Starting my weekend
Starting my weekend
June already, I can't believe it. I think I am tracking well on my twin goals of 52 books read for the year and completion of #readharder2017. But May was a really odd and funky reading month. "This Divided Island" was the standout. I was disappointed to spend so long on books I didn't enjoy, however I continue to be impressed by American Gods the TV series ?. Hoping June shapes up better.
#Mayreads
These are books about the #war in Sri Lanka. The blue ones are nonfiction, & the other two are novels. My family is Sri Lankan Tamil & were originally from Jaffna; my grandparents moved to Malaysia. Books about the war hits close to home. The only one I've read is Anil's Ghost, an elegiac, slow-burn of a book. Ondaatje's prose is exquisite. Need to be in the right frame of mind to get around to reading the others. #maybookflowers @RealLifeReading
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This is going to be a hard book to get out of my mind. This book is an excellent piece of investigative journalism and I would happily press it into your hands regardless of your level of interest in the Sri Lankan civil war. It is about humanity and the things we are capable of doing to each other and how we justify some of those things to ourselves.
Book about war for #readharder2017
My #recentnonfictionread was Samanth Subramanian's take on the Sri Lankan Civil War through the eyes of the locals, the survivors. It reveals the emotional girth that news reports failed to transmit. A read that will leave you bruised, battered and spent. And rightfully so. But thankful that here is someone recording this version of events. #Marchintoreading