Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
#SriLanka
review
vlwelser
The Saint of Bright Doors | Vajra Chandrasekera
post image
Pickpick

This was interesting. And entertaining.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4d
32 likes1 comment
review
BarbaraBB
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens | Shankari Chandran
post image
Pickpick

Set in a fictional Nursing Home in Sydney, this novel follows Sri Lankan immigrants Maya and Zakhir, who transformed the home into a sanctuary where “people will be valued.” Decades later, Maya is a resident, while Zakhir‘s disappearance remains unresolved. The flashbacks to war-torn Sri Lanka do complete the book.

Thanks for sending me this Carolyn🤍

#ReadTheWorld2025 #24 #SriLanka
#fictionaltraveler #someplacehot

julieclair This sounds fascinating! Stacked. 3w
Jeg I loved this book and gave it as a gift to several friends . 3w
BiblioLitten Ah I wish this was in our local library. I suggested it but they said it was not published in Canada. Only Amazon has it. 😑 2w
See All 6 Comments
BarbaraBB @BiblioLitten It‘s hard to get a copy where I live too so I was very glad that an Aussie Litten sent it to me ❤️ 2w
BarbaraBB @Jeg good choice! 2w
CarolynM Glad you enjoyed😘 Still haven‘t got around to it myself, yet. 2w
83 likes5 stack adds6 comments
blurb
Texreader
Brotherless Night: A Novel | V. V. Ganeshananthan
post image

From at erinreadstheworld on Instagram. I‘m going to post each page for those of you not on instagram. This is the sixth (and last) page of 6. For those of you on Instagram, here‘s the link:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DMuilAfyip4/?img_index=1&igsh=MWxyZDVpZTMyd2hseQ==

Links to books above are tagged below in the comments.

See All 11 Comments
ChaoticMissAdventures I loved Brotherless Night,an amazing book. Also loved Cantoras and I have Girl Body of Water, this might be my push to finally read it. 3w
Texreader @ChaoticMissAdventures Id love to hear which ones you read from all these posts and what you thought about them! Thanks!! 😊 3w
ChaoticMissAdventures @Texreader I clicked through! So many good ones. Standouts for me are: Brotherless Night, Cantoras, Swimming In The Dark, Shadow of the Wind (my favorite book), Han Kang, Crooked Plow. I think there were better choices for Ireland and Afghanistan but so happy people are reading the world! 3w
Texreader @ChaoticMissAdventures Awesome!! We clearly have similar tastes in books so I‘m especially checking out the ones you‘ve mentioned. Thank you!! 3w
TheBookHippie Girl is Body of Water I really liked. (edited) 3w
Cuilin @ChaoticMissAdventures I also loved Swimming in the Dark. (edited) 3w
46 likes1 stack add11 comments
review
Kristy_K
Wave | Sonali Deraniyagala
post image
Pickpick

Short but heartbreaking. I can‘t imagine the loss Deraniyagala endured.

#ReadtheWorld2025 #SriLanka

GatheringBooks Awesome! I read this book by V. V. Ganeshananthan last year for a book club, it was pretty good too and quite harrowing. 1mo
Kristy_K @GatheringBooks Just added to my tbr. Thanks! 1mo
54 likes2 comments
review
LisaBam
Noontide Toll: Stories | Romesh Gunesekera
post image
Pickpick

Written from the perspective of a van driver, this books tells the manifold stories of Sri Lanka‘s people: returning exiles, aid workers, entrepreneurs, tourists and many more. The novel beamed me right back to 2012 when I first visited. I could see the places in front of me, smell the smells and remember all the great conversations I had with people about the war, the tsunami, the Chinese and the future. What a perceptive and fantastic read.

review
Itchyfeetreader
Brotherless Night: A Novel | V. V. Ganeshananthan
post image
Pickpick

Other than a slightly rushed ending this was a phenomenal read and I feel a bit silly it‘s been sitting on the shelf for so long. I loved Sashi, a complex min character growing up as her future is radically changed by the beginning of the Sri Lankan civil war as she walks the complex line in an ever changing set of circumstances . A story about family, loyalty, truth I loved this one

TrishB I only read this recently too and thought it was great. 2mo
Suet624 I read this when it came out and I still think of it. There are scenes I‘ll never forget. 2mo
46 likes1 stack add2 comments
review
cant_i'm_booked
Anil's Ghost | Michael Ondaatje
post image
Pickpick

I cannot begin to describe how much I love this book. Both a novel about Anil, a young woman who returns to her birth country of Sri Lanka after years of studying abroad, and a historical document detailing the challenges facing her as a forensic anthropologist as she attempts to unravel truth from the bodies left/scattered from the island‘s years of civil war and forced disappearances.

review
nanuska_153
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida | Shehan Karunatilaka
post image
Pickpick

Maali, a war photographer, gambler and closeted gay wakes up in the afterlife after being murdered. He has seven moons to decide between going into the light or staying in this world with other ghosts who are trying to avenge their deaths. He is not as concerned with who killed him, all he wants is his photographs to see the light. I felt lost during certain parts, I knew nothing about Sri Lanka's history or culture and after reading the book ⬇️

nanuska_153 I still don't really know much about it, but it does sound interesting. There's a small attempt at the beginning to explain what the initials to the different factions involved in the war represent, but not detailed enough to learn what it really means, except that everyone is evil. I really loved the parts that were more centered on the characters, because I knew what was going on. ⬇️ 3mo
nanuska_153 I think I'll re-read it once I get a chace to educate myself, because it's clear that the story is much richer than what I could get from the surface with my limited knowledge 3mo
Graywacke Great book. Glad you enjoyed it! 3mo
36 likes3 comments
review
alecia3dixie
You're Invited | Amanda Jayatissa
post image
Panpan

I think the whole point of this book was for rich people to just be awful people for over 300 pages. I didn't think any of the "twists" were twists because I saw every one of them coming. This book annoyed me so much because absolutely no one was likable, just all bad people because they can because their rich. Gross. 1/5