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The Friday Reads that took a few twists and turns



*The week in review on my channel:*

Zooming In: None of Your Damned Business - Dorian and Shawn on Nameless Protagonists & Narrators
youtu.be/qwdxjmC46BA

Alina and Shawn chat about The Colony by Audrey Magee
youtu.be/VBZrM2aWEAM



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Time stamps (scroll down for Goodreads links):

00:00 Introduction

04:21 Mystery guest

37:46 Weekly highlights

38:44 The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence

39:34 The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

42:27 Ivy's Tree by Wendy Burton

45:17 Animal Person by Alexander MacLeod



Books mentioned:

Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh
goodreads.com/book/show/42436500-gun-island?ac=1&from_search=true

Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
Srinath Perur (Translator)
goodreads.com/book/show/30267604-ghachar-ghochar
(My review: youtube.com/watch?v=QoallDjKwGs&t=34s)

Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat by Perumal Murugan
N. Kalyan Raman (Translator)
goodreads.com/book/show/38318462-poonachi?ac=1&from_search=true

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
goodreads.com/book/show/208931300-intermezzo?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_10

Stories of the True by Jeyamohan
Priyamvada (Translator)
goodreads.com/book/show/62080203-stories-of-the-true?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=1CRQUkkkUt&rank=1

Heart Lamp: Selected Stories by Banu Mushtaq
Deepa Bhasthi (Translator)
goodreads.com/book/show/205544315-heart-lamp

Sakina’s Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag
Srinath Perur (Translator)
goodreads.com/book/show/198534114-sakina-s-kiss

Denison Avenue by Christina Wong
Daniel Innes (Illustrator)
goodreads.com/book/show/64995552-denison-avenue

Because Somebody Asked Me To: Observations on History, Literature, and the Passing Scene by Guy Vanderhaeghe
goodreads.com/book/show/208912957-because-somebody-asked-me-to

The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
goodreads.com/book/show/317748.The_Stone_Angel

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
goodreads.com/book/show/199798201-the-safekeep?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_8

Ivy's Tree by Wendy Burton
goodreads.com/book/show/53485064-ivy-s-tree?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_13

Animal Person by Alexander MacLeod
goodreads.com/book/show/57693577-animal-person?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13



Mystery guest: Arunava Sinha
Arunava’s website: arunavasinha.in
Follow Arunava:
-on Instagram: @arunavasinha
-on Twitter: @arunava


Khwabnama by Akhteruzzaman Elias
Arunava Sinha (Translator)
goodreads.com/book/show/58367739-khwabnama?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=kStzzZjYYf&rank=1
I read the opening of the novel starting at 14:53 here: youtu.be/Z51LwX1Bz8w?feature=shared

Hospital by Sanya Rushdi
Arunava Sinha (Translator)
goodreads.com/book/show/170108848-hospital

A Touch of Salt by Anita Agnihotri
Arunava Sinha (Translator)
goodreads.com/book/show/219317792-a-touch-of-salt

The Greatest Indian Stories Ever Told by Arunava Sinha (ed.)
Multiple translators
goodreads.com/book/show/178634496-the-greatest-indian-stories-ever-told?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_14

The Greatest Bengali Stories Ever Told by Arunava Sinha (ed.)
Arunava Sinha (Translator)
goodreads.com/book/show/29906274-the-greatest-bengali-stories-ever-told?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_10




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