I read Great Expectations fresh after a breakup. It felt like Dickens was speaking directly to me. The twisted mess of hope, regret, and longing I was living through. I became obsessed with Pip the same way he was obsessed…
I first heard about John Green from a friend who said she bawled her eyes out while reading one of his books. Yes, you guessed it right. It’s THAT book I am talking about. So I ordered a copy, started…
I usually don’t read time travel novels for the science. I read them for the silence, the moment when a character realizes they are somewhere they should not be. It’s not the machinery or the mathematics that hold my attention.…
Me Before You is one of the books that came into my life when I needed it the most. It made me chuckle and cry at the same time while teaching that love isn’t always about holding on. It is…
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.” Camus’ words struck me years after my parents had died, one of a heart attack and the other of cancer, leaving me not only orphaned but homeless, since…
I breathe literature and I have gone through extreme lengths to honor it. Words are not just ink on paper. They are air, rhythm, and pulse, pulling me up when I was down, keeping me afloat when the tides tried…
I stumbled onto Camus by accident, opening The Stranger and being seized at once by its first line: “Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know.” It felt brutally cold, yet strangely liberating. I read on, and soon after…
The best poets of the 21st century are those whose voices outlast the rush. These famous writers of the 21st century give language its pulse again, showing that a poem is not just part of the day, but the place…
There are families that make space for you, and families where you always feel too much. You answer the calls, you stay composed, but your body never quite stops bracing. When love becomes conditional and every word feels like a…
A friend of mine recently opened up to me and shared that she was asexual and that’s when it dawned on me that I knew very little about what asexuality is. I knew all about other sexual orientations but not…