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    Dolores Claiborne- A victim, survivor and a great mother

    June 19, 2023 - By 

    In all senses, Stephen King’s novel, Dolores Claiborne, published in 1992- the year I was born- is an unconventional horror story. The author did not follow any traditional route for this novel- from the writing style to the horror elements, everything was different and out of the box. First things first, the uncouth language… There is no King’s novel without a foul vocabulary. When asked why he uses it, King explained that he intends to keep it ‘real’. That’s how the people in those parts spoke. Perhaps, he was right. The words that I don’t use in everyday life, made…

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    Alice Walker and Hate: Myop, Beautiful World, Death Of Innocence

    December 23, 2022 - By 

    I did a little research about the author after finishing the post. This post or the blog does not in any way, endorse the author's anti-semitic views. Hate mongering is serious. Before, I begin the review, I want to say that I do not support Alice Walker's ideology. Flowers, written by Alice Walker, is a short story originally published in 1985 in the short story collection ‘Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women’. This micro-fiction displays the horrible face of mankind- their hatred and discrimination. It is a story about a 10-year-old African-American girl who loses her innocence early in…

  • Books - Feminism

    Girl By Kincaid Is Everything You Need To Understand Feminism

    December 18, 2022 - By 

    I decided to read 50 short stories written by women, and share my reviews online. I stumbled upon Girl by Jamaica Kincaid, which summarizes the answer to the question ‘why do we need feminism?’. As the year-end draws, I reflected upon some of my weaknesses, and one stared at me with monster eyes: Inconsistency. So, I chose to push myself and write one review each day for a short story that I read (I am hoping to succeed *fingers crossed*) Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and…

  • The Prophet on Marriages
    Books - Relationships

    Kahlil Gibran’s Life Hack: The Nature of Great Marriages

    June 23, 2021 - By 

    The Prophet speaks about the truths he knows before leaving the city of Orphalese. The seeress Almithra asks about love for which he says: “For love is sufficient unto love.When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.” ‘Love’, The Prophet | Gibran, Kahlil You can read his words on love here. Then, she asks him to speak about marriages. What does a successful marriage needs? We fall in love, and we get married to the person we fell in love with. But do all marriages have “happily…

  • The Prophet on Love
    Books - Relationships

    Kahlil Gibran’s Life Hack: Why resistance is pointless in love?

    June 22, 2021 - By 

    It is Part 2 of the series: Khalil Gibran’s Life Hack. Gibran speaks of love in his second chapter on the Prophet. Love is always complicated and messy. It makes you question all of the beliefs you have on your ideology. Love has been here on this Earth for centuries. Poets and writers come and go; they become immortal by writing about love. Though we know love for so long, we still don’t know how to define love. We don’t know what love is not. You can read Part 1 of this series here. A seeress named Almithra, who believed…

  • 'The Prophet' by Kahlil Gibran
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    Kahlil Gibran’s Life Hack: How to Move Forward Without Sorrow?

    June 19, 2021 - By 

    Kahlil Gibran’s ‘The Prophet’, an inspirational fiction, is a great reservoir of spiritual experiences. Gibran is notably the third-best-selling poet behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu of all time. Khalil Gibran, the Lebanese-American author of this beautiful life hack, is still a literary hero. The writer’s best-selling book ‘The Prophet’ is a deviation from the classic structure of the poem. His power came from some great reservoir of spiritual life else it could not have been so universal and so potent, but the majesty and beauty of the language with which he clothed it were all his own Claude Bragdon You can…

  • Why paperbacks are better!
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    Why paperbacks are better: I am surely taking sides

    May 17, 2021 - By 

    What is the first thing you remember when you think about ‘paperbacks?’ Is it about your favourite author? Is it about the last book you read? Or is it about the book you love the most? I remember picking my first paperback book from the British Council Library when I went on a school trip. The criteria for choosing that book: None. Honestly, I went for the book cover and name that intrigued me. Well, I never finished that book until today. I returned it after reading some fifty pages barely. It was my first book experience. Naturally, you might…

  • Books - Feminism

    The Handmaid’s Tale: A Powerful Voice Against Repression.

    November 22, 2020 - By 

    Ta-da! Welcome to another post on my blog. Hope you are having a good day so far. Before we discuss a book on fun-reading Friday, allow me to share a glimpse of an incredible poem that I read a few days ago on the Internet. The woman in the spiked devicethat locks around the waistand betweenthe legs, with holes in it like a tea straineris ExhibitA. The woman in black with a net windowto see through and afour-inchwooden peg jammed upbetween her legs so she can’t berapedis Exhibit B. Exhibit C is the young girldragged into thebush by midwivesand made…