Annual Book Lists

What makes you, you?

๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚, ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚? ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—น๐—น ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ณ ‘๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฆ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฝ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐˜‚๐˜€’ Imagine that you went on a long journey on the sea Across the years, you end up having to replace or repair the broken parts of the ship. So much so that when you sail back home, every single component …

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Review – The Booker prize winner, The Promise

The Promise is a 2021 Booker prize winner A story of a dysfunctional White South African family And its disintegration over time Of a promise made to their Black maid that takes 30 years to acknowledge That weaves together the narrative of the changing political system underlying it “Galgut depicts a family that has no …

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Ranjani Mani 2021 Read List – 52 Books I read this year!

Book # Title 1/52 The Psychology of Money  2/52 The Midnight Library 3/52 The Promised Land – Barack Obama 4/52 The Kabuliwalla – Rabindranath Tagore 5/52 The Henna Artist 6/52 The Last Queen 7/52 Tiny Habits 8/52 The Push 9/52 Greenlights 10/52 The man who solved the market 11/52 Think again, Adam Grant 12/52 Alchemy …

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