I’ll try to keep it really brief and see if still this review gets accepted by this entity that I now find myself calling by the epithet “The Editor”. As I read “Bent Back Tulips”, my first thought was: What?” That pretty much summarizes my first impression. I pray that’s enough for a paragraph on first thoughts on a blog title in the eyes of The Editor. If he approves it, then you’ll be reading it. If not, this review now rests in not that much peace in the limbo where rejected reviews go to. Wherever it is.
The design’s not really appealing but it’s for from revolting too. It’s simple. I can totally live with it. Colors don’t match to my taste. I’d never wear, let’s say, a skirt with the background color and a blouse with the pattern of the posts column, but that’s just me. I don’t know much about fashion and after all fashion here in Brazil might be totally be different from where 20-year-old Cathy lives. There are flowers everywhere, tulips, of course and it’s easy to read the posts, as it comes to simply black on white. Of course I haven’t tested all links, but I noticed at least the one referring to the first post doesn’t work.
Posts are long but she writes well enough to catch my attention and keep me going even when she talks about internet/technology, subjects on which I have virtually zero knowledge on. You can get to know Cathy a bit by reading the section “About” and then jumping to “100 things” section where she lists facts about herself. Other sections are “fun stuff”, where you find a few jokes, and “books” (pretty much just a list of everything she’s laying/has laid/wishes to lay eyes on.
Although it’s simply a journal kept by a student of technological stuff, I actually took pleasure in reading it.