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Sreesha Divakaran

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November 12, 1986

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Contemporary, Memoir, Poetry

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Average rating: 4.36 · 91 ratings · 30 reviews · 6 distinct works

	A Little Chorus of Love by Anmol Rawat (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Preethi Venugopala (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tina Basu (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.08 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Defiant Dreams - Tales of Everyday Divas by Rhiti Bose (Goodreads Author) (Compiler), Lopamudra Banerjee (Goodreads Author) (Compiler), Sanghamitra Bose (Goodreads Author) 4.51 avg rating — 37 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Those Imperfect Strokes 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead Girls Walking: The Green Volume by Parth Sarathi Chakraborty (Editor), Rasiika Sen (Editor), Alicia Alves 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Disturbia it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wine, Fire, Satin, Dew 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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On the impossibility of making new friends as an adult In my 20s, I took pride in believing that I was a loner. There was a book… Read more "All My Friends Were In One Basket"

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Mother Mary Comes to Me

by Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author)

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Moving

by Jenny Eclair

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Othello

by William Shakespeare

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Sreesha Divakaran is currently reading Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Memoir	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Sreesha Divakaran rated a book it was ok The Wedding People by Alison Espach	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
There were many moments where I could’ve stopped reading. Or should’ve stopped reading. But I didn’t. That’s 1.5 months I’ll never get back.
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Sreesha Divakaran marked as dnf The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
My apologies to Ocean Vuong, but I promise to revisit at a later date. Paused around chapter 10.
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Sreesha Divakaran rated a book really liked it Nutshell by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Quotes by Sreesha Divakaran (?)

“No, I don't miss you... Not in a way that one is missed.
But I think of you.
Sometimes.
In the way that one might think of the summer sunshine
On a winter night...”
― Sreesha Divakaran, Those Imperfect Strokes

tags: love, missing-someone, missing-you, sunshine, winter

224 likes

“He craved silences and solitude. He simply could not get lost in another person’s life.”
― Sreesha Divakaran, A Little Chorus of Love

tags: commitment, crave, loner, solitude

35 likes

“Let's live a lie for today.
You’ll spin tales
and pretend to love me.
And I'll smile; you’ll not realize it’s fake
Then I’ll pretend
your pretensions don’t cause me pain.”
― Sreesha Divakaran, Wine, Fire, Satin, Dew

tags: living-a-lie, pain, pretense

10 likes

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Sreesha’s Quotes

“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

tags: education, marriage

2730 likes

“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

tags: anticipation

1960 likes

“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

1738 likes

“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

tags: alone, man-s-heart, men, sad, violence, women

1435 likes

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner