Sudhakar's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 06 Jun 2025 04:31:02 -0700 60 Sudhakar's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg When We Were Orphans 28923
Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when his mother and father both vanish under suspicious circumstances. Sent to live in England, he grows up to become a renowned detective and, more than twenty years later, returns to Shanghai, where the Sino-Japanese War is raging, to solve the mystery of the disappearances.

The story is straightforward. Its telling is remarkable. Christopher's voice is controlled, detailed, and detached, its precision unsurprising in someone who has devoted his life to the examination of details and the rigors of objective thought. But within the layers of his narrative is slowly revealed what he can't, or won't, see: that his memory, despite what he wants to believe, is not unaffected by his childhood tragedies; that his powers of perception, the heralded clarity of his vision, can be blinding as well as enlightening; and that the simplest desires--a child's for his parents, a man's for understanding--may give rise to the most complicated truths.

A masterful combination of narrative control and soaring imagination, When We Were Orphans is Kazuo Ishiguro at his best.]]> 320 Kazuo Ishiguro 0571225403 Sudhakar 0 currently-reading 3.53 2000 When We Were Orphans
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]]> Stolen (Currency Theatre S) 4611479
Stolen tells the story of five Aboriginal children, who go by the names of Sandy, Ruby, Jimmy, Anne, and Shirley.

Sandy has spent his entire life on the run, never having a set home to live in. Stolen tracks his quest for a place to be, a place where he doesn’t have keep hiding from the government (even though they are no longer after him), and a place he can call home.

Ruby was forced to work as a domestic from a young age, and was driven insane by the abuse of her white masters. In the latter part of the play, she spends a lot of her time mumbling to herself, whilst her family desperately try to help her.

Jimmy was separated from his mother at a very young age, and she spent her entire life looking for him. He spent a lot of time in prison, and on the day he finally got out, he was told about his mother’s search. As he went to meet her, she died, and he committed suicide in anger. Jimmy thought his mother was dead because everytime she writes him a letter the nuns take it and put it in the cabinet.

Anne was removed from her family and placed in a Caucasian family’s home. She was materially happy in this home, a lot happier than many of the other characters, but when her indigenous family tried to meet her, she was caught in crossfire between her two “families”.

Shirley was removed from her parents, and had her children removed from her. She only felt relief, safety, and comfort when her granddaughter was born, and not removed.

Stolen toured extensively throughout Australia. On top of its seven years in Melbourne (starting in 1998), it was also performed in Sydney, Adelaide, regional Victoria, Tasmania, the UK, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. Furthermore, readings were performed in Canada and New York.

Stolen won (along with Aliwa! by Dallas Wimmar) the Kate Challis RAKA award in 1998, on the back of largely successful first season[2][3]

Stolen was studied on the Victorian Certificate of Education English syllabus, and the New South Wales Higher School Certificate syllabus. Many other schools throughout Australia have also placed Stolen on their English curriculum]]> 36 Jane Harrison 0868197971 Sudhakar 3 3.74 2000 Stolen (Currency Theatre S)
author: Jane Harrison
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average rating: 3.74
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead]]> 59366182 In this “fun, page-turner of a novel” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that’s perfect for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, a morbidly anxious young woman stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church and soon finds herself obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death.

Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she’s there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace.

In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish tower in her crumbling apartment, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace’s old friend. She can’t bear to ignore the kindly old woman who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can’t bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace’s death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence.

With a “kindhearted heroine we all need right now” (Courtney Maum, New York Times bestselling author), Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a crackling and “delightfully weird reminder that we will one day turn to dust and that yes, this is depressing, but it’s also what makes life beautiful” (Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl).]]> 256 Emily R. Austin 198216736X Sudhakar 0 currently-reading 3.84 2021 Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
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]]> Twelfth Night 1625 Twelfth Night plays with love and power. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke (or Count) Orsino. Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek.

Onto this scene arrive the twins Viola and Sebastian; caught in a shipwreck, each thinks the other has drowned. Viola disguises herself as a male page and enters Orsino’s service. Orsino sends her as his envoy to Olivia—only to have Olivia fall in love with the messenger. The play complicates, then wonderfully untangles, these relationships.]]> 272 William Shakespeare 0743482778 Sudhakar 4 3.97 1602 Twelfth Night
author: William Shakespeare
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average rating: 3.97
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[God of Fury (Legacy of Gods, #5)]]> 213775782 From USA Today bestselling author Rina Kent comes an MM college romance.

I’m not attracted to men.
Or so I thought before I slammed into Nikolai Sokolov.
A mafia heir, a notorious bastard, and a violent monster.
An ill-fated meeting puts me in his path.
And just like that, he has his sights set on me.
A quiet artist, a golden boy, and his enemy’s twin brother.
He doesn’t seem to care that the odds are stacked against us.
In fact, he sets out to break my steel-like control and blur my limits.
I thought my biggest worry was being noticed by Nikolai.
I’m learning the hard way that being wanted by this beautiful nightmare is much worse.

