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Book Review! - Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Dec. 4, 2023, 11:09 a.m.

Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.  When I first read " Purple Hibiscus", I was hit by the power of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's writing. Followed it up with " Half of A Yellow Sun", "Am…

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We Wish To Inform!

March 22, 2023, 8:07 a.m.

We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Philip Gourevitch (published by Picador Classics)   This was a very difficult book to read. Covering the genocide in…

Article by Karuwaki Speaks (462)

NIGHT by ELIE WIESEL

Feb. 1, 2023, 4:37 a.m.

Book Review:- ( Translated from French by Marion Wiesel, Published by Penguin, 120 pgs) Some dates remain perpetually etched in our brains and consciousness. We don’t forget them. These can…

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Madonna In A Fur Coat: Sabahattin Ali

Nov. 30, 2022, 11:20 a.m.

Book Review by:- Sunheri Sufi In June 2022, NYT Books (which is all things books from The New York Times) started a travel literary guide feature, ‘Read Your Way around the World”. A won…

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Small Things Like These By Claire Keegan!

Oct. 26, 2022, 10:15 a.m.

I write this review with a bitter sweet feeling. This is one of the books, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, and I had really wanted it to win the prestigious literary award. Not that the book…

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KOH-I-NOOR: The History of the World’s Most Infamous Diamond!

Sept. 7, 2022, 10:09 a.m.

By William Dalrymple and Anita Anand 335 pp, Hardbound , Bloomsbury Well, as an Indian, it perhaps is a given that I would be a tad fascinated by the ‘Kohinoor’ diamond. Added to this, i…