Annie Kapur
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Book Review: "Silent Film: A Very Short Introduction" by Donna Kornhaber
You all probably know how much I love silent movies. In my opinion there is something about older cinema that 21st century cinema simply cannot capture. Pre-1960 we had actors with multiple talents, great amounts of malleability and incredible charisma. Nowadays, I would say that is definitely feigning and films has become a lot more vapid, about the 'star quality' and how much plastic surgery one person can get rather than the actual acting talent of the individual. Silent film is the one era of film that cinema has to thank for being the start of it all. From 1895 to the late 1920s, we saw great amounts of changes and business going on and Donna Kornhaber captures it all.
By Annie Kapur6 days ago in Geeks
Exhausting Conversations
It's been over a week since I've released an article relative to any unpopular opinion I have and here this one goes: I find the vast majority of needless conversation somewhat exhausting. This is not to say that all conversation is exhausting for everyone (but it is for me so forgive me please) and yet, there are certain kinds that are especially tiresome. They can be grouped into:
By Annie Kapur6 days ago in Psyche
The Big Book Review: "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman (Pt.3)
Read Parts 1 and 2 here: Welcome back to this series on Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, part of the 'Big Book Review' in which we look at sections of a book every month in extreme detail, focusing on what they have to teach us about their topics. Part 3, entitled Overconfidence looks at what businesses, experts and individuals may overlook or misread due to their own faith in themselves. A more extreme and intricate form of the 'Dunning-Kruger Effect'. If you haven't read parts 1 and 2 then I suggest you read those before continuing, of course these articles will cross-reference each other and ideas from previous chapters are not going to be re-explained unfortunately (for the sake of length and word count).
By Annie Kapur7 days ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Details" by Ia Genberg
This is one of those books where I browsed the bookshelves for about a minute before landing on something that felt more Virginia Woolf than linear narrative. The Details is a story about love and grief, a family that isn't liked and a family that is quite literally chosen. It's about sickness and emotional destruction, it has a main character who is constantly trying to make sense of their past. Like the book I Wished by Dennis Cooper, this book feels like a stream-of-consciousness where we are invited into the world of the main character, we are pulled into their thoughts and even though we have only just met them, we are sitting and holding their hand as they speak to us from a sickbed, from a bedroom or even from a reel of photographs representing each important memory.
By Annie Kapur7 days ago in Geeks
Raspberry and Lemon Coconut Cream Vegan Cupcakes
Okay, so I'm back making more cupcakes and trying out some recipes for spring. If you've been here since my Christmas Eve baking marathon, you'll know that I can be a bit overly fond of spending tons and tons of time on things (it was over six hours of baking if you really wanted to know). If you want to remind yourself of our awesome Christmas flavours then you can click the link below (and also read about my situation of dancing around the kitchen covered in flour whilst the 80s radio station played in the background)...
By Annie Kapur7 days ago in Feast
Book Review: "Best Woman" by Rose Dommu
If you're looking around a bookshop and can't find anything you like then go to the 'trending' shelf and just pick a random thing without thinking about it, take it to a chair and start reading. If you read more than ten pages in one sitting, get the book. That's a rule that I think is quite good to follow. This is how I managed to find Best Woman by Rose Dommu. I wasn't looking for anything, I couldn't find anything I was meant to be looking for and so, I went to the 'trending' shelf and picked up the first thing I saw. I regret nothing.
By Annie Kapur8 days ago in Geeks
Book Review: "I Wished" by Dennis Cooper
I have to tell you about this: I walked into the bookshop and sat down with the first book I found, it was titled I Wished by Dennis Cooper and told the story of George Miles - the addiction, the love, the rock and roll and everything in between. You guys know how much I adore the literature of the 2SLGBTQIA++ community and well, this is no exception. I Wished is a severely emotional, heartbreaking stream-of-consciousness narrative that I have no idea why more people haven't read. Queer Lit, Manchester - I love you for without you I would never have found this beautiful and earth-shattering novella.
By Annie Kapur9 days ago in Geeks
'Less Sugar' Lemon and Blueberry Vegan Cupcakes!
So, you probably saw on my Facebook that I've been doing some springtime baking - and don't worry - it's still vegan. I'm not a vegan but the people who eat my cakes and biscuits are. This one is a lemon and blueberry cupcake with a rosemary and vegan cream cheese buttercream. I've dyed the buttercream a lavender purple but you can use any colour you please. And remember, these are 'less sugar' as well, so we opt for healthier sugary options at times and we see how far we can reduce the sugar without changing the texture, using other things to sweeten our cake.
By Annie Kapur10 days ago in Feast
Book Review: "Anne Boleyn: 500 Years of Lies" by Hayley Nolan
When I first started this book and read some of the cutesy side-notes (such as, and I shit you not, the use of hashtags in the introduction), I sat back in my chair, covered my face and thought "oh, here the f- we go..." The final boss of the millennial quirkdom 3rd-wave-feminist social-media-brained pseudo-historical pop-culture middle-class putrid quippy bullshit. Here the f- we go, indeed. Then I realised that I am pretty much the same and though this took me a while I also realised: that is basically what I do here. Atop of this, Hayley Nolan isn't exactly wrong. Anne Boleyn's records are written mostly by sociopathic men both past and present who were either so regarded with religion that they didn't know where the sun went at night (and they didn't care, but they definitely pretended it was a flex) OR, they are so concerned with her appearance, they forget she was a person - typical of the soft-brained male-dominated academic world.
By Annie Kapur10 days ago in Geeks
The Face of Another by KΕbΕ Abe
The Face of Another was first published in 1964 and hearkens back to the themes and ideas once presented by Franz Kafka, especially when it comes to the book's theories of identity and the self. Samuel Beckett is another writer the author is often compared to since the novel blends absurdity and existentialism with these strange and sideways explorations of human nature and how we become slowly alienated from our true purpose.
By Annie Kapur11 days ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Parade's End" by Ford Madox Ford (Pt. 4)
Rating: 5/5 - what a fitting end to such a heartfelt novel of war! *** This volume is set on a single June day in the years after the First World War. While the earlier volumes charted the approach to and experience of war, this instalment turns to its aftermath. Here is Ford commenting on a society stripped of its old certainties and confronting the psychological and moral wreckage left behind. It feels more like the ideas presented by an Evelyn Waugh novel. Is it really time to let go of the past? Yes, yes it is.
By Annie Kapur11 days ago in Geeks