This book can be read on its own, but for a better understanding of the world, you might want to start with God of Malice.]]> 624 Rina Kent 1464237409 Sudhakar 0 currently-reading 4.47 2023 God of Fury (Legacy of Gods, #5)
author: Rina Kent
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average rating: 4.47
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]]> The Poet X 35396841 Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth.

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.

But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about.

With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can’t stop thinking about performing her poems.

Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.]]> 357 Elizabeth Acevedo 0062662805 Sudhakar 5 4.46 2018 The Poet X
author: Elizabeth Acevedo
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.46
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rating: 5
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]]> The Baltimore Waltz 244242 Book by Paula Vogel 72 Paula Vogel 0822213591 Sudhakar 0 currently-reading 3.83 1992 The Baltimore Waltz
author: Paula Vogel
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average rating: 3.83
book published: 1992
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]]> How I Learned to Drive 141658 58 Paula Vogel 082221623X Sudhakar 5 3.93 1997 How I Learned to Drive
author: Paula Vogel
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1997
rating: 5
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A part of me just died and a part of me slightly lived after reading this.
]]> Anna Karenina 15823480 Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his intense imaginative insight to create some of the most memorable characters in all of literature. Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic consequences. Levin is a reflection of Tolstoy himself, often expressing the author's own views and convictions.

Throughout, Tolstoy points no moral, merely inviting us not to judge but to watch. As Rosemary Edmonds comments, 'He leaves the shifting patterns of the kaleidoscope to bring home the meaning of the brooding words following the title, 'Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.]]> 964 Leo Tolstoy 0345803922 Sudhakar 0 currently-reading 4.11 1878 Anna Karenina
author: Leo Tolstoy
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average rating: 4.11
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]]> Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 2 42264867 TRIAL BY FIRE

Join Coco as she continues her spellbinding journey of magic and discovery!

After traveling to the mystical township of Kalhn with her new master to buy a casting wand, a strange, masked witch transports Coco and her three sister apprentices to an eerily quiet city. But they soon find out that they're not alone, and they encounter a ferocious dragon! Do these fledgling witches have what it takes to defeat the fire-breathing beast, or will their plans and lives go up in flames?!]]> 190 Kamome Shirahama 1632368048 Sudhakar 0 currently-reading 4.45 2017 Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 2
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average rating: 4.45
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]]> Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1 40893782 A TOUCH OF MAGIC

In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: She wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch…until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she’s never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody “knows” might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem…]]> 204 Kamome Shirahama 163236770X Sudhakar 3 4.45 2017 Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1
author: Kamome Shirahama
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2017
rating: 3
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]]> The Garden Party 25167837 'They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it.' A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of their garden party. As daughter Laura takes the reins on party preparations the news of a neighbour's demise casts a cloud over the host and threatens the entire celebration.]]> Katherine Mansfield Sudhakar 5 3.70 1922 The Garden Party
author: Katherine Mansfield
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average rating: 3.70
book published: 1922
rating: 5
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Such a lovely, thought-provoking story. The prose was beautiful indeed.
]]> Fraternity 60310690 A queer, dark academia YA about a mysterious boarding school, a brotherhood that must stay in the shadows, and an ancient evil that could tear it all apart.

In the fall of 1991, Zooey Orson transfers to the Blackfriars School for Boys hoping for a fresh start following a scandal at his last school. However, he quickly learns that he isn’t the only student keeping a secret. Before he knows it, he’s fallen in with a group of boys who all share the same secret, one which they can only express openly within the safety of the clandestine gatherings of the Vicious Circle––the covert club for gay students going back decades. But when the boys unwittingly happen upon the headmaster’s copy of an arcane occult text, they unleash an eldritch secret so terrible, it threatens to consume them all.

A queer paranormal story set during the still-raging AIDS crisis, Fraternity examines a time not so long ago when a secret brotherhood lurked in the shadows. What would Zooey and his friends do to protect their found family?]]> 368 Andy Mientus 141975470X Sudhakar 0 currently-reading 4.05 2022 Fraternity
author: Andy Mientus
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average rating: 4.05
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]]> <![CDATA[City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)]]> 35403058
Ever since Cass almost drowned (okay, she did drown, but she doesn't like to think about it), she can pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead...and enter the world of spirits. Her best friend is even a ghost.

