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Claustrophobia

Choosing Light: When an Earthquake Buried Me and My Family for 5 Days, I Learned to Fully Live by Viral Dalal

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On vacation with his family in the coastal town of Bhuj, Viral Dalal is buried under the rubble of an eight-storey building as an earthquake hits the town. And there he must wait, for five long days, never knowing if his family is safe or he himself will survive. An important thing to know going into this review is that I am severely claustrophobic. I cannot imagine staying calm in the space that Dalal was trapped in for more than five minutes, let alone five […]

She had been meant to die, yet she’d cut her way out of that fate and back to the world she loved.

The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey

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With this review, I will finish my 1/4 CBR, so I am feeling very proud right now! I read The Widows of Malabar Hill some time ago – I mentioned sitting by the side of a lake in northern North Dakota in a previous review, and that is where I read this, as well. However, I had read quite a bit by Sujata Massey before – she had a series about a biracial detective, Rei Shimura, which often featured travel to Japan, and had pretty […]

The crime, the punishment, the Americanized reporter

Honor by Thirty Umrigar

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The world of India is opened in a way few know within the pages of Honor by Thirty Umrigar. The Beauty and The Beast of this country with its different cultures, traditions, physical light and ugly are out in the open. When a Hindu woman and her Muslim husband, are attacked by her brothers, killing her husband, an American reporter takes on her story. Not just because another woman was involved in an Honor Killing, but because she is willing to stand up to her […]

Fun way to learn history

Magical History Tour V07 Gandhi by Fabrice Erre

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Another book in the Magical History Tour is Volume 7’s Gandhi. As all the books (so far, and I have missed The Great Wall of China which I’m told is hard to do as it’s a big ol’ thing, and the Albert Einstein biography) this is a strong introduction to the subject and this subject is Gandhi. Of course, the people around him are also mentioned, and even others who practiced non-violence when protesting the injustices they saw, such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. […]

In India

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

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I know next to nothing about India. Never been there. Have a few friends/acquaintances who are but don’t know enough about their experiences to speak intelligently on what the country is like. This may have been the first fictional novel I’ve read set in the book so I went into it with eyes open. Take that all with a grain of salt because I don’t know what the perspective is from actual Indians on the book. But as a deconstruction of the country of India, […]

“That’s the word! Untouchable!”

Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand

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This semester, I’m teaching a course on global anglophone literature, i.e. literature written in English that’s neither British, Irish, nor American. (Nor, for that matter, Canadian, Australian, or New Zealander, much as I wanted them! And not quite postcolonial fiction, since our first three novels are still within the late colonial period.) Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable, originally published in 1935, was the first novel we covered for the class (it narrowly edged out Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi), and what a beautiful entry into the subject it […]



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