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Shom’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shom’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Shom Biswas’s Followers (49)
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Shom Biswas
Goodreads Author
Born
in Asansol, India
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Alexandre Dumas, Neville Cardus, Raymond Chandler, John le Carré, Grah
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Member Since
October 2011
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/biswas
Dwight Muhammad Qawi (1953-2025)
Most of you have probably never heard of Dwight Muhammad Qawi.
He passed away a couple of days ago, and here are a few thoughts about him.
Qawi was one of my all-time favorites – an embodiment of bravery, resilience, and sheer will. Despite standing just 5’6″, he fought from light-heavyweight all the way up to heavyweight, and made every inch count. His style was a masterclass in pressure and precis
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Shom Biswas
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"I came across a Twitter/X thread in which the Original Poster said she always discusses with her girlfriends how Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet truly captures the female experience and psyche (love, jealousy, obsession et al) all too accurately,"
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| I hadn’t read the book earlier. I had, of course, seen the film, who hasn’t? I don’t think Satyajit Ray ever made a bleaker movie in his entire oeuvre than Jana Aranya. It’s a classic, yes, but a suffocating, claustrophobic one. No escape hatch. No l ...more | |
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Shom Biswas
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Suhas Cadambi's review
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Meet the Savarnas: Indian Millennials Whose Mediocrity Broke Everything:
"In one of those typical exaggerations we often make in order to draw attention to a larger point, a friend recently declared that “every non-fiction book is simply a long-form article spread over 300 pages”. Meet the Savarnas is the sort of book whic"
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Absolutely agree. I have a reason to LOVE Fever Pitch, but High Fidelity, which I read in my 20s, was really the one I related to the most
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“Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed! ”
― The Shooting Star
― The Shooting Star
“and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”
― Scenes from a Writer's Life
― Scenes from a Writer's Life
“শুধু বেঁচে থাকতে পারলে, কোনওরকমে কেবলমাত্র বেঁচে থাকতে পারলেও জীবনে কত কী যে হয় !”
― সাঁতারু ও জলকন্যা
― সাঁতারু ও জলকন্যা
“I am here today to cross the swamp, not to fight all the alligators.”
― The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
― The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
“Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish.”
― The Simple Art of Murder
― The Simple Art of Murder
The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group
— 32328 members
— last activity 18 minutes ago
“It was a dark and stormy night. Lightning flashed and thunder rolled across the sky. Rain spattered a mysterious, hooded stranger who peered over the ...more
Books And Beyond With Bound Podcast
— 40 members
— last activity Apr 23, 2021 02:57PM
This is the official GoodReads group for Bound’s podcast- Books and Beyond. This is open to everyone who loves books as much as we do! Join our hosts ...more
