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Sharon Bakar

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Creative writing teacher, editor, indie publisher. Read mainly literary fiction, and love the short story especially. Also vary my reading diet with a bit of non-fiction. Am a bit of a ploddy reader, can't usually manage more than a book a week, but do try to set aside at least an hour to read each day (usually first thing in the morning). ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 153 ratings · 42 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Readings from Readings: New Malaysian Writing by Bernice Chauly (Editor), Sharon Bakar (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.58 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Readings from Readings 2: New Writing from Malaysia, Singapore and Beyond by Bernice Chauly (Editor), Sharon Bakar (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marc de Faoite (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bitter Root Sweet Fruit by Dipika Mukherjee (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sharon Bakar (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Timothy Nakayama (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everything About Us: Readings from Readings 3 by Sharon Bakar (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jane Williams (Contributor), Sharon D. Molyneaux-Ohno (Contributor) 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Champion Fellas by Dipika Mukherjee (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sharon Bakar (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Hanna Alkaf (Goodreads Author) (contributor) 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Chance Encounter at Sungai Chiling and Other Stories: Award Winning Stories from the Malaysian Short Story Writing Competition 2022 by Malachi Edwin Vethamani (Editor), Sharon Bakar (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sharmilla Ganesan (Goodreads Author) 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Endings & Beginnings by Dipika Mukherjee (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sharon Bakar (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Hezreen Abdul Rashid (Goodreads Author) 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collateral Damage 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Subtle Degree of Restraint and Other Stories by Karina Robles Bahrin, Sharon Bakar (Goodreads Author), Bernice Chauly liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Long Island (Eilis Lacey #2)

by Colm Tóibín

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Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference

by Rutger Bregman (Goodreads Author)

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Fever Dream

by Samanta Schweblin

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“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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“This is what differentiates sympathy from empathy. No matter how much I care for you, it's not until I recognize me in you and you in me that the veil of gauze is lifted on the world.”
― Jackson Galaxy, Cat Daddy: What the World's Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love, and Coming Clean

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“We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

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“And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn't exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad