Ladislara
A blog as diverse as my life has been
Tag: Asia
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Book Review: Home Fire, or being Pakistani in the UK
Kamila Shamsie mesmerizes us with an astonishing ending in this story about two Pakistani families tangled with the post-9/11 world in Europe.
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Weekly Opening Lines – Dec 7th
From Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee: “History has failed us, but no matter. At the turn of the century…”
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Weekly Opening Lines – Nov 23rd
From Malgudi Days, by R.K. Narayan: “Punctually at midday he opened his bag and spread out his professional equipment, which consisted…”
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Books With Animals on the Cover (TTT)
From Wild Sheep Chase to Mockingbird, passing by horses, buffalos and bees
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6 Degrees of Separation – Asian Edition
Linking books from Ireland to Pakistan, Palestine, South Korea, Singapore and Afghanistan
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Weekly Opening Lines – Oct 12th
From Home Fire, by Kamila Shamsie: “Isma was going to miss her flight. The ticket wouldn’t be refunded..”
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6 Degrees of Separation – From Ireland to Canada
Linking books from Ireland to Australia to Serbia to Chile to China to Canada and back to Ireland
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Books from September (Stacking the Shelves)
Some books that found their way to my bookcase in September
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Pachinko Review: the Challenging Life of Koreans in Japan
The saga of 4 generations of a Korean family over war and displacement
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Books on My Fall 2024 To-Read List (TTT)
A bookish meme about my reading aspirations for this Autumn
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