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A Fine Balance

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      children: "So so so so so good. Haven’t read anything of the sort in a while and probably won’t read many similar books in the future. But true to character, I have always liked books which jump forward and backward through time and this was one of them."
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      children: "Varsha’s story was really interesting and caught me off guard. I think I was even frightened at parts by events, such as her appearance in Shoma’s bedroom one night. I also enjoyed Dinu’s story. I do hope Ghosh writes a follow up to this novel talking about Dinu as a kid and his relation with animals."
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      children: "Just so amazing. My one gripe is that nobody talks like Tipu does in real life (the slang was sort of awkward) but that was one passage in a book full of amazing ones. Top class"
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Ghost-Eye

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      children: "This was probably one of the most interesting books i've read in a long time. I really enjoyed how the book was deeply pragmatic and raw from beginning to middle, but at the end it became surreal and so beautiful. I also really enjoy books which touch on other literature and constantly pay credence to authors and poets from other times, to which end I really enjoyed Cyrus' dream (or was it a dream?!) of Rumi and Ali together. Very interesting set of references to other martyrs as well - I recall a poem re Bhagat Singh to start one of the chapters, as well as Ferdowsi's poem."
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      children: "I found the end a bit neatly tied up. I wish it was a little longer, maybe selfishly, so that I could have read more! I likely would have enjoyed the moment of realization with Zee to not have come so quickly and all at once towards the end. However, the end was so beautiful that I have no right complaining."
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Martyr!

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      children: "What a truly truly sad work of literature. So beautiful but so sad. Novellas are amazing"
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Sofia Petrovna

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      children: "very very good book, made me reflect on what i want to do and what the meaning of what i want to do is. i think it was very similar to the little prince in a lot of ways which was also nice."
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      children: "i also liked the religious references across faiths and stories"
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The Alchemist

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    children: "Phenomenal book, first Murakami novel after First Person Singular. Beautiful, panging and sad story"
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The City and Its Uncertain Walls

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    children: [_jsx(_components.p, {
      children: "Such such a good book and waited so long to read it (first book I’ve waited for the release since Harry Potter Cursed Child). I think Sonia was the most interesting character which was surprising bc I was expecting Sunny to be just because of a natural similarity but I found Sonia’s arc so cool. I found it especially nice how her character developed slowly and thoughtfully - it wasn’t too quick and had a lot of loss which was a pro and a con."
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      children: "I thought Babita had a particularly jaded character and could perhaps have softened up sooner, but I think that would go against the trope of a single woman living alone in Goa - similar to Sonia at the end."
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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

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    children: "Ending took me by such surprise. I think that Nabokov writes tastefully but still so clearly. I think Luzhin's relationship with the match against Turati was something represented inside all of us with our biggest struggles. We are avoidant and nervous characters, and perhaps much of life is dancing around these things!"
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The Luzhin Defense

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      children: "Pretty good but I will have to re read eventually. Lots of fun reading it and trying to keep up with Bulgakov’s mad fast world. It is almost as though we were the citizens of Moscow getting played around with and Bulgakov was Woland himself."
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The Master and Margarita

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      children: "good read tbh, very easy to get through but also nuanced. i read an analysis somewhere that i really liked that basically said that this book is similar to being an artist:"
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      children: ["\n", _jsx(_components.li, {
        children: "your craft is something, in this case fishing"
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        children: "you go out to the world and try to revive yourself once more, in this case was the last pursuit"
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        children: "you come back with something that is quite impressive, in this case the huge fish"
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        children: "it ends up being stripped away and turned to trash by society because nothing of merit is ever appreciated unless it’s at face value"
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The Old Man and the Sea

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    children: "Very mid book. Came across as preachy at times, also quite disjointed. Didn't feel as novel as a lot of the books referenced (thinking fast and slow etc.)"
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Thinking in Bets

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    children: "Super powerful book, kind of a lot going on with different stories, but I sent the author an email after. It was reminiscent of an Achebe essay I read once. Also enjoyed learning about the different stories of Ci Waras and Lagos."
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Tremor

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    children: "Some stories great some not so good. I liked the story of the cellist and the story of the guitarist in the hills. The first story wasn't great, but overall solid collection. I want to do Never Let Me Go next."
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Nocturnes

