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Annie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Annie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Annie Zaidi
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Dukhti-rag, India
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July 2013
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Essay: Because we live in this world and no other
When was the last time you read a story that well and truly blew your mind?I suppose, in order to answer that question, you’d have to first consider what it means to have your mind blown? To me, it means coming upon a story that makes me reconsider the very foundations of society, and which challenges my assumptions about what it means to be human.Because we live in a human body, and because we
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Prelude to a Riot
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Gulab
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2014
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5 editions
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Love Stories # 1 to 14
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2012
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5 editions
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Bread, Cement, Cactus
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2020
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7 editions
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Unbound: 2,000 Years of Indian Women’s Writing
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2015
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5 editions
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Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales
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2010
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City of Incident - A Novel in Twelve Parts
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The Bad Boy's Guide To The Good Indian Girl
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2011
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The Comeback : A Novel
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Crush: 50 Poems
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2007
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A good book about female atheletes in India and the politics surrounding their bodies, their status at home and in the country. Some of these essays are eye-opening and others, quite moving. I had first begun to think about women and their physical c ...more |
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“Sometimes I believe that this is the colonizer’s true legacy: an inability to look at other humans as being capable of”
― Prelude to a Riot
― Prelude to a Riot
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Indian Readers: 2013, dely is coming! | 205 | 290 | Dec 31, 2013 10:09AM | |
| Indian Readers: Who do you think is the newest kid on the block in Indian English Literature? | 59 | 384 | May 02, 2015 05:31AM |
“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
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“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”
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“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”
― Fear of Flying
― Fear of Flying
“There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.”
― The Sound of Things Falling
― The Sound of Things Falling
