Dear Reader
DeepanjanaA newsletter about books, reading and writing.
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Who's got a new book? Me.
Yesterday, I got mail. From the look of the package that the courier handed me, it seemed to be a book. I figured it’s something that has come in response to my wheedling emails asking for review copies.
(Margaret Atwood’s memoir is priced...
The Long and the Short of it
There are still three months left to the year, but I think I’ve found my favourite read of 2025 — The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, by Kiran Desai. Non-fiction is great for both virtue signalling and also actually making you smarter, but t...
July Reccos
Thanks to this year’s Booker longlist, I’ve had a mini existential crisis. I could swear I started reading Audition by Katie Kitamura and Universality by Natasha Brown, but for the life of me, I can’t remember anything about either book. Al...
Heart Lamp and More...
If you go to the website of the Booker Prizes, some clicking will take you to the page that announces the winner of this year’s International Booker Prize: Heart Lamp, by author Banu Mushtaq and author Deep Bhasthi.
That’s not a typo, by t...
Mayday!
Ok, it’s past midnight as I start typing this, which means technically, it is not May day, but it’s still mayday. In a sense. Bear with me.
I write to you as a reader in distress. Last weekend, The Bookshop put up a post on Instagram that...
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