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Atrayee is Currently Reading

Atrayee is currently reading

Brick Lane

by Monica Ali

bookshelves: currently-reading, 21st-century, anglophone-literature, asian, english, feminism, fiction, immigrant-fiction, novel, postcolonial, postcolonial-novel, south-asia, south-asian-fiction, women

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The Binding Vine

by Shashi Deshpande

bookshelves: currently-reading, 20th-century, anglophone-literature, asian, english, feminism, fiction, india, indian-writing-in-english, novel, postcolonial, postcolonial-novel, south-asia, south-asian-fiction, women

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Bashai Tudu

by Mahasweta Devi

bookshelves: currently-reading, 20th-century, bangla, class, fiction, marxism, novel, postcolonial-novel, south-asian-fiction

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Atrayee’s Notes & Highlights

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

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There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now ...more

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Atrayee’s Quotes

“I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: learning, life, new-skills, stretching

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“School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: learning, school

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“When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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