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April 24th #DynamicDs Dark: If I had Netflix, I would watch this. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

1. A few bucks.

2. Tagged. Yes most of his characters.

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

As I get older I find I‘ve been wandering further from new or popular fiction and diving deep into translations and older literature as so much is relevant to our current age or forces me to look at the world through a new lens. This book, a novella combined with a collection of short stories, looks at the history and continued violence in a small mountain community in Turkey and how easy it is to be overlooked by the rest of the country.

I‘m kicking myself because i had almost finished this book and then the library insisted i bring it back 😂 But it was probably the best collection of short stories I‘ve ever read! That is - if you like authors like Barbara Pym, Anita Brookner, maybe Penelope Lively. These are frequently bittersweet stories where the main character is a woman, often an older woman, and they focus on love and grief and ageing and mistakes and chances lost and ⬇️

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Off to Hilo for the second time this week. 😵‍💫 There will be much caffeine involved…

#Two4Tuesday

1️⃣ Hah! Close—I did them this weekend because procrastination is my name. 🤦🏻‍♀️

2️⃣ Folklore 🌺

If you want to join in, consider yourself tagged. 🤗

2.5/5 - soft so-so

While I enjoyed some stories, too many left me really not interested. I disliked the lack of world building, and the orality of his writing. My favorites were Victory Lap, The Semplica girls diaries, and Escape from Spiderhead.

Ms. Lahiri‘s stories center on the experiences of Indian-American immigrants, divided between West Bengal and New England, with a common theme of yearning, out of homesickness amidst “foreignness,” or for an object of which the characters are often not entirely sure of. The last story, “The Third and Final Continent” is a favorite: inspired by the author‘s own father and his journeys to strange lands, grappling with a recent arranged marriage.

This book was a combination of 9 short stories. I was hooked from the very first one 🥹 Although some were definitely slower and others I wish had an extra 20 pages 🤣 it was a easy to follow and enjoy the stories as you go ❤️