So things are already pretty strange. But they're about to get much stranger...]]> 272 Victoria Schwab 1338111035 Sudhakar 4 3.87 2018 City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)
author: Victoria Schwab
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> Madame Bovary 2175 329 Gustave Flaubert 0192840398 Sudhakar 0 currently-reading 3.70 1877 Madame Bovary
author: Gustave Flaubert
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average rating: 3.70
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)]]> 1 652 J.K. Rowling Sudhakar 5 I'm taken aback by how much I've learned this time. A depressing installation of HP.]]> 4.57 2005 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
author: J.K. Rowling
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average rating: 4.57
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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Yet again
I'm taken aback by how much I've learned this time. A depressing installation of HP.
]]> Mansfield Park 45032 488 Jane Austen Sudhakar 4 This novel grew on me.. 3.86 1814 Mansfield Park
author: Jane Austen
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average rating: 3.86
book published: 1814
rating: 4
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This novel grew on me..
]]> Swimming in the Monsoon Sea 1443203 Othello and he is learning to type at Uncle Lucky’s tropical fish business. Then, like an unexpected monsoon, his cousin arrives from Canada and Amrith’s ordered life is storm-tossed. He finds himself falling in love with the Canadian boy. Othello, with its powerful theme of disastrous jealousy, is the backdrop to the drama in which Amrith finds himself immersed.

Shyam Selvadurai’s brilliant novels, Funny Boy and Cinnamon Gardens, have garnered him international acclaim. In this, his first young adult novel, he explores first love with clarity, humor and compassion.]]> 274 Shyam Selvadurai 0887768342 Sudhakar 4 3.74 2005 Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
author: Shyam Selvadurai
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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Interesting. There was potential for more tho.
]]> Conversations with Friends 32187419 A sharply intelligent novel about two college students and the strange, unexpected connection they forge with a married couple.

Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed, and darkly observant. A college student and aspiring writer, she devotes herself to a life of the mind--and to the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi, her best friend and comrade-in-arms. Lovers at school, the two young women now perform spoken-word poetry together in Dublin, where a journalist named Melissa spots their potential. Drawn into Melissa's orbit, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband. Private property, Frances believes, is a cultural evil--and Nick, a bored actor who never quite lived up to his potential, looks like patriarchy made flesh. But however amusing their flirtation seems at first, it gives way to a strange intimacy neither of them expect. As Frances tries to keep her life in check, her relationships increasingly resist her control: with Nick, with her difficult and unhappy father, and finally even with Bobbi. Desperate to reconcile herself to the desires and vulnerabilities of her body, Frances's intellectual certainties begin to yield to something new: a painful and disorienting way of living from moment to moment.

Written with gem-like precision and probing intelligence, Conversations With Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth."]]> 304 Sally Rooney 0451499077 Sudhakar 5 3.74 2017 Conversations with Friends
author: Sally Rooney
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average rating: 3.74
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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This book is incredibly sad and it foreshadows the future of romance and relationships.
]]> <![CDATA[Beautiful World, Where Are You]]> 75555793 *The Sunday Times and Global number one bestseller*
*Winner of Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards*
*A Book of the Year in The Times, the Guardian, the Irish Times and the Financial Times*

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.

Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young - but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they worry about sex and friendship and the times they live in. Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?]]> 337 Sally Rooney 0571365442 Sudhakar 4 3.49 2021 Beautiful World, Where Are You
author: Sally Rooney
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.49
book published: 2021
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them]]> 41899 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them resides on almost every wizarding household in the country. Now, for a limited period only, Muggles too have the chance to discover where the Quintaped lives, what the Puffskein eats, and why it is best not to leave milk out for a Knarl.

Proceeds from the sale of this book will go to improving and saving the lives of children around the world, which means that the dollars and Galleons you exchange for it will do magic beyond the powers of any wizard. If you feel that this is insufficient reason to part with your money, I can only hope most sincerel that passing wizards feel more charitable if they ever see you being attacked by a Manticore.

-Albus Dumbledore

]]> 128 Newt Scamander 0439321603 Sudhakar 5 3.95 2001 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
author: Newt Scamander
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2001
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Hogwarts Library, #3)]]> 3950967
Additional notes for each story penned by Professor Albus Dumbledore will be enjoyed by Muggles and wizards alike, as the Professor muses on the morals illuminated by the tales, and reveals snippets of information about life at Hogwarts.

A uniquely magical volume, with illustrations by the author, J. K. Rowling, that will be treasured for years to come.]]> 105 J.K. Rowling 0747599874 Sudhakar 5 Goosebumps!! 4.03 2008 The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Hogwarts Library, #3)
author: J.K. Rowling
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average rating: 4.03
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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Goosebumps!!
]]> Getting It 94061 Queer Eye, a show where five gay dudes gave some grungy straight guy a makeover -- plucking his nose hairs, redecorating his apartment, and teaching him to bake a quiche -- so he could confidently propose marriage to his girlfriend and she'd tell him "yes." Which, of course, she did. On TV the guy always gets the girl.

