Chetna

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Chetna.

http://www.chetnasamant.wordpress.com
https://www.goodreads.com/chetnasamant

Shy Creatures
Chetna is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The Song of Achilles
Chetna is currently reading
by Madeline Miller (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The Names
Chetna is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Book cover for I've never been (Un)happier
There is a cultural reverence for fame and celebrity that has insidiously convinced us all that we’re not enough the way we are, and when the person in the bedroom next to yours is someone who’s
Loading...
Marcela Serrano
“He had a conventional notion of culture. He thought that going to the theater or ballet and keeping up-to-date with the movie listings made you cultured. I, on the other hand, learned to believe in the depth of experience: returning ten times to the art gallery near my house to look at that Kandinsky again because I identified with its shapes, on a deep level, in my soul. I didn’t care at all whether it was fashionable and I didn’t attend the concerts my father timidly suggested. For me music worked better in the solitude of my room than it did live.”
Marcela Serrano, Ten Women

Bae Suah
“Being poor or being lonely could be either fortunate or unfortunate, but the truth is that the distinction was meaningless. Whether we were fortunate or not, we were still different, and that’s all there was to it.”
Bae Suah, Nowhere to Be Found

Elena Ferrante
“Stefano seemed to seek in her the most palpable symbol of the future of wealth and power that he intended; and she seemed to use the seal that he was placing on her to make herself, her brother, her parents, her other relatives safe from all that she had confusedly confronted and challenges since she was a child.”
Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

Elena Ferrante
“Physical tiredness is a magnifying glass.”
Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter

Annika Norlin
“And thus fell the verdict, light as spring rain, regarding Låke's future, it fell over the dining table one night in February.”
Annika Norlin

year in books
Nandaki...
3,533 books | 2,573 friends

Abhishek
520 books | 200 friends

Ashutos...
1,504 books | 225 friends

Shiny
608 books | 55 friends

Ruma Dak
922 books | 75 friends

Kushal
514 books | 397 friends

mayuri
1,128 books | 233 friends

K
K
945 books | 117 friends

More friends…

Favorite Genres



Polls voted on by Chetna

Lists liked by Chetna