Fasting, Feasting

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. ❤️

Cinfhen What??!?! That‘s awesome!!!! Thank you SO MUCH!!!! I better go quickly clean up that TBR of mine. It‘s a mess xxxx you‘ve made my day and possibly the rest of 2020 brighter 😘😘 4y

Hestapleton @cinfhen you are so welcome! I have no idea how long it will take to ship to you so hopefully you get it before the year is out! If there is a different TBR you would prefer me to use, just let me know. :) 4y

Cinfhen I‘m joking....whatever u send me will be joyfully accepted🧡🧡🧡I‘m so excited 🥳🥳🥳 I love this place (edited) 4y

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Chrissyreadit Congratulations @Cinfhen 🙌🎉🥳 4y

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Simona @Cinfhen congratulations 🍾🥂😘 4y

StayCurious Yay! Congrats! 4y

Allylu @Cinfhen Congratulations! @Hestapleton Thanks for hosting this. It really helped me get the move on. 4y

Cinfhen Thanks @Allylu 😁This win has really made my day!!! And seeing all the lovely congratulatory posts is uplifting 4y

Megabooks Congratulations @Cinfhen !! 😘 4y

Cathythoughts Nice one 🥳 congratulations Cindy 4y

Hestapleton @Cinfhen just sent you an email with a question about your address! 4y

Cinfhen I‘ve responded!!! Thank you xx 4y

Cinfhen And thanks for cheering me on @Megabooks @Cathythoughts 💚💚 4y

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starrdom

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Gonna get into #feastmode now. My reading goal is modest and realistic- I want to finish 3 books. @Hestapleton

Hestapleton An excellent goal! 4y

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singhaniashares

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Reading a fiction after a long long time!

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Emilymdxn

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Beautifully 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.

Nute Nice review! 5y

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Emilymdxn

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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?

Amiable Maybe re-read a favorite book that you love? I know what you mean about how not having a commute impacts your reading time. I have a 2-hour round-trip commute on the train to work every day —that‘s when I do the bulk on my reading. (edited) 5y

cathipink Reading slumps are tough. I agree - I try to pick something that I know I'll love or a 'treat' book, even if it means a reread. Scheduling time to read helps too - setting an alarm if I'm worried about getting derailed or making an event (going to a coffee shop or park to read). I'm sure you'll find your new groove soon 💗 5y

cathipink Would you be open to audiobooks at all? There are only certain types of books I'll read on audio (generally lighter, also memoir and some mystery), but it is a way to get those juices flowing. 5y

JenniferP I also revisit a favorite when I hit a reading slump. Jane Austen always works for me! 5y

Ruthiella I second/third the tip to reread a favorite. It helps take the pressure off. 5y

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mreads

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Excellent 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.

mreads #booked2019 12.Food or Beverage @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage
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Cinfhen Not familiar with this book. Thanks for sharing 5y

BarbaraTheBibliophage Good review, and unique choice for this prompt. 👊🏻 5y

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mreads

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#30JuneBooks @howjessreads

My #bookstack of reading for the weekend 😀!

emz711 I'm so jealous that you cad get that all done in a weekend 5y

mreads @emz711 Never said I'd finish 😁 but I'll try. 5y

Nute Yay, Jane Gardam!💕 5y

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GatheringBooks

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#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

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Tanisha_A This is on my TBR! 😀 6y

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DebinHawaii

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#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.

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SledgeReader My favorite Christmas card pictures of my babies were taken at Daibutsu. Thanks for the memory of an absolutely wonderful day! 6y

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