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Kitty parties? For a second there I thought these were parties for kittens but no - an internet search set me straight 😂

🥺 Wpw! So far this is really good.

A bombing in a market kills a couple‘s two sons and the book explores the impact this bombing has on the family, a friend of the boys who survives, and the terrorists involved. Complex look at how people are changed in unexpected ways, the many faces of injustice, and terror. #setinsouthasia #booked2020

Starting this one for my #panasianauthor pick for #booked2020. Set up by my 8 year old who is cooking dinner and treating me tonight to wine, cheese, and Mexican food. 😍

1. Flew by! Managed to keep it a calm month and enjoyed each day, for the most part.
2. How to Be Miserable: 40 strategies you already use.
3. The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
#friyayintro

A serious novel, but I enjoyed it

#litsylove #winterswap #grateful #coffeeandbooks #coffeesndcats #bookmarks
Thank you so much for such personalized gifts! Cat mug & book@ark, coffee socks, ( cannot wait to wear them to work!) 2 books From my TBR, my favorite breakfast, oatmeal, & a beautiful personalized card! I had so much fun opening everything! Many thanks @Jee_HookedOnBookz

A bomb goes off in a Delhi market. We the follow multiple people: parents of the dead, and injured boy, the bomber. I just love this premise. But I found the book to be told at such a remove that I never became invested in the story or characters. I see other Littens had the same issues. To be honest, I‘m disappointed. #botm

#7covers7days #covercrush

7 Favorite Covers. 7 Days. No Explanations.

Day 3

Another batch from last week's #booksale , grouped by badges. Only one is a decal; try to guess which one.

I left work early due to a respiratory infection so I pretty much slammed through this book in one setting this afternoon. The book follows two families who are the victims of a market car bombing. I‘m not sure if I ever felt sympathy for any of the characters but it was fascinating to watch how an event forever changed their lives. Absolutely worth a read. It‘s fairly short too.

Okay this time I think I might actually be getting out of my reading slump! I've started so many books and not finished any of them for months now, but I just picked this one up off my shelf the other day and it's going well so far! Lovely writing and engrossing points of view. I hope I finish this one! 🤞#readingslump #slump #botm #bookofthemonth

Set mostly in Delhi, this novel follows the stories of families and young men affected by a bomb going into of in a market—both the victims and the perpetrators.

Oh dear. Thought I‘d finish the last chapters before book club at a nearby brewery. When I ordered a taste flight I expected somewhat smaller tastes. Let‘s hope I don‘t bombed. :-\

So glad they let me through airport security with this explosive book! LOL.

And now for something completely different. This month‘s book club read.

And now for something completely different. This month‘s book club read.

I started reading this sometime last year but somehow never finished it. So I‘ve picked it up again and while it is not the easiest book to read (it has to do with a bombing in a marketplace that devastates a family), it is moving and thoughtful

@VikingBooks

Cranberries #Zombie is about a '93 IRA bombing. Mahajan's 2016 novel follows the devastation & repercussions of a '96 bombing in a New Delhi marketplace. I thought it was a remarkable book & Mahajan's depiction of personal lives being shaped & determined by political conflict will appeal to lovers of Kamila Shamsie's "Home Fire."
#OctoberXFiles
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I‘m belated at winding up my #3Kgiveaway but I will get to all three of the books today, I promise!

The first winner for The Association of Small Bombs is @Whimsical.Curiosity - congratulations! Please email your name and postal address to ladybee at gmail!

I would love to win the Association of Small Bombs 😊

#3KGiveaway @REPollock

#3KGIVEAWAY @REPollock Congratulations & thankyou. I would be interested in The Association of Small Bombs ! 🙏🏻🤞🏻

✨ @REPollock is also hosting a generous #giveaway for reaching 3k! Head over to her page to enter and congratulate her! So many Littens are reaching amazing goals!
✨ Congratulations again and thank you for this giveaway!🎉🎈🎉
#3KGIVEAWAY
Tagged book is the one that drew me in! Intriguing cover! 💜📚

#3kgiveaway @REPollock Sweet giveaway!

I wondered why only a couple people had entered my #3Kgiveaway & then realized I had a typo on the end date! It closes AUGUST 19th, not July! Whoops. 🤗

So to celebrate my Litfluence of 3000, I‘m giving away 3 great books! Which one do you want?

Tag me @REPollock & #3Kgiveaway between now and midnight EST on August 19, 2018! Open internationally!

