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All the Lives We Never Lived
All the Lives We Never Lived | Anuradha Roy
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"A writer of great subtlety and intelligence . . . a beautifully written and compelling story of how families fall apart and what remains of the aftermath" Kamila Shamsie, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 "The book everyone is talking about for the summer" Lorraine Candy, Sunday Times In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman" - so begins the story of Myshkin and his mother, Gayatri, who is driven to rebel against tradition and follow her artist's instinct for freedom. Freedom of a different kind is in the air across India. The fight against British rule is reaching a critical turn. The Nazis have come to power in Germany. At this point of crisis, two strangers arrive in Gayatri's town, opening up for her the vision of other possible lives. What took Myshkin's mother from India to Dutch-held Bali in the 1930s, ripping a knife through his comfortingly familiar environment? Excavating the roots of the world in which he was abandoned, Myshkin comes to understand the connections between anguish at home and a war-torn universe overtaken by patriotism. Anuradha Roy's enthralling novel is a powerful parable for our times, telling the story of men and women trapped in a dangerous era uncannily similar to the present. Impassioned, elegiac, and gripping, it brims with the same genius that has brought Roy's earlier fiction international renown. "One of India's greatest living authors" - O, The Oprah Magazine "Roy's writing is a joy" - Financial Times
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PaperbackPirate
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Thank you for the tag @Blackink_WhitePaper !
1️⃣ The most recent - read with my book club this year 💙
2️⃣ Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (he‘s Indian American) and The God of Small Things & The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
3️⃣ My book club goes to the same Indian restaurant when we read a book set in India - so yummy! Mango Lassi 🧡
Happy #IndianIndependenceDay!
I tag my newest followers @sharread @Sparklemn & @tanya1512 .

Blackink_WhitePaper Thanks for playing 😊💐 I m yet read Ministry of utmost happiness... 🙌🏻 for Mango lassi 😋😋 my all time fav 😍 4y
PaperbackPirate @Blackink_WhitePaper I didn‘t really like The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. 😬. But yes to mango lassi! 🧡 4y
Blackink_WhitePaper @PaperbackPirate 🍋🍋🥛😋😋 4y
slategreyskies I love The God of Small Things, and I love mango lassi too! I used to cook Indian food every once in a while, but I haven‘t been taking the time for it lately. I miss it and would enjoy having it again soon! 4y
PaperbackPirate @slategreyskies Omg that book! 😭 I wrote so many quotes from that one. 🥭 I don‘t like to cook but I was going to try to make a dairy-free mango lassi. 🤷🏼‍♀️. Do you cook your Indian food spicy or mild? 4y
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PaperbackPirate
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Tonight I‘m binge reading the last 97 pages of this sad & spectacular story for book club brunch tomorrow. Luckily I have the best friend to help me out! Only 54 pages to go now...
#dogsoflitsy

NeedsMoreBooks 🐶❤️🐶❤️ 4y
Kenyazero I just read your profile blurb and the first picture I see is one of said pile-of-chihuahua 🥰 4y
Leftcoastzen Cuteness! 🐶 4y
PaperbackPirate @Kenyazero I‘m on-brand! 🐕📚 4y
PaperbackPirate Thank you @Leftcoastzen ! 🐕💙 4y
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PaperbackPirate
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I had to set aside The Winter Rose so I could get this read before book club Saturday. I think we‘ll have lots to talk about!

Books88 The artwork though 😍 4y
PaperbackPirate @AJBowers I had to stop for a picture! 🦚🌈 4y
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beaconhillbooks
Mehso-so

It had potential...

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PaperbackPirate
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I needed a little shopping therapy last week so I bought books of course! I needed the tagged book for book club, with a little nudge from my dh got Letters from Wupatki from a gift shop, picked up The Sport of Kings for the upcoming Triple Crown season, and am a new Jenny Colgan fan so The Bookshop on the Corner was necessary.
Have you read any of these?

Scochrane26 Love the Bookshop on the Corner 4y
Crewgurl I also love the bookshop on the corner!!! 4y
ljuliel I agree with the 2 above — Jenny Colgan ! 4y
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Crazeedi Bookshop, yes!! 4y
AnneCecilie The Sport of Kings is great 4y
PaperbackPirate @Crewgurl @ljuliel @Crazeedi @Scochrane26 Hooray for The Bookshop on the Corner fans! I read an ARC of The Bookshop on the Shore not realizing there was another to read first. I still loved it! Have you all read The Shore? 4y
PaperbackPirate @AnneCecilie Good to know you liked it! I feel like I‘ve seen mixed reviews. 4y
ljuliel Yes The Shore one was my favorite but I liked them both. 4y
Crewgurl I didn‘t read that one actually! I‘ll have to check it out 😊 4y
PaperbackPirate @ljuliel The part with the chicken made me lol which doesn‘t often happen when I‘m reading! 🐔 4y
PaperbackPirate @Crewgurl I hope you like it as much as I did! 📚 4y
Scochrane26 I have the Shore on kindle but haven‘t read it yet. I‘ve been reading some depressing books lately, so maybe I‘ll read it after. I‘ll need a light read. @PaperbackPirate 4y
Crazeedi @PaperbackPirate yes I did!! 4y
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Nitpickyabouttrains
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A child in India during wwii and then grown up. He learns new things about his mother and what happened when he was a kid.

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beaconhillbooks
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Pickpick

A difficult book to pin down but I did like it.

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beaconhillbooks
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beaconhillbooks
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Love this quote about dogs 😬

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TheSpinecrackersBookClub
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Since today is the 5th day of the new year SCBC would like to hear about your top 5 reads from 2018. You can comment on this post or create your own post and tag Spinecrackers Book Club to share your best reads with other Spinecrackers. 📚5️⃣👓

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charl08
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Pickpick

Such a good read, sweeping story, lots of ideas and characters I didn't want to leave. (This is my local beach: in my other life I'd be a beach bum)

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charl08
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Just brilliant: I haven't yet finished it but already think it's a pick of 2011 for me.

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charl08
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...art was not an indulgence but a refuge.

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