The Treasure Chest

-WARNING: Spoilers Ahead- It has been 7 days since I finished The Song of Achilles, a gay tragedy focused on the main character, Patroclus, and his lover, Achilles, and their entire relationship up until they die, and I have been in mourning ever since. This book gives me the same exact emotions I get when I think of Past Lives, BUT I can confidently say that this is now my favorite book every written. I've never read a book that has moved me as much as this one has. THIS is how love should be. They are two completely different people who love each other unconditionally because of and despite their differences. They were together for 18 years before death split them apart and then they came back together in the afterlife. When I first started this book, it had been almost a year ago, so I had forgotten most of the details that were in the beginning parts of the book, however I would love to have a chance to pick the book up again and re-read it so that I can experience all these em...

The other day I was at a sleepover and we decided to watch a movie called Monster. It's a Japanese film and it is pretty hard to explain without spoiling it, but it  starts off about a mother who thinks her son is being bullied by a teacher at school. In this post I won't explain the movie because I just want to get my thoughts out about it, so please go watch the movie before reading it (we watched it on Amazon Prime). The movie was a very interesting experience for me. You will see, as you watch it, more questions pop up than answers, but those questions eventually get answered the move point of views you go through. Except for the one question at the end of the movie: did the boys survive?  I am a very hopeful person, despite how realistic I am, and I assumed they had survived and taken a different path or simply just ran away. The clues we have to support this are the open window at the bottom of the train as well as the train tunnel that the boys walked through after esca...