Siddhi's Blog

 I am a slow reader but I live for the sense of achievement that comes with finishing a book.  Anna Karenina is pretty daunting with its eight hundred pages lying on my shelf staring at me while I read ten different books that are two hundred pages each. The little books are the best things to exist. This year I read some really interesting ones that blew me away. I am listing down my favorites in this blog . 1. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka  The Metamorphosis is very close to my heart. I love Kafka and this was my first time reading absurdist fiction. The protagonist turns into a bug and the story revolves around his self-loathing , isolation , guilt and slowly becoming an object hated by his own family .It is remarkable and intense. Bizarre as it sounds, but I feel like we all could relate to being a giant disgusting bug laying all day at some points of our lives, or maybe it is just me and Kafka. Nevertheless this book will either make no sense to you or you will ab...

  “Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, to absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.” It took me a week to finish reading this beautiful novel after it had been laying on my shelf for more than year. Truly a classic. Broke my heart and mended it again. Passionate , raw and unpredictable. The book starts with Jane Eyre giving an account of her childhood and her experience growing up into a woman of education . Her account of childhood circumstances alt...