#Bookreview : Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Author: srisays
#Bookreview : Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language. Why are my sides so sore and achy? It’s from crying, I’m told. I did not know that we cry with our muscles. The pain is not surprising, but its physicality is, my tongue unbearably bitter, as though I ate a loathed meal and forgot to clean my teeth, on my chest a heavy, awful weight, and inside …
#Bookreview : The Illuminated by Anindita Ghose
#Bookreview: The Illuminated by Anindita Ghose
This is my last book review of 2021. It was a great year and I feel ecstatic that I could keep up with my reading and atleast penned down few book reviews. as much I love reading, I love writing about them. I am wrapping up this year with this great book and hoping for a great bookish year ahead. A Happy New Year 2022 ! This is my last book review of 2021. It was a great year and I feel ecstatic that I could keep up with my reading and at least penned down a few book reviews. …
#Bookreview : An Educated Woman in Prostitution -A Memoir of Lust, Exploitation, Deceit by Manada Debi, translated by Arunava Sinha
Indian society holds great pride in its rich culture and values and prostitution is one such job which is considered lowly and menial. Our society looks down upon prostitutes and they are often shunned and considered as ‘lesser beings’. What we fail to realise is that prostitution is also a product of this cultured society which is deep-rooted and took birth from the age-old customs and from the society of the elites. This is an enlightening memoir of such ‘an educated woman’ from the well-off society who embarks in the journey of prostitution after her beloved betrays her. A great …