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Chiranthi’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Chiranthi’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Chiranthi Rajapakse’s Followers (6)
1,578 books
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549 books
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237 books
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913 books
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779 books
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360 books
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385 books
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300 books
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Chiranthi Rajapakse
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March 2013
A day at Whist
My aunts say “Modara shok maalu thiyenawa” when I say that I’m going to Modera.
I say no, fish is nowhere on my list of priorities. Heaven forbid. This is to listen to a talk. Part of a festival. Oh, a literary festival. One of those funny Colombo things they say, but in kindly tones.
I am going but I don’t know where to go. The festival is at Whist Bungalow in Modera. On the website I click on the
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Keeping Time and other stories
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2023
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"I watched Simon Baker’s film adaptation of Breath years ago. Loved it. At the time, I didn’t know it was based on a novel. When I discovered it was, I knew I had to read it. Breath, winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin, is my first Tim Winton rea"
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
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“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
― M Is for Magic
― M Is for Magic
“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”
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“There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.”
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