As Carlos watched, he recalled Sal, the supposedly gay guy at school. It was then that the idea first popped into his brain: If Sal truly were queer...could he possibly help Carlos?...Not to propose to Roxy, of course -- at least not yet -- but to get her to maybe like him?]]> 224 Alex Sanchez 141690896X Sudhakar 4 I have so many thoughts on this book. But I really love the execution. Early 2000s books are always cool.]]> 3.79 2006 Getting It
author: Alex Sanchez
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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4.75*
I have so many thoughts on this book. But I really love the execution. Early 2000s books are always cool.
]]> Everything, Everything 18692431
But then one day, a moving truck arrives. New next door neighbors. I look out the window, and I see him. He’s tall, lean and wearing all black—black t-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly. I want to learn everything about him, and I do. I learn that he is funny and fierce. I learn that his eyes are Atlantic Ocean-blue and that his vice is stealing silverware. I learn that when I talk to him, my whole world opens up, and I feel myself starting to change—starting to want things. To want out of my bubble. To want everything, everything the world has to offer.

Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster.]]> 312 Nicola Yoon 0553496646 Sudhakar 4 3.96 2015 Everything, Everything
author: Nicola Yoon
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2015
rating: 4
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Quite a unique and interesting book. I'm glad I finally picked it up.
]]> In Memoriam 59948520 A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war.

It's 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. News of the heroic deaths of their friends only makes the war more exciting.

Gaunt, half German, is busy fighting his own private battle--an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, the glamorous, charming Ellwood--without a clue that Ellwood is pining for him in return. When Gaunt's family asks him to enlist to forestall the anti-German sentiment they face, Gaunt does so immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings for Ellwood. To Gaunt's horror, Ellwood rushes to join him at the front, and the rest of their classmates soon follow. Now death surrounds them in all its grim reality, often inches away, and no one knows who will be next.

An epic tale of both the devastating tragedies of war and the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip, In Memoriam is a breathtaking debut.]]> 382 Alice Winn 0593534565 Sudhakar 5 “I know you’re fine,” said Ellwood, frowning. “But are you all right?”
Banger quote. ]]> 4.50 2023 In Memoriam
author: Alice Winn
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average rating: 4.50
book published: 2023
rating: 5
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This book has so much to offer to the reader. I cannot believe this is a debut novel. Alice Winn has me excited for her subsequent releases. She captured emotions, war, the aftermath and peace so beautifully. The romance was angsty and real. REAL. It did not feel like a corny trap. Alice is definitely going to be hugeee.
“I know you’re fine,” said Ellwood, frowning. “But are you all right?”
Banger quote.
]]> セブンデイズ Friday → Sunday 7421244 180 Venio Tachibana 4813051936 Sudhakar 0 to-read 4.19 2009 セブンデイズ Friday → Sunday
author: Venio Tachibana
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.19
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]]> <![CDATA[Seven Days: Monday → Thursday (Seven Days, #1)]]> 8433044 200 Venio Tachibana 1569700664 Sudhakar 0 to-read 4.13 2007 Seven Days: Monday → Thursday (Seven Days, #1)
author: Venio Tachibana
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2007
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]]> <![CDATA[The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue]]> 50623864
Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.

But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.]]> 448 V.E. Schwab 0765387565 Sudhakar 5 4.16 2020 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
author: V.E. Schwab
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2020
rating: 5
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I will take this book to my grave.
]]> Hills Like White Elephants 13239950 A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems.

Hills Like White Elephants is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, which was first published in the 1927 collection Men Without Women. Here, a man and his girlfriend wait for a train to Madrid at station in rural Spain, the almost casual nature of their conversation evading the true emotional depth of what’s happening between the two of them.

This story is considered to be among Ernest Hemingway’s best short fiction, showcasing the author’s powerful ability to strip writing down to its bare bones and allow the reader’s imagination to fill in the subtext.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of these are considered classics of American literature.]]> 6 Ernest Hemingway Sudhakar 3 3.86 1927 Hills Like White Elephants
author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1927
rating: 3
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]]> Araby 8332752 “Our shouts echoed in the silent street. The career of our play brought us through the dark muddy lanes behind the houses where we ran the gauntlet of the rough tribes from the cottages, to the back doors of the dark dripping gardens where odours arose from the ashpits, to the dark odorous stables where a coachman smoothed and combed the horse or shook music from the buckled harness.]]> 25 James Joyce Sudhakar 5 3.65 1914 Araby
author: James Joyce
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.65
book published: 1914
rating: 5
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]]> Step Bully 61431879 Alternate cover edition of ASIN B0B4MSFVKT


Of all the people in the world, I had to be attracted to the one person I hate…

Ash Summers is the most beautiful guy I’ve ever seen. He’s also a total d*ck, and I hate him more than anything. That feeling is mutual, by the way, as he does nothing but torment me.

Oh, and did I mention he’s my stepbrother?

Messing with Ash is all fun and games until our parents force us to room together during our final year at college. Sharing an apartment with him only makes me hate him more.

Until it doesn’t. When Ash touches me, it’s impossible to remember why I dislike him so much. All I can think of is that I need him to do it again…and again.

Every encounter with Ash teaches me a little about myself and my true desires, but it also leaves an emptiness inside me that I don’t understand.

Am I the only one feeling things? Or is my big, bad stepbrother just as desperate for a connection as I am?

