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Smitha Vishwanath
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Book Review 14/50, 2026: The Hour of God by Vinita Agrawal
This is a beautiful collection of poetry that I bought in April after hearing the author read one of the poems on Instagram. It is published by Red River Press, the same publisher as my latest book, The Inheritance of Solitude. The minimalist cover, showing an X-ray image of a flowering magnolia branch with delicate, […]
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| Reading this book was an opportunity to revisit and understand how it feels to age, become dependent, feel alienated, and to live with the knowledge that you will not be with your loved ones for as long as you wish. As morose as it sounds, it's the t ...more | |
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I love Jhumpa Lahiri's writing for the language, vivid descriptions and the characters she weaves. I read 'Unaccustomed Earth' and watched 'Namesake'. Having read 'The Interpreter of Maladies', I intend to read other books by the author as well. This ...more |
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| Camus's writing reminded me of the protagonist in J.D.Salinger's 'The Catcher in the Rye'. The first-person narrative, with short, direct sentences written in a reporting style and devoid of emotion, provides the reader with a peek into the protagoni ...more | |
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| The poems in this book reiterate the message of loving oneself and meeting the world with love. Cindy Georgakas does not tire of telling the reader that life was not meant to be easy, but that's not a reason to give up. The message of facing the stor ...more | |
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A pleasant 'afternoon read that dwells on love in all its bittersweet moments I loved the book title, which immediately evokes a sense of warmth and love. In 'Afternoons that tasted like love in Manila', Michelle's words weave a spell that has the pow ...more |
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Barbara Leonhard's book, Three-penny Memories, is dedicated to her mother. The quote by Emily Dickinson on the dedication page, 'Where Thou art, That is home,' must be remembered as the premise on which the relationship is based while reading the poe ...more |
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The Inheritance of Solitude: Poems on Hurt & Healing:
"‘Inheritance of Solitude’ is a flute for the heart. The timbres it produces vibrate and echo in the hearts of all who have experienced hurt and loss. Soft and breezy, with breathtaking imagery, Smitha’s poetry soars on the wings of healing despite th"
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| I enjoyed reading this 100-page book, which is a re-visioning of the Ramayan, told from the pov of Sita, Urmila, Renuka, Ahalya. It's relevant to the times, questions age-old beliefs and traditions and explains why it's necessary to have an alternate ...more | |
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
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“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.”
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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
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