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On My Bookshelf: Community Recs No. 8

Book cover for S. Shankar's "Ghost in the Tamarind: A Novel." Background is a negative imprint of a tree thick with leaves against a red gradient.

I recommend Ghost in the Tamarind: A Novel by Subramanian Shankar. It is a postcolonial story that takes place in India where a Brahmin boy, Ramu, finds a body of a laborer, Muragappa, under a tamarind tree. The time is pre-Independent India, and the class and caste boundaries prevent an investigation. Ramu cannot get theContinue reading “On My Bookshelf: Community Recs No. 8”

On My Bookshelf: Community Recs No. 6

I must admit that I’m a slow reader as it is, but it took me ten days to read The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made. I decided to challenge myself and read one hundred books this year, so this was a misstep if I had to readContinue reading “On My Bookshelf: Community Recs No. 6”

On My Bookshelf: Community Recs No. 1

I’ve always been an avid reader. I love all kinds of books – non-fiction, fantasy, romance, science fiction, historical fiction, and more. But like so many others, this pandemic has made it harder for me to focus, and it takes a lot more these days for me to immerse myself in a fictional world. ButContinue reading “On My Bookshelf: Community Recs No. 1”