A Room of One's Own

Last day I had to read and understand that the indirect tax laws in India. It was purely for academic reasons and i read it. I wouldn't recommend tax laws as a book that everyone should read - it's good to be aware of. But not to the granularity in which i am required to know. 

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A room of one's own is such a book. It is clearly not my cup of coffee, I understood midway. It's academic and raw. Literature is not of my great interest, just like tax laws may not be others'

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Just 120 pages, it was boring. I am sleep reading, admitted to my mother. Considered to be a great book on feminism, some truths were interesting. Especially to imagine the lives of women who lived before 400 years or more. Or even 100 or more years ago for that matter. Patriarchy, child marriage, bearing dozens of children, lack of education and no financial independence whatsoever... That life is unimaginable for an urbanite like me who lives in 21st century. But i am still a minority. There are still so many women who are living just like those women who lived 400 years before. Without a room of one's own to unleash the creative frontier... Without "permission" from the men in the house to obtain higher education or go for employment.. with suppressed dreams... such a thought was disturbing. As the author had hope for a better future, i hope so too. She remarked, "in 100 years". I second her too though the book is already close to 100 years...

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I liked the idea of Shakespeare's sister... And this interesting perspective that stated that women are men's mirror where they appear 200 times bigger! And that financial independence and a room of one's own is the only means to creativity... 

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I give it a ⭐⭐⭐/5 

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I liked what was written. Quite informative. Thought provoking. But such books are not my preference. I am ok to read tax and other laws!