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Graywacke
Fasting, Feasting | Anita Desai
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A long look at the mixture of cultural elements in lawyer‘s family in some unspecified village outside Dehli. And then a depressing parallel in Massachusetts. The 1st hundred pages are vibrant and dynamic and I truly loved reading them. The fun fades and purpose is curious. But I enjoyed the book overall.

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Graywacke
Fasting, Feasting | Anita Desai
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My next book. I started this morning

Tamra Sounds like a good read - stacked! 1mo
Graywacke @Tamra 1st 50 pages have been thoroughly entertaining. The book has life. 1mo
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rwmg
The Home and the World | Rabindranath Tagore
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When Bimila is encouraged by her husband Nikhil to exercise more freedom than is usual for a woman of her status in Bengal in the first decade of the 20th century, she comes under the influence of Nikhil's friend Sandip, a charismatic radical nationalist.

Although I found it a bit heavy-going at times, especially in the more rhetorical passages, I kept reading, fascinated to see how events would play out.

dabbe Your pick is on the spreadsheet! 🤩 5mo
Cuilin Sounds like a really great read. ✅🎉 5mo
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rwmg
The Home and the World | Rabindranath Tagore
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dabbe Holy guacamole, Batman! 😱 5mo
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rwmg
The Home and the World | Rabindranath Tagore
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Abailliekaras
Pyre | Perumal Murugan
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Mehso-so

A dark novel about two newlyweds who are spurned by the rural villagers because of the caste difference. Very disturbing as a portrayal of the caste system discrimination, narrow-mindedness & violence. The city which welcomes all is a haven by contrast. But I also found the marriage controlling (he ignores her plea to go home). The effect was a horrifying book told in a fairytale style with villains, a complicit groom & a damsel in distress.

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Sapphire
Fire on the Mountain | Anita Desai
Mehso-so

This one is not my favorite of “Tookies short perfect novels” that I have read so far, but I do see why it‘s on the list. The end did quite literally take my breath away.

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Sapphire
Fire on the Mountain | Anita Desai
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Weekend reading is to make progress on working my way through the character Tookie‘s “short perfect novels” list in Erdrich‘s The Sentence. This will be #8 of 12.

Soubhiville Oh cool! I made a reading list from her recs, but I don‘t know if I‘ve gone back to follow up on any of them. 🙂📚 11mo
Sapphire @Soubhiville I made it a personal challenge on StoryGraph so I wouldn‘t forget! It‘s taking awhile. This one and the Turgev were a bit harder to find. The only one I haven‘t really embraced (it‘s hard to say like they are all beautifully written but all very dark) is Mrs Dalloway, but I will go back for that one. I am also using most of these for #192025 challenge as well 11mo
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starlight97
Gun Island | Amitav Ghosh
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Mehso-so

This book just didn't really take me with it, it was kinda meh.

Jari-chan Love that picture ❤️😸 12mo
starlight97 @Jari-chan thanks 😁💖 12mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 12mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfection 🐾🫶🏻 12mo
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