pickA long look at the mixture of cultural elements in lawyer‘s family in some unspecified village outside Dehli. And then a depressing parallel in Massachusetts. The 1st hundred pages are vibrant and dynamic and I truly loved reading them. The fun fades and purpose is curious. But I enjoyed the book overall.
And the random #feastmode giveaway winner is the lovely @Cinfhen 🎉🎉🎉
I‘ll be ordering a book from your Litsy TBR today from Book Depository!
Thank you all for reading with me! You made what would have a been a crummy weekend positively delightful. ❤️
Gonna get into #feastmode now. My reading goal is modest and realistic- I want to finish 3 books. @Hestapleton
pickBeautifully subtle and well observed novel, but very difficult to read at times. Two women, one in India and one in America, who never meet and probably never know each other exist, lead stifled lives in very different ways. Melanie was wonderfully written but Uma was the one that really got me - everything that happened to her felt like a punch in the gut to me, she was so real and I wanted so much for her that she deserved and didn‘t get.
Still navigating my reading slump. I think I‘ve read the least in the last month that I have in about three years?? Since I moved flat the time to read just doesn‘t seem to exist. Maybe it‘s cause I don‘t have a long train commute anymore to read on, and there‘s more housework than I‘ve had to do before, but it‘s odd for me only being able to manage a few pages a day. Does anyone have any tips about surviving slumps?
pickExcellent writing but difficult to read, nothing graphic, just small scenes of misogyny and lack of autonomy.
In 2 parts, the first in India from Uma's POV the unmarried oldest sister, epileptic and myopic with both issues disregarded by her parents, to whom she is treated little more than a servant subject to their constant demands. 2nd part set in America from the POV of Arun, the long for son, whose every move is planned by those same parents.
#30JuneBooks @howjessreads
My #bookstack of reading for the weekend 😀!
pick#ReadingResolutions Day 26: Iphigene says this in her review: #Fast(ing) and feasting are in opposite ends of the same spectrum. They are extremes and while they are seemingly different they both reflect the extremes of life. In the midst of physical feasting, a sense of limitation of self—a sense of fasting, a hunger as Arun observes, that is within the soul prevails. - Full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-18w
#QuotsyJuly18 #travel
I'm not sure whether this quote is in an Anita Dessie book or just something she said but it's a favorite.💙 As is Kamakura, Japan and the Great Buddha or Daibutsu.
Indian American/Canadian authors aside, I realised I have not read any #IndianAuthor , particularly female Indian authors. TBR.
#readingwomenmonth
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