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Short thread on some bookish reads for this #worldbookday2020
Let's kick it off with these 4 books across genres that I think everyone should read! https://moderngypsy.in/2019/09/09/4-book-recommendations-across-genres/
Let's kick it off with these 4 books across genres that I think everyone should read! https://moderngypsy.in/2019/09/09/4-book-recommendations-across-genres/
Folks who like to read about the various wars - WWII, the holocaust, Palestine, Afghanistan, et al. have you read The Cellist of Sarajevo? This one book breached all the defenses I put up to maintain some distance from those horrors. #WorldBookDay https://moderngypsy.in/2019/08/21/book-review-cellist-of-sarajevo-steven-galloway/
I've often said we live in a dystopian world, but most times, I'm referring to Orwellian dystopia. Hugh Howeyâs Wool, now that is dystopia of a different kind! #worldbookday2020 https://moderngypsy.in/2019/01/31/when-dystopian-fiction-feels-chillingly-real-hugh-howeys-wool-and-climate-change/
But you know what? As a voracious reader, I have to admit, books have forever scarred my life!
Does that shock you? Anger you? Just hear me out here, ok? I mean, read what I have to say about this
and then tell me what you think?
#worldbookday2020 https://moderngypsy.in/2018/05/07/why-books-have-forever-scarred-my-life/
Does that shock you? Anger you? Just hear me out here, ok? I mean, read what I have to say about this
and then tell me what you think?#worldbookday2020 https://moderngypsy.in/2018/05/07/why-books-have-forever-scarred-my-life/
The story of one family in an obscure village, visited one day by a history that was not its own, and forever trapped by longing between roots and soil. A searing tale of the plight of Palestinians caught in the Israel-Palestine crisis.
#worldbookday2020 https://moderngypsy.in/2011/03/02/book-review-mornings-in-jenin-susan-abulhawa/
#worldbookday2020 https://moderngypsy.in/2011/03/02/book-review-mornings-in-jenin-susan-abulhawa/
This thread won't be complete without mention of The Golem and the Djini. Such a brilliant, fantastical, wonderful tale!
#worldbookday2020 https://moderngypsy.in/2015/12/21/book-review-the-golem-and-the-djinni-by-helene-wecker/
#worldbookday2020 https://moderngypsy.in/2015/12/21/book-review-the-golem-and-the-djinni-by-helene-wecker/
So wonderful, that I wrote a premise for a sequel to the book!! How I wish I could experience it as I did the first time, when I didn't already know how it would unfold.
Even if you aren't a fan of fantasy fiction, this is a must-read
#worldbookday2020 https://moderngypsy.in/2016/01/12/epilogue-sequel-golem-and-djinni/
Even if you aren't a fan of fantasy fiction, this is a must-read
#worldbookday2020 https://moderngypsy.in/2016/01/12/epilogue-sequel-golem-and-djinni/
Here's another beautiful book on the story of Tibet; the early years of the Chinese invasion, and of the Tibetan's struggle for freedom. #worldbookday2020 https://moderngypsy.in/2015/08/05/book-review-wind-horse-by-kaushik-barua/
And here's a book that will have you gasping at the sheer poetry on the page. Absolute gem of a read! #WorldBookDay https://moderngypsy.in/2015/06/09/book-review-seahorse-by-janice-pariat/
Looking for a book that is a meditation on time, on shared humanity and the search for meaning? One that also deals with things like Zen time, Schrödingerâs cat and quantum physics? Then you will love this! #WorldBookDay https://moderngypsy.in/2013/12/18/book-review-a-tale-for-the-time-being-by-ruth-ozeki/
Set in the backdrop of the Sri Lankan civil war, Roma Tearne's Mosquito is a hauntingly beautiful novel of love, loss and hope; of the pointlessness of war; of the physical and psychological scars of torture; of the triumph of hope.
#worldbookday2020 https://moderngypsy.in/2011/05/02/bom-mosquito-by-roma-tearne/
#worldbookday2020 https://moderngypsy.in/2011/05/02/bom-mosquito-by-roma-tearne/
