Today’s priorities should be reflective of tomorrow’s regrets that you don’t want.
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No Regrets: The Guilt-Free Women’s guide to a Good Life by Kaveree Bamzai is truly a life-saving book for women who have been caught up with the fast-moving life so much that they have forgotten to live for themselves, to take a break, to love themselves, to think of themselves before anyone else.
Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
– Marianne Williamson
I do not belong to any religion, My religion belongs to me by Aza Garcia is a spiritual fiction book which introduces the idea of enlightenment and not confirming yourself to the boundaries of religion. The author has talked about this through the voice of Satya and how one doesn’t need to follow the institutionalized religion.
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You is kind. You is smart. You is important.
What a beautiful and heart-wrenching book!!! I think The Help by Kathryn Stockett is one of the best books of all time. It’s set in Jackson, Mississippi in 1962 where white people hired colored for their domestic help, for looking after their children but they don’t trust them even with a penny.
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
As you all know I have been raving about 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami for over a month now, on my stories, twitter, or posts and why shouldn’t I?? I mean, seriously, what a piece of art it is!!! It feels like I knew these characters personally, like they were right there in front of me all this time, like the last month I had spend in 1Q84.
You must return to the present before the coffee gets cold.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi is set in a cafe in Tokyo. It’s been there for 100 years but this cafe doesn’t just serve coffee, it also gives the chance to travel back in time. Many believe it to be a myth but people who seek to travel back can do it only if they follow a set of particular rules.
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Laughter looks so disgusting sometimes.
Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharti (translated by Marilyn Booth, who I think has done a great job) was the winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize and I was already intrigued by its blurb when the book came out.
The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.
It was a great year reading-wise. I discovered some new authors and I am grateful to all of you for all the recommendations, love and support.
It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.
These are my Top 10 reads of the year in no particular order. I loved every one of these and would definitely recommend them.
The past was always there, lurking in the corners, winking at you when you thought you’d moved on, hanging on to your organs from the inside.
The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali is set in the 1950s in Tehran which was fighting for its democracy and amidst all that was a girl and a boy who fell in love but unfortunately, after all the struggles they had been through they were separated just before their marriage only to meet after 60 years.
