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Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, I've been slowly ploughing my way through my other books, that I thought it would be a good time to start a new one. This book I got for my 15th birthday and its the Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. I've never read his other classics like Animal Farm. I was told that Orwell's writing style was always a bit complicated to understand but reading Homage to Catalonia so far has not been too bad. I had to look up some of the historical context behind this book before reading it since I don't know so much about the Spanish Civil War. All I knew was that the book was based on Orwell's personal experiences as a militiaman (a member of a militia which is an army formed from the civil population in this particular emergency) fighting for the Republican army during this war. What I found was that on the 17th of July 1936, led by General Franco, the Spanish army started the Spanish Civil War by rebelling against th...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Today I wanted to talk about something that I heard on TV that actually has got a lot to do with the book that I'm currently reading. I was watching Doctor Who and it was the specific scene, where Bill, the Doctor's companion, starts stamping her foot because the Doctor doesn't try to save the poor boy who's just been killed by a bunch of aliens. Understandably so, she's upset that the Doctor doesn't try to save the boy and it shocks her because she's never seen a person die before. She also begins to question how many people have died because of the Doctor. The Doctor then replies saying that he's lost count and this outrages Bill. Anyways, long story short, the Doctor says something that I thought was quite philosophical. He said that he is over 2000 years old and that he doesn't have the time to be outraged. This really made me think because in modern day society, there are so many people wh...