I recently sent a letter to a terrorist I used to know.
#FirstLine
I recently sent a letter to a terrorist I used to know.
#FirstLine
The first unequivocal pick for me from the #WomensPrize2024 #longlist
Read it and weep.
About the Sri Lankan civil war, but with a focus on family and moral dilemmas. The opening draws you in immediately, but then there is a long, slow build-up. It's worth it. The second half I could barely put the book down.
My favourite so far (but plenty to go).
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4.5 Stars
This had me captivated from the get go, and I was squeezing in reading at every moment I could find.
A very powerful family story. I was alive during the Sri Lankan civil war but am completely ignorant of it until now.
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#womensprizefiction.
My favourite so far from the #womensprize long list. Set in Sri Lanka during the civil war, from the 1980s onwards, it follows 16 year old Sashi as she tries to train to be a doctor against a background of fear and violence.
Powerful and raw, this feels like non-fiction at times. So much so that I looked up whether the author had direct experience of the war and she hadn‘t.
The audio narration was also fantastic.
SLowly making my way through!
I read 3 of 16 last week.
Brotherless Night is by far my favorite of what I have read so far.
I am excited to see what this week holds, staring off with Hangman and then I think Nightbloom, because I am not so excited about that one and would like to get it done (I really enjoyed her first novel, but I think the topic of this one is not going to be for me)
What better time to try the vegan Sri Lankan restaurant in town, then to try it while reading this #womensprize book set in Sri Lanka?
Having a blackened pork stuffed Roti and a Sri Lankan iced coffee.
"I want you to understand: it does not matter if you cannot imagine the future. Still, relentless, it comes."
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Doing some #audiocrafting tonight. This book is a trip!! #huey #catsoflitsy
February book club pick: a multilayered story that follows a complex character in his journey to the afterlife. I don‘t think I‘ve read anything quite like this story and I can tell why it won the booker prize!
I was patiently waiting for the German translation and now finally got around to meet it. And wow, this is heavy. But I'm thankful for this book that taught me about a war I barely knew anything about. The plot itself dragged every now and then, but it's a pick only for the information I got alone. The way Karunatilaka pictures “life“ after death is hilarious. Yes, there is a good humor in this book, even though we read about devastating history.