Step Bully is an enemies-to-lovers MM romance between stepbrothers who discover that the line between hate and love is a thin one. Expect super hot, slightly kinky encounters that evolve into a total schmoop fest when these two finally get their act together.]]> 326 Willow Dixon Sudhakar 4 Very entertaining. 3.81 2022 Step Bully
author: Willow Dixon
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average rating: 3.81
book published: 2022
rating: 4
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Very entertaining.
]]> The Story of an Hour 2267195 32 Kate Chopin 078915479X Sudhakar 5 4.08 1894 The Story of an Hour
author: Kate Chopin
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1894
rating: 5
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]]> The Yellow Wall-Paper 286957
In a private journal, the woman records her growing obsession with the “horrid” wallpaper. Its strange pattern mutates in the moonlight, revealing what appears to be a human figure in the design. With nothing else to occupy her mind, the woman resolves to unlock the mystery of the wallpaper. Her quest, however, leads not to the truth, but into the darkest depths of madness.

A condemnation of the patriarchy, The Yellow Wallpaper explores with terrifying economy the oppression, grave misunderstanding, and willful dismissal of women in late nineteenth-century society.

First published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine.

Excerpt:
Out of another I get a lovely view of the bay and a little private wharf belonging to the estate. There is a beautiful shaded lane that runs down there from the house. I always fancy I see people walking in these numerous paths and arbors, but John has cautioned me not to give way to fancy in the least. He says that with my imaginative power and habit of story-making a nervous weakness like mine is sure to lead to all manner of excited fancies, and that I ought to use my will and good sense to check the tendency. So I try.]]> 62 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1558611584 Sudhakar 4 4.11 1892 The Yellow Wall-Paper
author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1892
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong, Vol. 1]]> 58701909
At least, that's what Shen Yuan, online alias "Peerless Cucumber," believes as he finishes reading the final chapter in Proud Immortal Demon Way. But when a combination of rage and a poor meal choice leads to his death, Shen Yuan finds himself reborn into the world of the web novel, in the body of Shen Qingqiu—the beautiful but cruel teacher to a young Luo Binghe. Although as Shen Qingqiu, he now has incredible power and abilities as a cultivator, he’s destined to be horrifically punished for crimes against the protagonist, so this new Shen Qingqiu has only one course of action: get into Luo Binghe’s good graces before the young man’s rise to power. That’s the only way he’ll escape the awful fate of a true scum villain!]]> 352 Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù 164827921X Sudhakar 0 to-read 4.39 2014 The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong, Vol. 1
author: Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> The Secret Garden 2998
Mary Lennox, a spoiled, ill-tempered, and unhealthy child, comes to live with her reclusive uncle in Misselthwaite Manor on England’s Yorkshire moors after the death of her parents. There she meets a hearty housekeeper and her spirited brother, a dour gardener, a cheerful robin, and her wilful, hysterical, and sickly cousin, Master Colin, whose wails she hears echoing through the house at night.

With the help of the robin, Mary finds the door to a secret garden, neglected and hidden for years. When she decides to restore the garden in secret, the story becomes a charming journey into the places of the heart, where faith restores health, flowers refresh the spirit, and the magic of the garden, coming to life anew, brings health to Colin and happiness to Mary.]]> 331 Frances Hodgson Burnett 0517189607 Sudhakar 4 4.16 1911 The Secret Garden
author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1911
rating: 4
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Such a wonderful little classic. A healthy story. Savoured every bit of it :)
]]> Kate in Waiting 48579405 From bestselling YA rom-com queen Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Love, Simon), comes a new novel about daring to step out of the shadows and into the spotlight in love, life and, yes, theatre.

Contrary to popular belief, best friends Kate Garfield and Anderson Walker are not codependent. Carpooling to and from theatre rehearsals? Environmentally sound and efficient. Consulting each other on every single life decision? Basic good judgment. Pining for the same guys from afar? Shared crushes are more fun anyway.

But when Kate and Andy's latest long-distance crush shows up at their school, everything goes off-script. Matt Olsson is talented and sweet, and Kate likes him. She really likes him. The only problem? So does Anderson.