#giveaway @LitsyHappenings #LitsyHappenings #giveawayalert #bookgiveaway @LitsySwaps

My pick for the #3KGIVEAWAY is definitely #associationofsmallbombs !! 📚 Thanks @REPollock 😘😁❤️

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“The best way to describe what he felt would be to say that first he was blind, then he could see everything. This is what it felt like to be a bomb. You were coiled up, majestic with blackness, unaware that the universe outside you existed, and then a wire snapped and ripped open your eyelids all the way around and you had a vision of the world that was 360 degrees, and everything in your purview was doomed by seeing.”
#bookcover#bookstore#litfic

Now they‘re gone, forever, no matter how long I stay here like faithful Hachiko, from their English reader. And yet I have an urge to stay here forever. An urge to punish myself by looking, by scouring every inch of tarred road and glittering gutter and veined dust-sprinkled leaf, in every season, at all times, for my boys....

I found the story and the characters compelling, but really didn‘t care for how the book was structured. The ending dragged and was a bit recitative, too. Still, lots to think about here, in terms of understanding the humans who are also terrorists.

Too prescient.

I think I‘m finally ready to give this a try.

That‘s what this book was, a bomb! Not sure what it was trying to say, but it meandered to places unknown and who cares.

He was thinking instead of the shattering, deafening moment the bomb exploded, the pain he‘d felt in his extremities, the way Tushar and Nakul had snapped into sleep, going from in to off. What could he have done!

#bookmail is the best! This month‘s pick from the #Alignist book club! ❤️

A bit confusing - I couldn‘t always keep everything straight but it was a pretty compelling story.

💣💣💣💣 This is not my usual fare but it was a really interesting read. It's very sad how people can get so caught up in an ideology that they don't care about the lives of the people around them.

Kindle deal 🎉 I had to finally give in and get this 😆

This left me a little disappointed. The idea of writing about a smaller scale terrorist attack from the points of view of families of those killed, survivors, activists, and terrorists themselves was a great one. The book fell short for me in the characterizations. I don't need to like the characters, but I need to know them well enough to understand them, otherwise, their actions often seem arbitrary and their motivations are muddled.

What is your opinion on this one? Worth reading?

This was an intense read told from varying perspectives, those of the perpetrators and victims of terror attacks. It examines the far reaching and long lasting effects of such violence as well as the differences in small scale versus large scale acts of terrorism. By giving insight into these characters‘ lives, it brought these huge issues down to a more personal level which was very thought provoking.

Should I really be starting a new book right now when I'm in the middle of several library ebooks? Not really. But I was sitting by my bookshelves, the kids were looking at their books, and I just decided to pull this one off its shelf and start reading it and the first chapter was so captivating I just had to continue.

A thought-provoking novel about all the effects a terrorist bombing has on a group of people - especially the less obvious reactions to victims and families years after the initial attacks. I did this on audio which I think was a good idea for this book.

Unfortunately I struggled to get through this book. I was very interested in the idea of this story, but the way it was executed couldn‘t keep my attention. #LitsyAtoZ

I‘ve been trying to get into this book all week, and for some reason I can‘t! It‘s very well written; maybe it‘s just too sad for me at the moment..hmm. Ima keep trying! 😢 #LitsyAtoZ #tbrpile

My last book of 2017 was just eh. I didn‘t connect with the story at all. It felt like it dragged on and while it seems like an emotional topic- I didn‘t get that at all from the writing.

This book was intense, dark and beautiful. I️ picked it for a book club and I️‘m somewhat sorry I choose it because it‘s so intense and has some triggers. But, the writing is absolutely exquisite and brings up so many complex feelings and meanings about family, relationships, class, terrorism and how people act as a group or individuals and why. I highly highly recommend.

I did this on audio, I 💚 the narrator who read this. It was layered story of different people in India connected by the effects of bombings in New Delhi. There are issues of class, religion, terrorism, and racism revealed in this fictional story. It is a tough read, but well written and honest. No one wins in this novel. What I really 💚 beyond the interconnectedness is seeing how terrorism affects other countries besides the US. Read this book!

A bomb explodes in Delhi, killing two boys instantly and taking its time -- decades -- impacting the survivors. Mahajan explores the common question after such senseless attacks: What makes someone do such a thing? In the book's most unsettling scene, a formerly peaceful activist believes he has a bomb implanted in his chest. What a scary idea: that we are all ticking, waiting to explode, either in joy and awakening or violence and madness.

My goodness this is so difficult to read 😢

I can tell it's going to be an important story but it's hurting my heart.