Loony Tunes

Introduction  Recently, my ability to remember, review, analyse, synthesize, a coherent narrative about any reading has been suffering. Those who see me read, say this is because my input is immersive reading, with no output. Therefore, I am going the old school way. Following are some difficult words I encountered while reading A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett. Then, I made sentences, properly expecting a class 5 kid to be kind vis-à-vis this effort. This is because making sentences should help me figure out what I lack as a reviewer - what do I want to say. Maybe inarticulateness is best described when at least tried. Sentences sciatica  - When I was a child interested in cornflakes who made no fuss about how soggy the broth was, my grandmother fell from a flight of stairs. Our family of distant to nearest, along with a doctor collected in the courtyard. Thankfully, it wasn't sciatica but she now wears a belt. hermetically -Basically my grandmother,

Once in a few days, I sit with my book out and start writing like a student. I have been reading an anthology called Coming of Age, edited by Bruce Emra. After years, I felt compelled to sit with questions at the end of each story and write answers on paper. The following entry is from one such question.  In the two stories I read, only sadness profits. First, happy moments don’t stay; Second, it’ll pass; Third, friendships change. The two occur in the story Her First Dance by Katherine Mansfield. An older man tells a 16-year-old in her first dance that soon she’d age & would only remember that dance as something that happened years ago (not to forget, that the world would have jarred many times at her, having failed her many times). This is tough. In the other story, Initiation, by Sylvia Plath, protagonist Mellicient is thinking about her friend, Tracy, who was not accepted into the sorority & so, their friendship is bound to change. Mellicient is confi