Turns out, communal crushes aren't so fun when real feelings are involved. This one might even bring the curtains down on Kate and Anderson's friendship.]]> 387 Becky Albertalli 0062643835 Sudhakar 4 3.80 2021 Kate in Waiting
author: Becky Albertalli
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2021
rating: 4
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That was so much fun and relatable. If it was Andy's perspective instead this would've been a 5 star book for me. For now it's a 4.5
]]> Young Goodman Brown 562471 48 Nathaniel Hawthorne 1557423628 Sudhakar 3 3.65 1835 Young Goodman Brown
author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.65
book published: 1835
rating: 3
read at: 2024/06/01
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]]> <![CDATA[The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1]]> 85166107 180 Mokumokuren 1975360540 Sudhakar 4 Creepyyy 4.35 2022 The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1
author: Mokumokuren
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2024/05/17
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Creepyyy
]]> Stoner 166997
John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.]]> 292 John Williams 1590171993 Sudhakar 5 4.36 1965 Stoner
author: John Williams
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.36
book published: 1965
rating: 5
read at: 2024/05/13
date added: 2024/05/13
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My all time favourite book now.
]]> Sula 11346 174 Toni Morrison 0452283868 Sudhakar 5 4.05 1973 Sula
author: Toni Morrison
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1973
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)]]> 15196
A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written—Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author’s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma.]]> 159 Art Spiegelman 0394541553 Sudhakar 4 4.39 1986 Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
author: Art Spiegelman
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.39
book published: 1986
rating: 4
read at: 2024/05/11
date added: 2024/05/11
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]]> The Open: Man and Animal 85829 120 Giorgio Agamben 0804747385 Sudhakar 3 4.01 2002 The Open: Man and Animal
author: Giorgio Agamben
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2002
rating: 3
read at: 2024/04/29
date added: 2024/04/29
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]]> <![CDATA[Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)]]> 37506437 Darius doesn't think he'll ever be enough, in America or in Iran.

Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's about to take his first-ever trip to Iran, and it's pretty overwhelming—especially when he's also dealing with clinical depression, a disapproving dad, and a chronically anemic social life. In Iran, he gets to know his ailing but still formidable grandfather, his loving grandmother, and the rest of his mom's family for the first time. And he meets Sohrab, the boy next door who changes everything.

Sohrab makes sure people speak English so Darius can understand what's going on. He gets Darius an Iranian National Football Team jersey that makes him feel like a True Persian for the first time. And he understands that sometimes, best friends don't have to talk. Darius has never had a true friend before, but now he's spending his days with Sohrab playing soccer, eating rosewater ice cream, and sitting together for hours in their special place, a rooftop overlooking the Yazdi skyline.

Sohrab calls him Darioush—the original Persian version of his name—and Darius has never felt more like himself than he does now that he's Darioush to Sohrab. When it's time to go home to America, he'll have to find a way to be Darioush on his own.]]> 316 Adib Khorram 0525552960 Sudhakar 4 4.23 2018 Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
author: Adib Khorram
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2024/04/09
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]]> Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 46041199 A fierce international bestseller that launched Korea’s new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny.

Truly, flawlessly, completely, she became that person.

In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A thirtysomething-year-old “millennial everywoman,” she has recently left her white-collar desk job—in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time—as so many Korean women are expected to do. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women—alive and even dead, both known and unknown to her. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, her discomfited husband sends her to a male psychiatrist.

In a chilling, eerily truncated third-person voice, Jiyoung’s entire life is recounted to the psychiatrist—a narrative infused with disparate elements of frustration, perseverance, and submission. Born in 1982 and given the most common name for Korean baby girls, Jiyoung quickly becomes the unfavored sister to her princeling little brother. Always, her behavior is policed by the male figures around her—from the elementary school teachers who enforce strict uniforms for girls, to the coworkers who install a hidden camera in the women’s restroom and post their photos online. In her father’s eyes, it is Jiyoung’s fault that men harass her late at night; in her husband’s eyes, it is Jiyoung’s duty to forsake her career to take care of him and their child—to put them first.

Jiyoung’s painfully common life is juxtaposed against a backdrop of an advancing Korea, as it abandons “family planning” birth control policies and passes new legislation against gender discrimination. But can her doctor flawlessly, completely cure her, or even discover what truly ails her?

Rendered in minimalist yet lacerating prose, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 sits at the center of our global #MeToo movement and announces the arrival of writer of international significance]]> 163 Cho Nam-Joo 1631496700 Sudhakar 4 4.5<br />Immaculate. 4.17 2016 Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
author: Cho Nam-Joo
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2024/03/17
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4.5
Immaculate.
]]> Mr Salary 34234631 My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all.

Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go. Now they are on the brink of the inevitable.

Sally Rooney is one of the most acclaimed young talents of recent years. With her minute attention to the power dynamics in everyday speech, she builds up sexual tension and throws a deceptively low-key glance at love and death.]]> 33 Sally Rooney 0571351956 Sudhakar 4 3.75 2016 Mr Salary
author: Sally Rooney
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2024/03/07
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]]> <![CDATA[Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)]]> 62047992 The moving international sensation about new beginnings, human connection, and the joy of reading.

Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo, is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books.

Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations. It is the pride and joy of her uncle Satoru, who has devoted his life to the bookshop since his wife Momoko left him five years earlier.

When Takako's boyfriend reveals he's marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle's offer to live rent-free in the tiny room above the shop. Hoping to nurse her broken heart in peace, Takako is surprised to encounter new worlds within the stacks of books lining the Morisaki bookshop.

