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why you should read how it feels to float by Helena fox
BY: ISABELLA SORENSON
MIND AND BODY EDITOR I read this book during spring every year, and I’m not sure why. I might be chasing that high I experienced reading it for the first time. Well, it wasn’t exactly a “high”- It was more like a serotonin boost of comfort, and emotion. Like a crazy dream you have before waking up feeling refreshed. The book “How it Feels to Float” By Helena Fox, set in the coast of Sidney, Australia, is my favorite of all time (so far). Angela Leeper on bookpage.com reviews this book by summarizing it: “In Australian author Helena Fox’s debut, How It Feels to Float, 17-year-old Elizabeth’s father still appears to her 10 years after his death. Biz, as she’s called by friends and family, finds comfort in his ghostly presence and indulges in his stories about her childhood and his love for her mother. But Biz also feels at home among her self-described “Posse” of classmates and with her best friend, Grace.” This is not superstition or fantasy. The presence of Elizabeth or ‘Biz’s father is arguably internal. Biz goes through her life as a 17 year old, being unable to control when her father is there or not. When he is, he is usually in an outfit she had seen him in before- in a foggy memory or a photograph. And he usually says things she has heard him say before, or he doesn’t speak at all. But when her father is gone, she longs for his presence. If you’re into poetry, this book was written beautifully. I applaud Helena Fox, and I want to know if she has written more books. The major theme about this book is things talking to Biz: Her father, the ocean, and photographs she takes of anything. Her passion for photography is driven by the beautiful whispers and muffled yells of the photographs she takes of Australian winter with her father’s old camera. She goes through multiple episodes of depression and the inability to move, without the presence of her father visiting, and she doesn't understand why. The way she gets out of these episodes is beautiful to read. Anyways, I won’t spoil any more. But if you’re looking for a book to get lost in this POSTED 5/21/24 more books by helena foxMORE BOOKS WRITTEN BY HELENA FOX:
The Quiet and the Loud Read it here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Quiet_and_the_Loud/hM_JEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv =0 Summary: “A writer to be reckoned with.” —Kathleen Glasgow, author of Girl in Pieces and You’d Be Home Now A heartbreaking, hopeful, and timely novel about facing family secrets, healing from trauma, and falling in love, from the award-winning author of How It Feels to Float George’s life is loud. On the water, though, with everything hushed above and below, she is steady, silent. Then her estranged dad says he needs to talk, and George’s past begins to wake up, looping around her ankles, trying to drag her under. But there’s no time to sink. George’s best friend, Tess, is about to become, officially, a teen mom, her friend Laz is in despair about the climate crisis, her gramps would literally misplace his teeth if not for her, and her moms fill the house with fuss and chatter. Before long, heat and smoke join the noise as distant wildfires begin to burn. A novel about the contours of friendship, family, forgiveness, trauma, and love, and about our hopeless, hopeful world, Helena Fox’s gorgeous follow-up to How It Feels to Float explores the stories we suppress and the stories we speak—and the healing that comes when we voice the things we’ve kept quiet for so long. kendrick lamar and drakeBY: CADEN FELLOWS
ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR A measly two months ago, two of rap's most prominent women, Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion, got into a huge argument that absolutely blew up online. Now it’s time for the men in rap, Kendrick Lamar and Drake. This beef is extremely convoluted, so we’re going to condense it and really get to the bottom of this fight, and hopefully determine a winner. Billboard reports that this fighting has been ongoing for quite some time now, since 2011 to be exact, but it’s always been mostly friendly, kind of like frenemies teasing each other. However, that changed when Kendrick Lamar was featured on fellow rappers Future and Metro Boomin’s album, We Don’t Trust You. An album that has notoriously gone for Drake. |
In response, Drake released the songs Push Ups and Taylor Made Freestyle (yes, Taylor Swift is somehow involved in this). According to Genius, this song went at Lamar’s features with other artists, Taylor Swift. Out of every fanbase Drake could’ve gone after, he went for the Swifties, who are notoriously a little insane. Now he’s made enemies with them, which already gives points to Kendrick.
Drake releasing these songs turned out to be a fatal mistake, since right after, Kendrick released not one, not two, but three songs against Drake. The first was euphoria, which, although mean, was nothing compared to the rest of the songs. The second release was meet the grahams, easily the most brutal. CCHS Junior Avery Massey describes it as, “not a diss track, but a whole slaughter.” This song goes after Drake’s entire, and I mean entire family. The cherry on top was Not Like Us, the third song released, which notoriously has Lamar attacking Drake’s choice in dates masterfully disguised as a music reference. He sings, “Trying to strike a chord, it’s probably A minor.” Even better, Lamar sings this chord in A minor, a notoriously difficult chord to sing.
In my opinion, I feel like Lamar is winning this. He has actually had creative responses along with creative lyrics to respond to the backlash. Meanwhile Drake is releasing boring songs, and dragging people like Taylor Swift into drama that has nothing to do with them. This drama will most certainly go down in pop culture history.
POSTED 5/13/24
Drake releasing these songs turned out to be a fatal mistake, since right after, Kendrick released not one, not two, but three songs against Drake. The first was euphoria, which, although mean, was nothing compared to the rest of the songs. The second release was meet the grahams, easily the most brutal. CCHS Junior Avery Massey describes it as, “not a diss track, but a whole slaughter.” This song goes after Drake’s entire, and I mean entire family. The cherry on top was Not Like Us, the third song released, which notoriously has Lamar attacking Drake’s choice in dates masterfully disguised as a music reference. He sings, “Trying to strike a chord, it’s probably A minor.” Even better, Lamar sings this chord in A minor, a notoriously difficult chord to sing.
In my opinion, I feel like Lamar is winning this. He has actually had creative responses along with creative lyrics to respond to the backlash. Meanwhile Drake is releasing boring songs, and dragging people like Taylor Swift into drama that has nothing to do with them. This drama will most certainly go down in pop culture history.
POSTED 5/13/24