Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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+ March fiction: Monica Ali's Love Marriage (haven't finished this yet), Neel Patel's Tell Me How To Be (mothers, sons, the messiness of human hearts), and Moin Mir's The Lost Fragrance of Infinity (follows a young craftsman, Qarar Ali, across empires, Central Asia and Sufism). https://t.co/05okV7aGzi

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"What if the centre of history were occupied by what women thought about and how they related to each other?" ~ Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho https://t.co/OmLBwMq4vp

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“They were careless people — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ~ The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald https://t.co/0izPrmANPi

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[Jonas] divides 732 pages into seven progressively shorter chapters. The effect is startling; you age along with the Mikkolas, feeling the decades fly by as though it were your own life, your own family memories and experiences going past.

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+ Just finished Recitatif, the only short story Toni Morrison ever published. She wrote this in 1983; astonishing how she challenged your sense of how to read a story when you're not sure of the identities (race in this story, but also gender, caste, class) of the protagonists. https://t.co/EX0GDrpTz3

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"I need room for thousands of books and big worktables where I can heap manuscripts, where I can spread out maps. Books are very important to me. I wish I could think of them as some publishers do—as “product”— but I can’t." Annie Proulx, Bird Cloud: https://t.co/9d3ynAh87V

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“White men are eating the Earth,” he told Mr. Herbert. ... Mr. Herbert agreed, responding that the world would become a “big dune,” according to Mr. Herbert’s son Brian." https://t.co/NRoAKyccSC

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So glad to see Perumal Murugan's Pyre, translated from Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan, on the #InternationalBooker2023 longlist along with Andrey Kurkov, Maryse Condé, GauZ' and other amazing writers. https://t.co/Xrt9DXVexK

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"Books have a voice, and when they speak, they save eras and lives. Bookstores are magical places where, in an act of inspiration, we hear the soft and crackling echoes of unknown memories." -- Irene Vallejo, Papyrus https://t.co/gejNcETMSC

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"If I stop thinking of myself as a consumer, what actions can I take? How can I change as a participant in politics, in culture, in my work?" Claire Dederer, on Monsters: https://t.co/JyYlb5W2JW