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Juggling act

kmdbookworm wrote 1 month ago: Sometimes I read more than one book at a time. Maybe not always the best idea, but I’m use to … more →

Tags: Books, Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood, Kiran Desai

iLike10 comments

Ayesha wrote 2 months ago: I would like to read these books… I like these WP themes… … more →

Tags: WordPress, Books, Blog, albeo, Nadeem Aslam, The Wasted Vigil, Themes, A CASE OF EXPLODING MANGOES, Burning Shadows

Culture Shock, in reverse

Griselda Murray Brown wrote 6 months ago: It had been an uncomfortable plane journey. The sleeping Sikhs next to me had been large enough to p … more →

Tags: Britain, Anonymity, arthur's seat, bath, Choice, communal, Edinburgh, First World, Freedom

A Gen-X bangaal and Her Gain of Inheritance

bangalnama wrote 7 months ago: In my very first attempt to write about an author, that too someone who’s been labelled as “The youn … more →

Tags: Bangal, Book Reviews, Literature, Novelist, Writers of South-Asian origin, Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai, Third generation Bangal, Man Booker Prize

The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai 1 comment

Lisa Hill wrote 7 months ago: This is one of the saddest books I’ve read. So many books from post-colonial India are, but th … more →

Tags: Awards and Prizes, Reviews, Booker Prize, Commonwealth Literature, Authors - D, Title - I & J, Source: Personal library, Postmodernism, Kiran Desai

The First Month's Books2 comments

kristyn wrote 10 months ago: January: Keeping House: The Litany of Everyday Life – Margaret Kim Peterson The premise– … more →

Tags: Books, ZZ Packer, Graham Greene, new stories from the south, The Power and the Glory, Kiran Desai, Keeping House, Margaret Kim Peterson

First Lines

katherinejina wrote 10 months ago: Books Bought: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier* David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Gone With The Wind … more →

Tags: Books, Life, Travel, nick hornby, Michael Pollan, Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, Omnivore's Dilemma, Daphne du Maurier

The Simple Pleasures

kristyn wrote 10 months ago: I have a new blog post up at The Other Journal. This morning I took a lovely, leisurely trip to the … more →

Tags: Books, Graham Greene, The Other Journal, tattered cover, Don DeLillo's Underworld, The Power and the Glory, Kiran Desai

The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai

DD wrote 1 year ago: Just started reading this book by Kiran Desai. I’m a quarter of a way into it. Fantastic so fa … more →

Tags: language, Man Booker Prize, Kiran Desai, Life of Pi, Books, Novels, paperback., writer, Author

Aravind Shines at the Booker

kylepetersays wrote 1 year ago: Aravind Adiga’s bestselling novel “The White Tiger” bagged the 2008 Man Booker Prize in a year that … more →

Tags: Latest Happenings, 2008 Man Booker Prize, Amitav Ghosh, Aravind Adiga, Aravind Adiga wins 2008 Man Booker Prize, Aravind Adiga wins Booker, Arundhati Roy, Balram Halwai, Bangalore

The Inheritance of Loss

angel wrote 1 year ago: Eight months ago, I specifically requested my mother (not the biological one, but my Kris Kringle mo … more →

Tags: Books, Kiran Desai

Sunday Salon: July Reading Wrap-Up9 comments

Rebecca @ The Book Lady's Blog wrote 1 year ago: Okay, so we’re already a few days into August, but the end of July was crazy, and there was si … more →

Tags: Memes, Month in review, Andrew Davidson, Annie Barrows, bill bryons, bonk, Book Reviews, Books, Breaking Dawn

The Sunday Salon13 comments

Rebecca @ The Book Lady's Blog wrote 1 year ago: Finally, a Sunday morning with no plans, no obligations, and nothing to do but sleep in, sit around … more →

Tags: Memes, bonk, Book Reviews, Books, Giveaways, Love is a Mix Tape, Mary Roach, Reading, Rob Sheffield

my bed is still unmade

alison wrote 1 year ago: it is a superb day for a blanket and a good book. since school was canceled because of the rare appe … more →

Tags: Books, Kiran Desai, books about india, Reading, Sad Stories

Left Feeling Lost3 comments

snackywombat wrote 1 year ago: Here’s my review of The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. I wasn’t wowed, but as I sai … more →

Tags: Fiction, Reading, Book Review, Kiran Desai

That Time of Year...

angel wrote 1 year ago: After the scene that Senator Trillanes and his group created in Makati last week, everything now is … more →

Tags: highs, Tidbits, wishlist, Food, Christmas, gifts, Pregnancy, babies, Friends

Book Review: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai1 comment

Rebecca @ The Book Lady's Blog wrote 1 year ago: Set in 1986 in India at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga, where the Indian border meets those of Nepal … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Kiran Desai, Reading


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