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    IELTS Band 7+

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Howl and Other Poems
Howl and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg | 1956 | Fiction & Poetry
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I don't overly enjoy poetry for the most part, but I have to say, I really enjoy Allen Ginsberg's writing.

I had previously read "Howl" and "A Supermarket in California" which I very much enjoyed. The other poems, being new to me, I thoroughly enjoyed.

Ginsberg has a very interesting writing style that is very vivid. I love how he speaks directly to his fellow poets in some of his poems. In writing them in, he is giving them an even greater form of immortality.

I enjoyed the poem "America." It's asking the citizens of America what the war is worth, but America is also asking things of him that he wouldn't be able to live up to. He questions his own writing in this as well.

Ginsberg has a very musical beat to his poems that makes you have to keep reading. It pulls you along, especially when you read it out loud.

Overall, I very much enjoyed this little book of poems.
  
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I love Rebecca Wells' writing and most of her stories, but this one was definitely not one of my favorites. I felt it was a bit on the goofy dramatic side, and very predictable. I enjoyed the characters, and loved the setting and all the sweet, charming southern people who lived there, but it just didn't lure me in as her other books do.

I could have done without the La Luna / Moon stuff entirely. The writing also seemed very juvenile, even as Calla grew up. It was a cute story, so I wouldn't NOT recommend it - but not that fun to read, and a bit out of Wells' character for writing style.
  
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy
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The writing style is really engaging. I never lost interest or got impatient for the next bit (0 more)
Didn't really have a satisfying conclusion. More about the journey than the destination (0 more)
  
Wonder Woman (2017)
Wonder Woman (2017)
2017 | Action, Fantasy, War
The cast. Gal Gadot and the star-studded cast saved the movie (0 more)
Zack Snyder's influence, the horrible and predictable writing (0 more)
Captain America ripoff with a dash of Thor tossed in
  
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Sep 30, 2017
Writing about visual art, perhaps more than any other cultural category, tends toward the incomprehensible and, well, artless.

But there are of course some wonderful, noteworthy exceptions to this norm.

Here are The Vulture's favourite art books — a term that encompasses books about art, books by artists, and books of art — from 2016.


 Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000–2015

Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000–2015

Jennifer Liese

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Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000–2015 is the first major anthology of 21st-century artist...


art essays
How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking About Art

How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking About Art

David Salle

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In How to See, David Salle explores how art works and how it moves us, informs us and challenges us....

Dali: Les Diners de Gala

Dali: Les Diners de Gala

Salvador Dalí

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“Les diners de Gala is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste … If you are a disciple of one...


Art food
Chardin and Rembrandt

Chardin and Rembrandt

Marcel Proust

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Long overlooked in Proust’s posthumously published writings, Chardin and Rembrandt, written when...


art essays
Before Pictures

Before Pictures

Douglas Crimp

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Douglas Crimp is the rare art critic whose work profoundly influenced a generation of artists. He is...

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