![]() Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol – 5/5 (coming of age story and themes of identity, graphic novel).Black Milk by Elif Shafak – 4/5 (non fiction, account of the internal and external conflicts of a mother and writer).Monstress Vol 2 (8-12 issues) by Marjorie Liu – 4.5/5.Monstress Vol 1 (1-7 issues) by Marjorie Liu – 5/5 (a dark and violent tale of gods, men and half breeds, excellent artwork).Confusion by Stefan zweig – 4/5 (I didn’t enjoy this as much as the other Zweig novellas but it was still a good read).Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig – 5/5 (engulfs the reader into the setting of the story, translated from the German).Seven Sixes are Forty Three by Kiran Nagarkar – 4/5 (character sketch of a man and the confusions in his mind, translated from the Marathi).Levels of Life by Julian Barnes – 3/5 (an account of grief over the loss of Barne’s wife, non fiction).The Beekeeper by Dunya Mikhail – 4/5 (plight of Yazidi women under Daeesh (ISIS), translated from the Arabic).Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer – 4/5 (heart breaking read, excellent characters).Palestine by Joe Sacco – 4/5 (non fiction graphic novel, plight of the Palestinians, the art work might not be for everyone).Dastaan by Intizar Hussain 4/5 (magical realism, folklore and Indian history mixed with realism, translated from the Urdu, excellent translation).Day by Intizar Hussain – 4/5 (rustic village life, melancholic, translated from the Urdu, excellent translation).Valente – 3/5 (middle grade read of a troll who is exchanged for a boy) The Boy who lost Fairyland by Catherynne M.Valente – 3/5 (fun middle grade read about Fairyland Below) The Girl who fell beneath fairyland and led the revels there by Catherynne M.All the crooked saints by Maggie Steifvater – 3/5 (magic, saints and sins, love and betrayal).When I hit you by Meena Kandasamy – 5/5 (brutal, autobiographical, abuse in marriage).A life misspent by Suryakant Tripathi Nirala – 3.5/5 (biographical, caste system, political changes in India, translated from the Hindi).Vijayan – 4/5 (magical realism, rustic village scenes, translated from the Malayalam) Here is a quick wrap up of the books I read. I read some amazing books over the month, as you can see from the ratings. Here are some excellent books to add to your TBR Click To Tweet Wrap up of my month of going on a 30 books in 30 days challenge. And phew! 30 days later my tally was 32 completely read books! That’s when I received so many messages from the reading community asking me to keep at it. I felt discouraged but decided to go ahead and keep reading. It turned out to be an exceptionally busy week and I read zero pages. I just wanted to try it out and read some good books, and that is all that mattered. But that day, I felt it didn’t matter if I failed or if I don’t begin on the first of the month with an organised reading list. ![]() (Probably because of my fear of failing). It was actually a dare that I had accepted three or so years ago but never got around to doing it. To be precise, to a time even before The Book Satchel was born. ![]() The story of taking up such a challenge goes back way beyond in time. So without much thought into the matter, no reading lists planned, and a cup of coffee, I took the plunge. A rough look at the calendar convinced me that it was ‘now’ or next year. ![]() I had been toying the idea for a while ( It was one of my New year resolutions as well). I decided on an impulse then and there that I’d try out the 30 books in 30 days challenge. It was a Friday and I was sipping my cup of evening coffee. If you love reading, why not take up an impossible challenge of reading 30 books in 30 days and see how things turn out? Bad plan? That’s what happened on April 27th, 2018.
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