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    children: "It was a bit too out there for me but a decent read. Some pretty parts (Daniel Nayeri \"Everything Sad is Untrue\" esque) and other confusing and kind of ethereal parts."
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Exit West

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    children: "Great story of grit and ambition. Honestly really liked the middle to end parts - I thought the beginning was a bit dense. However, that density made sense because so much of Joe's life was a result of the way he was treated by his family. All in all a great book, at times dense and at times slow, but I praise it for it never had me flipping back a few pages to remember who someone was (which is my biggest plight of nonfiction)."
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The Boys In The Boat

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  return _jsx(_components.p, {
    children: "Fascinating work. My ratings are all surely inflated but I thought this was a really well written work. Parts were dense, and it's easy to get lost in the poetry, but this was a great way to get subsequent recommendations. F Scott Fitzgerald comes across as very well read and versed in the various works of authors far and wide. Amory's love with various women was fun to track. Of particular note were his relationship (and similarities) with Myra to Isabelle to Rosalind to Eleanor. Amory was never going to tie the knot, but it was a thrilling exercise to hope he did every time. I wish the end wasn't so introspective and sad. Don't we all."
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This Side Of Paradise

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    children: "This had one of those pretty and beautifully imaginary airs around it. I felt like I was reading not as much a work of fiction but maybe a collection of Dante's paradise at times with the descriptions of what an ocean with all of the sky around it looks like. Lots of similarities to Life of Pi and you should definitely read LOP first before this (reminder to go back and reread LOP as well lol)."
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Stranger In The Lifeboat

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    children: "At times it was pretty and nostalgic and all of the feelings that come with revisiting a \"friend\" (or in some sense a time) of your youth. In these moments the writing was no short of vivid imagery and capable of providing me with enough firepower to remember myself once upon a time. At other times the book was rather rambling and without an end - metaphors I felt could have been expanded further or at least concentrated into pieces that a reader could tear apart piece by piece instead of left wondering where the motif lay."
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Friend Of My Youth

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    children: "I think this number of stars is liable to fluctuating over time as I revisit this book (or rather my thoughts on it) but let's give it a 3 for now. It's quite rich - at many junctions was I thinking of the hero's journey, the meaning of metaphors, and other literary elements and symbolism. However, it's almost too rich to understand and make sense of. The story is segmented into pieces that make it bite sized but all meaningful in the context of the large truth that Rushdie explores - he truly is a unique genius."
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Midnight's Children

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    children: "Such a great book; almost every part had a purpose, and even though it flip-flopped chronologically it felt redeeming to find out why at the end. It made me really feel for sons like Amar and fathers like Rafiq."
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A Place For Us

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    children: "In true Hosseini fashion, the ending is so sad it is almost unimaginable, but generally the book felt heart-wrenching and valuable. I left with the sense that the small actions over time compound to make really big waves in the ocean between two people."
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And The Mountains Echoed

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    children: "I didn't realize at the time that this was based on Sahota's own family experience, but it was a decent read. After seeing new-age narratives mirror the past so often, it was refreshing to find a new spin; Mehar and the young man mirror each other in a delightful way."
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China Room

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    children: "Pretty interesting. The five stages are something I find myself thinking about often, but what stuck most was Bill Gore's \"waterline\" principle for decision-making and risk-taking: imagine being on a ship where a bad decision blows a hole in the hull. Above the waterline you can patch it, learn, and sail on, but below the waterline you risk gouging the ship and letting water rush in, the kind of catastrophic bets that sank financial firms in 2008. Great enterprises still make bold bets, but avoid the ones that sink the ship."
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How the Mighty Fall

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    children: "Decent read, another one to add to the canon of Indian-American short stories. Stereotypes matter and are often quickly missed."
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If You See Me, Don't Say Hi

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Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra

