Allow Ann to Babble, Please!

  Writer's block, in my own personal experience, is something that eats away at your brain. You sit down in front of your laptop or your book and you want to write- you really really want to write- but your imagination fails you and no words come out. Then, you eventually have to shut the laptop or the book and keep it aside and I think that's one of the worst feelings in the world for a writer. As someone who has always penned down her thoughts and feelings, not being able to write is like a curse to me. If I do not write, I cannot express myself in the way I want to express myself, and that is truly something that disturbs me to my very core. When I was in high school, I had started on a fanfiction with a really intricate and complex plot with even more complicated sub-plots (and I do not know how I came up with all that but I just did). In the beginning, I was so excited about it and I was making multiple character and plot outlines and writing three to four chapters per day

There is a song called 'Epiphany' by Taylor Swift in her album Folklore. And this poem had inspired me so much that I wrote a poem based on it a long while ago. But I was reminded of it now because I had to study a poem named 'The Diameter of the Bomb' by Yehuda Amichai for my exam today- an anti-war poem that speaks volumes about the sheer destruction and pain it brings. It is then that this particular poem that I wrote was brought to my memory. I'd like to share that very amateur yet profound poem for my blog post today. the battle cries in the back the soldier bleeding to the ground the men around him walk on without his only friend rushing to his side watching the life drain away from those eyes he daily stared all around the bullet sounds the little kid wails somewhere on a lady's chest; tears in his hair the gentle hands that used to be around her now lies cold somewhere far away she clutches tight onto the kid the only part remaining of her muse the sick

  'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini is an emotional masterpiece. It is the story of two women, Mariam and Laila, who try to survive amidst the oppression and violence they face in Afghanistan. Mariam was an illegitimate child living with her abusive mother whose life is even more tragically altered as she is married off to Rasheed, a man thirty years her senior and very much controlling. Years later, Laila, who is a young girl from Kabul is merged into Mariam's life after her own family is torn apart by violence. They start to develop an unlikely bond under the oppressive household of Rasheed. As the years pass by, Afghanistan undergoes vast changes, from the Soviet invasion to the rise of the Taliban regime. The hardships they undergo then are heartbreaking to the readers, but they hold out against it all, portraying the power of resilience and trust. They portray the harsh realities of life as women in Afghanistan but the themes of love, hope and sacrifice hol

  "Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested." The Trial by Franz Kafka reveals the true world we live in, hidden behind all the corruption and facades. It follows the story of Josef K. who is suddenly arrested by unidentified agents one morning without any sort of clarification on the crime that he supposedly committed. Then, he is put through a complex trial facing enigmatic lawyers, judges and other characters who offer little to no clarity to him on the subject. Even though he tries to clear his name, he finds himself deeply entangled in a web of absurd and corrupt bureaucracy. Mr.K represents our desire to deal with problems in a logical way but at the end of the day, we are just pushed into the insanity that is this world. This story is presented as an allegory representing society and its flaws as a whole. Here, we can see man's fight against totalitarianism and a corrupt administration. But upo

  "There is something comforting about the sight of strangers safe at home." The Girl on the Train is a book that teaches you to trust NO ONE. This point is made precise and clear by using three female narrators who share the storytelling of this book. One of them is an alcoholic. Another one is a cheat and another is a liar. Now, who really can you trust here? This book is a gripping psychological thriller which follows the intertwined lives of these three women. Rachel is the alcoholic who takes the same train every single day and becomes obsessed with a seemingly happy couple by the name of Scott and Megan as she observes them from the train window. And this Megan goes missing one day, and Rachel is sucked into this investigation despite her unreliable memory and addiction. Anna is yet another one of the important characters of this story that helps in the revelation of the truth at the end. This book clearly shows how our perceptions of others can be twisted and manipulat

  Folklore is my favourite album from Taylor Swift. And 'This is me trying' is the ninth track of that album. It's one song I hold very close to my heart, so much so that I have written a poem inspired by it. And in today's blog, I'd like to share that poem. there's a lot on my mind slipping through the cracks of my sanity haunted by the idea this wasting away of my wretched reality the soul that is scathing away as the head chains me down to itself those shards of glass of my mind that cut through my bones and my skin yet i wake up each day to the sun wanting to be better by the promise i made to the moon so i try and i try and i try through the empty days and the hollow endless nights i try to live the life that i have and not just exist in an empty abyss of my past in my words my anger used to pound upon them my regret never counts pure and raw ache i have inflicted upon my soul and upon all theirs there's too much weight on my back i can't help but c