on a plane," says James. The sentence gave me chills.
- "The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another." – This lovely quotation is by Henry Van Dyke and couldn't be truer. New York had a snowstorm the first day of spring this year. Thankfully, it wasn't as bad as meteorologists had predicted.
- Vanity Fair's Kenneth Branagh on the "little revolution" he brought to Cinderella – I've loved Branagh ever since I saw him in Hamlet, so the fact that he directed Cinderella too makes him one of my favorite people in Hollywood right now.
- The Atlantic's article on why Americans overlook the importance of WWI – I was wondering this myself. I feel like Europeans have been making a huge deal of the centennial while it probably hasn't occurred to most Americans.
- 5 SEO Tips for Bloggers – Media Marmalade is my go-to for blogging tips, and this post was no exception.
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