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    children: "Spoiler alert it's not often that I give a book here a perfect 5 rating (especially considering the fact that I can't rate more specifically than in increments of 1) however this was potentially a perfect 5. I thought Cream was quite well done and would love to consider more the idea that Murakami is talking about Dante's 7 circles of hell. On a stone pillow was also absolutely wonderful and quite a hopeless romantic story but I think that there are bits and pieces to take from that regardless. Charlie Parker plays bossa nova started off well but I wish the author had elongated the encounter between the narrator and Charlie Parker - but then again, maybe that's the point of the story and the encounter is intentionally short. With the Beatles was also nice, and I think that if/when I reread it I'd like to read more about the Beatles before. Confessions of a Shinagawa monkey was my favorite story BY FAR and I think that the concept down to the vivid descriptions leaves so much for the reader to want. If there was one story that I would want adapted into visual format it would probably be this one, but at the same time the story was so vivid that I was playing a movie in my head either way. Carnaval was incredibly well done and rekindled a bit of classical music listener in me. I'm not sure what the overarching meaning of the \"ugly\" motif was but maybe I'll understand it my next time around. On the downside, the Yakult swallows poetry collection was my least favorite. I'd like to think that the interspersed poetry was not the entirety of the reason why, but it just may have been. I also think the baseball imagery was harder to resonate with because I don't know the full background of Japanese baseball. If it was the Yankees, Dodgers, and Red Sox I may have understood the relations and context more, but I think that I was missing something. First person singular (the story) was quite well done but I wish there was a bit more closure towards the end. All in all, this collection was wonderful and leaves me interested in picking up a Murakami book sometime soon - perhaps 1Q84, Kafka on the Shore, or Norwegian Wood."
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First Person Singular Stories

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Green Hills Of Africa

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    children: "Really good short stories - I've always been a fan of sci-fi and Asimov in general but I had not looked at his short stories until yet. I think this was a great time to read it with all of these new developments in AI (chatGPT, autonomous robots, etc.) and the story \"All the Troubles of the World\" really stuck out to me here. \"I want to die\" such a cool way to end the story and also chilling in a lot of ways. Multivac stories are something I will come back to over the next few years."
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Nine Tomorrows

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The Inheritance Of Loss

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    children: "Mid book lowkey dragged the story."
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The Book Of Fire

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    children: "A million sunsets."
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The Little Prince

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    children: "Hilarious book, and one of those ones you can read over and over and not get bored. I think there's a whole series and a lot more to Townsend that I have yet to read, but the format and structure of this brought me back to early middle school."
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Adrian Mole The Lost Years

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    children: "Spoiler alert very good collection favorite story was Hema and Kaushik three part and Only Goodness (Sudha/Rahul alcoholism story)."
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Unaccustomed Earth

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    children: "Spoiler alert as far as plays go not enough dramatization for me, wish more of Sartre's existentialism came through. Premise was heart wrenching."
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The Respectful Prostitute

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    children: "Connections were unique and made each next story better than the previous."
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Everyone Dies Famous In A Small Town

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A Year in Provence

An Abundance of Katherines

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      children: "honestly parts in the middle were a bit glossed over (plays can be that way for me lol) but if i were to go back i would want to read more about tolstoy and nietschze in the context of this play ie why hally and sam mentioned it"
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      children: "bench metaphor at the end was top tier though i really thought it appealed to any reader"
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      children: "made me want to learn more about apartheid too"
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"Master Harold"... and the Boys

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    children: "beautiful descriptions of loving the heart in every human - wonderful connection back to hector negron at the end too"
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Miracle at St. Anna

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    children: [_jsx(_components.p, {
      children: "parts of this were a tough read not because it’s badly written but because it’s so rich and meaningful - every single description (even of jacques apartment) is not just a description but an image into his soul and that’s lowkey so cool"
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      children: "i would love to re read eventually and draw some more connection with genevieve"
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Southern Mail

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    children: "I haven't read many books or short stories from a woman's perspective, so this collection was enlightening. I found myself thinking hard about breaking points: what brings a human there, what forces a turnaround, and what forces a recession."
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Arranged Marriage

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Everything Sad Is Untrue

Frankenstein

Holding Up the Universe

Love & Other Train Wrecks

Manto: Selected Short Stories

Something Fresh

The Art of Racing in the Rain

The Bluest Eye

The Color of Water

The Inimitable Jeeves

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    children: "So so so hilarious, great recommendation from Dad."
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