Spiritus Mundi

No one said this would be easy. On the contrary, most people seemed to say that just trying would be enough because most people don't make it to the finish line. Just starting this project is something to be proud of. I don't know if you know this about me, but that's not really how I do things. [Though, if I could have that mentality about doing the laundry, I totally would.] When it comes to my passions, I don't easily give up on the things I start. So when I committed to NaNoWriMo this year, I knew that, while I may not finish on time, I would come out on the other side with a novel. In case you don't know, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. It's a challenge that takes place every year in November, when people from all over the world come together and commit to writing 50,000 words over the course of 30 days. I completed the challenge yesterday ( a day early! ), but there's still one more day of NaNovember! So let me spend it tell

Reviews Without Spoilers is a series in which I review the books I've read without giving away any more than the inside cover plot summary would. Parents tend to say that they don't compare their kids. We all know that's probably not true, but it's definitely  not true of us as a society. So, when I first heard that Hank Green (of vlogbrothers, Crash Course, SciShow, Dear Hank and John, etc.) was publishing a novel, I couldn't help but mentally compare him to his brother John Green ( The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down, also The Anthropocene Reviewed, vlogbrothers, Dear Hank and John, Crash Course Literature, etc.). I've read many a John Green novel. I say that it was to keep up with my students, so I could relate to them about their favorite books, but the truth is that I just love a good YA novel. The best of them bring honesty to real life problems, not only for teens, but for all of us. Turtles All the Way Down  felt that way for me. Sur