As summer fades to autumn, Satoru and Takako discover they have more in common than they first thought. The Morisaki bookshop has something to teach them both about life, love, and the healing power of books.]]> 150 Satoshi Yagisawa 0063278677 Sudhakar 2 3.66 2010 Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
author: Satoshi Yagisawa
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2010
rating: 2
read at: 2024/02/21
date added: 2024/02/21
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Not the least bit impactful nor is it enjoyable. Just felt bland.
]]> The Travelling Cat Chronicles 40961230
An instant international bestseller and indie bestseller, The Travelling Cat Chronicles has charmed readers around the world. With simple yet descriptive prose, this novel gives voice to Nana the cat and his owner, Satoru, as they take to the road on a journey with no other purpose than to visit three of Satoru's longtime friends. Or so Nana is led to believe...

With his crooked tail—a sign of good fortune—and adventurous spirit, Nana is the perfect companion for the man who took him in as a stray. And as they travel in a silver van across Japan, with its ever-changing scenery and seasons, they will learn the true meaning of courage and gratitude, of loyalty and love.]]> 281 Hiro Arikawa 0735235244 Sudhakar 5 When i first heard of the phrase 'roller coaster of emotions' i laughed it off thinking how could a person switch up their emotions that quickly. Quite frankly, this book made me feel multiple things at the same time. I almost wished i knew Japanese to read this book in its original form. The last 50 pages was just a cry-fest. The screen got blurry to my tear-filled eyes. I dunno how I will recover from this book.]]> 4.35 2012 The Travelling Cat Chronicles
author: Hiro Arikawa
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2012
rating: 5
read at: 2024/01/20
date added: 2024/01/20
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Dear Reader,
When i first heard of the phrase 'roller coaster of emotions' i laughed it off thinking how could a person switch up their emotions that quickly. Quite frankly, this book made me feel multiple things at the same time. I almost wished i knew Japanese to read this book in its original form. The last 50 pages was just a cry-fest. The screen got blurry to my tear-filled eyes. I dunno how I will recover from this book.
]]> Norwegian Wood 11297
A magnificent blending of the music, the mood, and the ethos that was the sixties with the story of one college student's romantic coming of age, Norwegian Wood brilliantly recaptures a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love.]]> 296 Haruki Murakami 0375704027 Sudhakar 4
Side Note: I don't remember behaving like Watanabe when I was 19 turning 20.]]> 4.01 1987 Norwegian Wood
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1987
rating: 4
read at: 2024/01/19
date added: 2024/01/19
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I'm honestly tongue tied with how I felt about this book. The rating is completely irrelevant. I could give it 0 stars if I could. It's literally a novel about fucked up people. I'm sure fucked up people in real life would really enjoy it. Will I read more Murakami in the future? I'm not sure. But if I want to be sad on purpose, I'd definitely check out more of his works.

Side Note: I don't remember behaving like Watanabe when I was 19 turning 20.
]]> Crush 96259 Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by panic and obsession. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking. In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise Glück hails the “cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, [and] purgatorial recklessness” of Siken’s poems. She notes, “Books of this kind dream big. . . . They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form.”]]> 80 Richard Siken 0300107897 Sudhakar 0 to-read 4.35 2005 Crush
author: Richard Siken
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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]]> Normal People 41057294
A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.

Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.]]> 273 Sally Rooney 1984822179 Sudhakar 5 3.81 2018 Normal People
author: Sally Rooney
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2018
rating: 5
read at: 2024/01/14
date added: 2024/01/14
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I am dead serious when I say this is one of the best books I have ever read. I'm being fr. Like I know I'm going to read this again and again kind of good.
]]> <![CDATA[Heartstopper: Volume Five (Heartstopper, #5)]]> 53344030
Nick and Charlie are very much in love. They've finally said those three little words, and Charlie has almost persuaded his mum to let him sleep over at Nick's house ... But with Nick going off to university next year, is everything about to change?

By Alice Oseman, winner of the YA Book Prize, Heartstopper encompasses all the small moments of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us.

Contains discussions around mental health and eating disorders, and sexual references.]]> 336 Alice Oseman 1444957651 Sudhakar 5
so we are now finally moving into the steamy parts omg.
i cant believe volume 6 is going to be the end of it. i wanted this to be a never ending series T-T.
]]> 4.47 2023 Heartstopper: Volume Five (Heartstopper, #5)
author: Alice Oseman
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2024/01/12
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soooo wholesomeeeeee omgggg

so we are now finally moving into the steamy parts omg.
i cant believe volume 6 is going to be the end of it. i wanted this to be a never ending series T-T.

]]> <![CDATA[The Perks of Being a Wallflower]]> 22628 offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see
what it looks like from the dance floor.

This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of Being A WALLFLOWER

This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that the perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite.

Through Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting coming-of-age story, a powerful novel that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller coaster days known as growing up.

