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Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri (1999)
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Premise: A Pulitzer-Prize-winning collection of stories about South Asian lives, particularly in the diaspora in the United States.

Review: A quarter-century after its publication, not only does this hold up, but it actually feels fresh and interesting — a lot fresher than her more recent work, which hasn‘t worked for me

Bookish Pair: Peacocks of Instagram, by Deepa Rajagopalan (2024)

MaGoose Agreed. I greatly enjoyed this book more than her other work. I've already read this book twice and will probably buy and read it again. now

Mattsbookaday @MaGoose Yeah the person who recommended it to me lists it as his favourite all time book that he‘s re-read three times and I can understand why! now

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ChaoticMissAdventures

Unexpected Stories | Octavia E. Butler

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A short listen from the queen of Futurism.
It was a bit unbalanced the first story being more than twice as long and in depth then the second. But this is a fantastic book for someone who needs an introduction to OEB both stories are unrelated but have the same themes and ideas as her series.

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Doppoetry

Edogawa Rampo: The Early Cases of Akechi Kogoro | Rampo Edogawa

Getting back to this

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Bookwormjillk

Eight Very Bad Nights: A Collection of Hanukkah Noir | Tod Goldberg

🎶Tumble outta bed and I stumble to the kitchen
Pour myself a cup of ambition🎶

Grateful for a bit of reading time before the grind begins!

TheKidUpstairs LOVE your mug! 2d

intothehallofbooks Early morning reading is my favorite!!! 2d

lil1inblue 😍🤩🥰 2d

LaraReads What a beautiful photo! 2d

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JenlovesJT47

Vacationland | Sarah Stonich

Christmas is over,
the new year is underway —
time for a vacation.

#haikuhive #haikuaday #monalisa

Is it just me or is anybody else a little burnt out right now? I‘ve got the January blues. 😌

AmyG Omg…I woke up this morning in the worst mood. 3d

JenlovesJT47 @AmyG hope your day gets better! That was my yesterday 🫂♥️♥️♥️ 3d

AnnCrystal 🐝💝🫂💝🐝. 3d

DebinHawaii Ugh! Monday, January, full work week! I can relate! 😩 2d

dabbe My whole January mood has been 🤬🤬🤬. You're not alone, m'dear, and this haiku is much needed. 🩶🤍🩶 2d

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bibliothecarivs

Merlin Dreams | Peter Dickinson

Random book from our personal library.

Bookwomble This book ticks my boxes! ✅😄 I've got the tagged book by this author, which is one of my favourites 🐉

The Flight of Dragons

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AnishaInkspill

The White Road and Other Stories | Tania Hershman

#LELH #LitsyEventsLittleHelper @LitsyEvents #3BookChallenge2026 @AnishaInkspill #26Shorts2026

Here's the second of the three book challenges, feel free to join, this time short stories and also on Storygraph https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/ea4660bf-b3a1-43b3-84be-a7e4f64....

Short stories, every year I mean to read more but I read a few and that's it, this year I wanted to do it differently and put this together.

dabbe I put this as Challenge 2 next to your main title of #3BookChallenge2026. Hope that's okay. 🩶🤍🩶 2d

AnishaInkspill @dabbe oh, yeah, that's fine, thanks 💚🌞 2d

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GatheringBooks

Sabrina and Corina: Stories | Kali Fajardo-Anstine

#Celebrate Day 5: #StickerOnCvr #StickerOnCover on this book for being a National Book Award finalist. I suspect this one is perfect for our #BIPOCIntlAuthorArtist2026 reading theme.