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Vivek’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Vivek’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Vivek Tejuja
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August 25, 1983
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Yeah :) He he. Please read it and tell me what you thought! :-*
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There are so many of them now, for spring. To start with the International Booker 2023 Longlist.
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So Now You Know: A Memoir of Growing Up Gay in India
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So Now You Know: Growing Up Gay in India
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| I only picked up Mrs. Caliban because Ann Patchett mentioned it on her Parnassus Books YouTube series, New To You. Honestly, I wasn’t planning to read it, but the way she described it, this weird little “lost classic” stuck in my head. And wow, it’s… ...more | |
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| Natasha Brown’s second novel, Universality, is a sharp, satirical ride through modern media, privilege, and power. It opens with what seems like a feature from a glossy magazine: a COVID-era rave at a Yorkshire farmhouse ends with one of its members ...more | |
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| I picked up Marie Rutkoski’s Ordinary Love expecting a neat literary detour from the YA I know her for, and instead found a slow-burning, fully human novel that stayed with me. Rutkoski moves into adult fiction with confidence, following Emily and Ge ...more | |
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| Reading Keeru by Fauzia Rafique, in Haider Shahbaz’s English translation, felt less like opening a novella and more like confronting fragments of my own past through someone else’s story. Growing up as a gay man in India in the 1990s, silence was con ...more | |
“It is funny how parents mean so much to children and vice-versa, and yet we don’t believe in honest conversations in our country.”
― So Now You Know: A Memoir of Growing Up Gay in India
― So Now You Know: A Memoir of Growing Up Gay in India
“The lesson I learnt without knowing it: never make demigods of people you adore. Never. They will only disappoint you in the long run.”
― So Now You Know: A Memoir of Growing Up Gay in India
― So Now You Know: A Memoir of Growing Up Gay in India
“It is quite strange, almost romantic how we attach certain things to memories and people. They just stay there and become life-long associations, whether we like it or not.”
― So Now You Know: A Memoir of Growing Up Gay in India
― So Now You Know: A Memoir of Growing Up Gay in India
“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste!”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
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