My reading list was in reverse. Having read Mother Mary comes to me, God of small things I think it's appropriate for me to pick up the doctor and the saint. Her prose moves between historical analysis and lyrical outrage.
This was my first time and I clearly went crazy with the condiments 😭😭
I finished Alias Grace a few days ago and I still can’t decide whether Grace Marks is innocent, manipulative, traumatized, brilliant, or simply surviving in the only ways available to a poor woman in the 19th century. I think this is one of those rare novels where ambiguity is not a flaw but the entire emotional architecture of the story. Also, the quiet horror of domestic life in this novel stayed with me more than the actual crime.
The guy I am talking to has made it clear that he is emotionally unavailable and while I am not too surprised because it's has been a curse I have been carrying unwillingly with me since the longest time I am not sure how do I take it. DISCLAIMER - Also, I am not in love with him but I do like talking him.
He said, I am someone from whom you shouldn't have any expectations and think of me as Woodrow F Call from the book Lonesome dove
Is it actually that bad as it sounds ? What compels a man to say "you shouldn't keep any expectations from me" ?
Arundhati Roy writes like she’s incapable of looking away from suffering, but equally incapable of surrendering to cynicism. Every time I read her work especially during Mother Mary comes to me, I can swear I feel like i have known this woman. It’s one of those books that leaves you emotionally disoriented afterward. Not because it wants to shock you, but because it forces you to sit with people history usually edits out of the narrative.
Currently doing my night shift and it's just me in the dim ward lights, and I’ve started Notes from Underground. There’s something unsettlingly honest about it, like listening to thoughts people usually keep buried.
It is about a lonely and bitter man who lives cut off from society and spends most of his time overthinking his life. He talks about his thoughts, regrets, and strange choices, showing how people don’t always act logically and can even hurt themselves because of pride, anger, or the need to feel in control.