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Mahita Vas

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Born

Singapore, Singapore

Website

http://www.mahitavas.com

Genre

Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction

Member Since

June 2012

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After nearly 30 years of working in advertising and the hospitality industry in Singapore, Mahita wrote her first book, Praying To The Goddess Of Mercy, A Memoir of Mood Swings, published in 2012. She now spends her time on mental health and migrant worker advocacy while pursuing personal interests including baking, reading and writing. Her first novel, Rain Tree, was launched at the Singapore Writers Festival in 2016 and was selected for the National Arts Council catalogue, Fiction Singapore 2017/18. Her second novel, It Happened On Scrabble Sunday, was published by Marshall Cavendish in June 2018. Her fourth book, A Good day To Die: Inside a Suicidal Mind was published by Marshall Cavendish in July 2021 and received praise in local media ...more

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	Praying to the Goddess of Mercy: A Memoir of Mood Swings 3.93 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	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
	Rain Tree 3.43 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	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 Good Day to Die 3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2021	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
	It Happened on Scrabble Sunday 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	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 Good Day to Die: Inside a suicidal mind 0.00 avg rating — 0 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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Mahita Vas rated a book liked it The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)	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
It was okay. Still don't get all the hype. I found it hard to get through the pages. I also found it quite pretentious, like a high-brow self-help book. I far prefer his other works, like Veronika Decides to Die and By the River Piedra I Sat Down and ...more
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Mahita Vas rated a book it was ok Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell	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
Didn't like the prose - too slow and boring. Scarlett got on my nerves from the start. There was so much overt racism and nastiness from characters who thought nothing of killing black people. I did not like it at all and cannot understand the fuss. ...more
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Mahita Vas rated a book liked it Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (Goodreads Author)	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
I was keen to learn what the fuss was all about. I was disappointed. I found this to be largely self-indulgent and a bit whiney in parts. Still, there were some enjoyable passages about her time in Italy (the food), India (the people) and Bali (the h ...more
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Mahita Vas rated a book liked it On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)	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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“She tried to remember all the times she had spoken to him. She replayed every moment she could remember at the beach last week. Not once had she led him to believe that she liked him improperly. And yet, last night, he had appeared as if she had invited him. She had given herself so willingly, so lasciviously, that he must have thought she had desired him all along. Perhaps she had, or perhaps she had not realised how pleasurable intimacy could be.”
― Mahita Vas, Rain Tree