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For #TitlesandTunes I may not get to this story of “love, death, and rock 'n' roll“ in July (and save it for August's #AuthorAMonth), but I do want to read it soonish. Who doesn't love an Orfeo retelling?

Too many #sexdrugsandrockandroll songs to choose from, but “Rock and Roll Lifestyle“ by Cake has been stuck in my head for several days now. You're welcome?

@Cinfhen, @BarbaraBB

I will be posting one book a day from my extensive collection of books. No explanation of why I own this book. I have so many books! Play along. #tbrpile. day #19

A masterpiece of story telling!

“A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.”

#QuotsyJuly19 | 26: #Flash

📷: Made with Typorama

Sunshine and goooood company!!!

#worldbookday our little universe!!

I am halfway through the book and the last 30-35 pages were filled with sad moments, and one thing that makes it even more disheartening is the beautiful writing. You could almost feel the pain, sense of loss and loneliness of the characters.

I like that the central characters have such unique names- Ormus Cama, Vina Apsara, Umeed Merchant

BTW Umeed means hope in English

Nothing to add here, these are beautiful lines!!!

"the best in our nature is drowning in the worst"
It takes a beat to understand it. This book is going to take a long time to finish, but it is really good!!!

"In spite of all the evidence that life is discontinous, a valley of rift, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things,in causation & meaning,But we live on a broken mirror,and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day"

Have only read Salman Rushdie once a long time ago, so far first 50 pages have been really beautiful & full of insight, loved these lines, will post more as I read more

Went a little stir crazy at the fair, had what you call a #bookhaul ( never new that this was a thing) and love the complimentary stickers!!!

@DivaDiane this book was amazing! #2x2giveaway

When the sun hits my shelves my books with metallic covers #shine. #tuneintonovember

I have many more covers with gold on my shelves than with silver so I chose one of each for #goldandsilver #fallintobooks

1. Discuss with the husband traveling somewhere to see U2 ✅
2. Listen to some U2 to convince him ✅
3. Play The Ground Beneath Her Feet ✅
4. Recall that this was on a movie soundtrack ✅
5. Google it to remember which movie ✅
6. Discover that Salman Rushdie is credited with lyrics ✅
7. Further discover that the song is lifted from a Rushdie book by the same name ✅
8. Learn something new everyday ✅

Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.

From anxiety comes order 😜🤓 Wish I had more gold books.

The more I see of the West, he says, the more I realize that the best things in life come from the East.

In both Rushdie novels I've read, there has been this tension between the inside and the outside.

Rushdie is never an easy read, but he'll throw dumb laughs in once in a while.

Another successful used bookstore trip! Was not expecting to find so many good books - spent a bit too much but oh well! :)

Their curled bodies are a pair of question marks at the end of the puzzling sentence of the day

My first Rushdie, blew my mind -- a whole new way of thinking and speaking, relating, writing and storytelling -- kind of like my first Tom Robbins, but on crack.

My heart broke open and history fell in.