The diary on the fifth floor, Raisha Lalwani

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The diary on the fifth floor

My harshest critique would include that you are, perhaps overfond of broken sentences, but as they say, it all kinds to make the world go round. 

It can be very tiring to live your life in such detail. 

Your writing style, is both effortlessly easy to read and capable of being tremendously poignant. 

To you the temp driver, I make one promise. I will with everyday, about something that happened in the city. You will be my conscience, and the conscience of whoever takes your story to heart. 

Put all your diary entries together, let the world read a little bit about themselves. 

Above are some of the lines from the book. While they well summarise the book and it’s review, I as a reader have mixed feelings about it. It’s definitely sincere and honest to the core, however it doesn’t have a story but is actually a series of diary entries strung together to create a book. We could call them short stories which show the world’s dirty and dark side but the writing style is simple and so generic that they become documentation of random experiences of a woman who feels deeply and needs to write to deal with her emotions. And that is what is. 

I appreciate the sharing of various events but also judging it with a bleak mindset from her bystander mindset, always justifying how it’s wrong and she can’t do much about the cruel world. She feels deeply and takes the burden but does not for once participates to change it, which for me is the storytellers burden but also guilt. 

Empathy is the key feeling in the book and 

If you want to read it, just hope the world heals and becomes a better place.