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JONATHAN LIVINGSTONE SEAGULL book review

I've read that book many many times since I was little and every time that book amazes me and makes me feel so hopeful and beautiful. I think this book has many things to give each and every time you read it, just like the little prince. It is literally the first book that I decided to read after I was done with uni, and I finished it in one sitting. I highly recommend you read the book. I give it a solid 5/5 stars.

⚠️ Spoilers ahead ⚠️ (not so much but anyways)

This book is about a seagull who decides he wants more in life, other than fly just so he can eat; he was to truly learn how to fly. This whole book is about overcoming yourself and your boundaries, learning about yourself and what you can do, and embracing your differences. It is about never giving up and never fearing failure.

The way the seagull society is portrayed in the books, is the most beautiful allegory I've read in a while. It combines the society's 'norms' with what society deems as a god or a devil. The constant fight to show greatness to others while fearing for your life because you will either be idolised or be exiled.

This is not like my other reviews, it's a shorter one, mostly because I don't have many things to say about the book, because, as a book, it is so simple and yet so deep. This is why I love it so much.

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🫵 Jonathan Livingston Seagull ass theology

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The revolution isn’t a rocket but a river that flows and pours forth: Passage to the Plaza by Sahar Khalifeh

The revolution isn’t a rocket but a river that flows and pours forth: Passage to the Plaza by Sahar Khalifeh, translated by Sawad Hussain

Each summer night in Nablus was just like the next: breezes pregnant with the scent of jasmine, dew and whiffs from the sewers. The municipality went to great pains: every morning the marketplace smelt like a freshly cut bouquet of the most fragrant flowers; however, by the time the afternoon rolled round—when the hustle and bustle had died down and the shops had closed and the rugs and carts had…

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“Wolff brings a compelling internal intensity to Kevin, and through Bradshaw’s modern lens we have more understanding and sympathy for the character’s emotional instability and mental health than in previous incarnations of the play.”

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Theatre Review: The Seagull/Woodstock, NY (Pershing Square Signature Center, Off-Broadway) ★★★★

Playwright Thomas Bradshaw retains the spirit of one of Chekhov’s most celebrated works while bringing it sharply into present day America with his adaptation, The Seagull/Woodstock, NY, currently receiving its world premiere Off-Broadway produced by The New Group at Pershing Square Signature Center. As the title suggests, the action has been transposed from rural Russia to Woodstock in the…

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My Top Posts in 2022:

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Buck seeing Eddie and Chris on the beach together, back-lit by the sunset, and that fear of never finding his happiness unwinds, even just a little - and he has his realisation, he’s at ease with them, he gets it, with them... and oh that scares him even more, because now what does he do...

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#4

Buck coming out of his coma with amnesia, and staying with Eddie and Chris. Only he doesn’t remember them both. He goes by Evan, and calls Eddie ‘Ed’. And it’s jarring for Eddie and Chris.

But sometimes he’s in the kitchen humming a song that Eddie recognises as one he would dance around with Chris to, or he makes breakfast for the Diaz boys because he’s restless one morning and up early only for it to be Christopher’s favourite. Chris comes out with some fact and Buck beams at him and calls him, “Buddy” and both Chris and Eddie are have lumps in their throats. He puts on the TV at a specific time one night because he felt he had to and it’s when Eddie’s favourite telenovela would be on air.

All these small things that make Buck, Buck to his Diaz boys.

Even when he can’t remember them, he still instinctually remembers, in his actions and words.

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UK 12 points?! Douze Points?! REALLY?!

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Eddie picking up the ‘cursed’ bracelet, and yeah he doesn’t get injured - but he finds out Buck has been keeping the sperm donation details from him and getting stuck in his head again, and that Buck has also misinterpreted the Will, not realising that for all this time Eddie was giving him a place with him and Chris - and that hurts even more than if he had been.

107 notes - Posted October 25, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

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My best post was a GODDAMN SEAGULL?!?!

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auuugh just reread All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury :’/

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Finished reading "The Jungle Book" to my daughter.

I love reading archaic English. All those 'thou's and 'thee's are just so delightful to me.

Next book is "Jonathan Livingston Seagull".

I really like this book. I've read it a few times before.

It always feels so portentous, like it's supposed to be a big new-age Jesus allegory or some such.

But I've never been able to figure out any deeper readings with this text, so I always just enjoy the surface-level fable of like, "what if Goku from Dragonball Z was a seagull wouldn't that be pretty neat??" and leave things at that. Still a fun book though, at whichever depths you can plumb.

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the day Caesar dies a pink seagull in baby-colored air (First published in The Pan Haiku Review.)

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reviews: The Seagull (three versions)

I’ve watched three versions of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, all found on YouTube;

1. 1975 Broadway Theatre Archive television adaptation: This film for television features stage actors acting on location at a summer house in New England masquerading as a Russian dacha. The acting is in the traditional theatrical style, which means it’s stylized and unsophisticated compared to film acting, which is naturalistic and nuanced. This is also a thoroughly American production in feeling and actors’ mannerisms, and they fail to capture the Russian spirit of the original play in any way. I don’t recommend it.

2. 2021 Fitzroy High & Collingwood College production: This is a filmed stageplay with high school and college students acting, of which there are a fair number on YouTube in recent years, and one shouldn’t expect very much from them given their green age. The acting is not good and the lack of stage props or backgrounds make it hard to visualize the setting. I can’t imagine anyone but the actors’ families enjoying this production. I definitely don’t recommend it.

3. 1970 Soviet film directed by Yuli Karasik: I’ve recently watched a lot of Soviet cinema, which has a history of insightful, intellectual filmmaking and naturalistic acting, including a couple fantastic adaptations of Chekhov works, so I had high hopes for this film and saved it for last, certain it would trounce the other versions on YouTube. The acting is indeed better, nuanced and intelligent, but the plays last two hours while the film is a peppy hour and a half, so the film excises a lot of extraneous dialogue that helped illuminate the characters’ various personalities and motivations. The film is good, though not as great as the other Chekhov films I’ve seen nor as great as it could have been had it been longer and more faithful to the text. On the whole, though, it is a good film, tightly paced and faithful to the action of the play at large, and I recommend it as the best among the options online for The Seagull.

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Haikyuu Chapter 358: Sea Gulls

REFLECTION:

Everyone regroups for the next set and then...holy shit, the next set starts within the chapter. I honestly cannot remember the last time that happened. The other teams end the chapter commenting on how it's anyone's match...

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Rain like this doesn’t wash away the filth: Hawa Hawa and Other Stories by Nabarun Bhattacharya

Rain like this doesn’t wash away the filth: Hawa Hawa and Other Stories by Nabarun Bhattacharya, translated by Subha Prasad Sanyal @seagullbooks

The gleaming wet road, the rusty tin roof of a motorcar repair garage, behind it an old paint-peeling stunned-still old house and a chimney precariously propped up with haphazard wires—the sky can see all this. And, not as clearly, the burnt-black tin-backed shops and buses and the in-between blocks of darkness that were Matador sheds and not the half-rotten bellies of fish but the shells of…