QOTD: ‘Home Going’ – Yaa Gyasi
How ironic is that staying ‘free’ always comes with a price. Someone somewhere in this world must be going through unimaginable fighting for freedom
QOTD: ‘Bestiary’ by K-Ming Chang
Have you read a story that you thought was weird and funny? ‘Bestiary’ was such an odd literary experience to read.
QOTD: ‘In The Dream House’ – Carmen Maria Machado
Healing takes time. If the wound cuts deep it would take longer to heal. However, we cannot weigh the intensity of a mental wound like a physical one.
QOTD: ‘Animal Farm’ – George Orwell
George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ is about a bunch of animals on a farm who overthrows human authority to gain control to establish an equal government within the farm.
QOTD: ‘The Bell Jar’ – Sylvia Plath
We all have had this thought at some point in our lives. Why do we even bother to do something, to live in a certain way, or even to try out something new?
QOTD: ‘The Tradition’ – Jericho Brown
It’s not quite easy to understand poetry as a whole but I always believe there is no set meaning for a poem
QOTD: ‘The Vegetarian’ – Han Kang
We say one must dream big. Sometimes the dreams we have can feel surreal to a point we cannot decide what is real anymore.
QOTD: ‘Sweet Bean Paste’ – Durian Sukegawa
Happy Sunday! Just a reminder from Durian Sukegawa, to take it slow today. Appreciate everything around you.
QOTD: ‘Midnight Library’ – Matt Haig
If you are told that you have a choice between life and death, there is a library with unlimited shelves of books: each book represents a possible version of your lifethat you could have lived differently. Would you accept the chance to see how all your regrets could have been avoided? Nora Seed did. She winds up in limbo on the day she chooses to die, where she can explore how her alternative lives would have unfolded.