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Smitha Murthy
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Born
Bangalore, India
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April 2010
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/soulmuser
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Worlds Apart: 2 friends, 2 journeys, and 10 life lessons - a true story
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2012
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mo(nu)ment
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2006
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| Passages of lyrical beauty. Sparse prose. Haunting lines. That's how I can best describe this book. There are times when Yiyun Li made me gasp with her writing - this is, after all, a personal story. A deeply personal one and it's hard to criticize i ...more | |
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| A book that kind of progressively gets worse. There's just too many things going on, and it feels more like a khichdi by the end rather than something that you really are interested in or invested in. The only good thing about it is that the story mo ...more | |
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A rather desultory novel that tried too hard, I felt. It tries to fit in everything: Racism. Diversity. Gender. Sexuality. Family. Friendship. History. And it failed to carry off any of those themes. I was quite bored through this read. Sigh. But don’ ...more |
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| Quirky. That's the word that comes to my mind when I think of this book. This was entertaining and sad, but you couldn't keep feeling sad either. At times comical, and at times using that comedy as satire, Lola is witty, warm, humane, and compassion ...more | |
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| Such a disappointment. I was expecting so much, so much from this book and it was such a disappointment, a horrible let down. I do not know much about historical fantasy as a genre but it definitely did not hit the mark for me because for about 415 p ...more | |
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| So I had really liked some of Matthew Haig's earlier works but this one kind of felt a little too predictable. It doesn't make it any less sweet or endearing but you kind of know where he's going with all of this. It becomes a little irritating hones ...more | |
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| I dread reading Indian literature because it's such a hit-or-miss for me these days. This was a miss. A big miss. Part of the problem is that the author brings at least 20 characters in the first two pages! All the aunts, sisters, uncles and everyone ...more | |
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I do love the literature that's emerging from Nigeria, and elsewhere on the African continent. I hadn't read the debut novel from Odafen, but this was a gripping and insightful read. The three perspectives tend to make life a bit confusing, but that' ...more |
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I read Shuggie Bain and was quite impressed by that book. I say that here because I don't have the best relationship with Booker Prize-winning books. But John of John was quite a read. Poetic and lyrical in parts, I was transported to the landscape o ...more |
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| This book frustrated me. It had a promising beginning, and then began to taper. It's a quick read, so it wasn't a loss of time. But just a sense that this could have been a better story, and somehow didn't. ...more | |
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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
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“It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.”
― How Should a Person Be?
― How Should a Person Be?
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