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The Namesake

by Jhumpa Lahiri

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Maajed said: " Despite its deceptively simple and brilliant prose, this book left me slightly disappointed. The immigrant experience, though beautifully rendered, too often leans on cliché—and for a topic that demands such complexity, the lack of deeper insight fee ...more "

Jul 12, 2026 09:05AM · see review

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Book cover for My Sister's Grave (Tracy Crosswhite, #1)

My Sister's Grave (Tracy Crosswhite, #1) by Robert Dugoni

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Tracy had investigated horrific crime scenes with a practiced detachment. She’d become desensitized in order to deal with very visual depictions of evil manifested in man’s inhumanity to man.

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Maajed’s Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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“The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.”
― V. S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River

tags: exile, naipaul, racism

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“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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