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Jayaprakash’s 2024 Year in Books
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Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
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September 2008
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Ashes and Entropy
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2018
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4 editions
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The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Vol. 2
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2022
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Multiverses: An Anthology of Alternate Realities
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2023
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Weird Tales of a Bangalorean
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2014
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Come Tomorrow: And Other Tales of Bangalore Terror
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2020
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Strength of Water
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2019
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5 editions
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A Volume of Sleep
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2017
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Journal of Megrim
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2021
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Broken Cup
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2020
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Shelter From The Storm: and other myths
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2023
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2 editions
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| took time to convince me, eventually did. in dialogue with ORLANDO by Virginia Woolf of course but maybe also DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE. what we suppress, our shadow self. | |
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| A series of avoidances, of obfuscations and wallowings, until finally there is some lucidity and sad beauty near the very end. A strange, dilatory, complicated, but very short and simple book. I sympathise but don't admire. ...more | |
"This unique book took me right back to the time when, as a carefree child, I ran across fields and jumped over streams with my brother, and climbed trees and hung from their branches, never doubting I could do anything he was able to do. We were comp"
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| A series of avoidances, of obfuscations and wallowings, until finally there is some lucidity and sad beauty near the very end. A strange, dilatory, complicated, but very short and simple book. I sympathise but don't admire. ...more | |
"A novel whose framework of empathy, just like the narrator itself, is inherently limited. His subject, a close friend Fanny, depressed, with alter-ego ‘Felix’, is chronicled obsessively by the narrator from her childhood to her suicide at the age of "
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| It was fine. There's stuff about corporate work culture, there's stuff about alienated labour, there's science fictional window dressing...it was fine. It doesn't take too long to read but it's very very soft focus stuff. ...more | |
"This is one of those rare books that’s become a sleeper hit, its buzzy status steadily creeping up since its initial English translation last year. The basic idea is, I think, pretty well-known by now: a woman lives the same day, the 18th of November"
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| This novel centres on Iris Whittle, who works in a dollmaker's shop, painting and dressing porcelain dolls and also serving as a salesgirl. Not quite a doll factory, but to an extent the novel's title also has a thematic purpose, signposting the vari ...more | |
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| This is a wild concoction. A young woman is engaged to marry a lawyer from a wealthy family in 1890s New York. Instead, she goes off to England to look after her half-brother's children, finds the children abandoned in a seedy boarding home, takes th ...more | |
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| In 1972, a supply boat arrives at a lighthouse off the Cornish coast to find the three men on duty have disappeared. There is no trace of them. 20 years later, a writer of historical tales of nautical adventure decides to write a book about the case, ...more | |
“She wouldn't start a religion. She wouldn't teach anyone truth. The problem starts there. When you decide to teach someone truth. It is a problem, when someone teaches you truth.”
― Strength of Water
― Strength of Water
“I want to find a terrible secret at the city’s heart
then go all the way back and find the first truths soaked into this land
and further, furthest, I want to walk
in empty space forever right here
don’t follow me”
― Weird Tales of a Bangalorean
then go all the way back and find the first truths soaked into this land
and further, furthest, I want to walk
in empty space forever right here
don’t follow me”
― Weird Tales of a Bangalorean
“I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.”
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“There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.”
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“I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”
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“Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different. ”
― Family Matters
― Family Matters
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
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Sorry I've fallen so far behind in keeping up with people's reviews. I went through a period of 'pointed stick time' (these are times when I'm convinced that any technology more complex than a pointed stick is too prone to breakdown to be reliable). Through all of September, my computer was in the shop. I'm getting caught up on my backlog, but it'll likely be some time before I get caught up. So I, as well as my correspondents, will likely have to school ourselves to patience for some time yet.
Oouh I was so surprised when I finally entered to yr prof page!!I was about to comment on the picture I show on yr avatar & now.. Anyway I am sure we'll get along, from following Ya for the whole time I show an genuine match on our tastes
Take care Jay ( such a loong name at first I thought u were pulling my leg or that u were wearing a Hindu nickname, Like Sam in Zelazny's work on "lord of Light" )
I will be sure to add U on my future recommendations :D
Thanks for the acceptance. Quite a nice list of books you've read there.
Hey welcome to Goodreads.Heh i didnt know you rated Jack Vance that highly.
Cheers, Ivonne