(back cover)]]> 213 Stephen Chbosky Sudhakar 5
xoxo
]]> 4.24 1999 The Perks of Being a Wallflower
author: Stephen Chbosky
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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i read this book about a decade ago when i was in highschool. i admit i didnt quite understand it back then. but now that i revisited, i am so glad that it is now my all time favourite book. this is the book i will gift my nephews and nieces when they come of age. this is the book i will gift my students if i feel like it. this is the book i will gift my colleagues for them to revisit their teenage times. oh how i love this book so much. argh it hurts. charlie i love you so much lil kid. you are genuine and so real, i refuse to believe you are fictional.

xoxo

]]> Small Things Like These 58662236
Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.]]> 128 Claire Keegan 0802158749 Sudhakar 4 A really good first read :)]]> 4.13 2021 Small Things Like These
author: Claire Keegan
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2021
rating: 4
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This story had me thinking and exploring more about the Magdalene laundries. The Irish accent of the narrator from the audiobook was also very fun.
A really good first read :)
]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)]]> 15881
And strike it does. For in Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girls’ bathroom. But then the real trouble begins – someone is turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects… Harry Potter himself!]]> 352 J.K. Rowling Sudhakar 5 4.42 1998 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.42
book published: 1998
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)]]> 61431922 Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders...

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.

But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.

With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.

She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.

Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.

Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die]]> 517 Rebecca Yarros 1649374046 Sudhakar 2
Respectfully,
I'm crying looking at the ratings lol.

DNF'd at about 65%.]]> 4.56 2023 Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
author: Rebecca Yarros
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.56
book published: 2023
rating: 2
read at: 2023/12/31
date added: 2023/12/31
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I've had enough of this book. The writing gives me an ick. Even with the help of an audiobook I couldn't trudge through. The characters are annoying af. I wasn't rooting for a single character. Everything was very predictable and obvious. Violet Sorrengail needs to pick an emotion. She's either horny or angry. Dain was pointless throughout. Xaden! Don't even get me started.

Respectfully,
I'm crying looking at the ratings lol.

DNF'd at about 65%.
]]> <![CDATA[I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)]]> 41473872 An alternate cover edition for 9781338306125 can be found here.

When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low profile in a new school.

But Ben's attempts to survive the last half of senior year unnoticed are thwarted when Nathan Allan, a funny and charismatic student, decides to take Ben under his wing. As Ben and Nathan's friendship grows, their feelings for each other begin to change, and what started as a disastrous turn of events looks like it might just be a chance to start a happier new life.

At turns heartbreaking and joyous, I Wish You All the Best is both a celebration of life, friendship, and love, and a shining example of hope in the face of adversity.]]> 329 Mason Deaver Sudhakar 4

Hi
2023 me
I absolutely hate this book. The concept is bs. Don't even think about reading it]]> 4.15 2019 I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)
author: Mason Deaver
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2019/07/08
date added: 2023/12/20
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It's a weird kind of book to be honest........i love the romance and it is awesome to know about the struggles of a non-binary teen....i love Nathan a lottttt. He is so lovable and awesome.....i just dunno y but i love the siblings dynamic. Give this book a try....!


Hi
2023 me
I absolutely hate this book. The concept is bs. Don't even think about reading it
]]> Pyre 29861389
With spare, powerful prose, Murugan masterfully conjures a terrifying vision of intolerance in this devastating tale of innocent young love pitted against chilling savagery.]]> 200 Perumal Murugan 0670087750 Sudhakar 3 Truly heartbreaking :( 3.89 2013 Pyre
author: Perumal Murugan
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2013
rating: 3
read at: 2023/12/11
date added: 2023/12/11
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Truly heartbreaking :(
]]> With the Fire on High 38739562
Still, she knows she doesn’t have enough time for her school’s new culinary arts class, doesn’t have the money for the class’s trip to Spain—and shouldn’t still be dreaming of someday working in a real kitchen. But even with all the rules she has for her life—and all the rules everyone expects her to play by—once Emoni starts cooking, her only real choice is to let her talent break free.]]> 395 Elizabeth Acevedo 0062662856 Sudhakar 5 4.18 2019 With the Fire on High
author: Elizabeth Acevedo
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2023/11/25
date added: 2023/11/25
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If this has a sequel, I will definitely be reading. :)
]]> Why I Am Not a Hindu 1230699 164 Kancha Ilaiah 8185604827 Sudhakar 4 3.82 2001 Why I Am Not a Hindu
author: Kancha Ilaiah
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2001
rating: 4
read at: 2023/11/20
date added: 2023/11/20
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Honestly, I think his argument is valid at the time of publishing this. Although he does come off as Hinduphobic most of the times, in his line of argument it is valid and understandable. I may have change of views in the future after reading more related to the same.
]]> Lessons in Chemistry 58065033 390 Bonnie Garmus Sudhakar 5 4.23 2022 Lessons in Chemistry
author: Bonnie Garmus
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2023/11/16
date added: 2023/11/16
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Best book I've read in a while.
]]> Crying in H Mart 54814676
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother’s particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother’s tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the east coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, performing gigs with her fledgling band – and meeting the man who would become her husband – her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live.

It was her mother’s diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.

Vivacious, lyrical and honest, Michelle Zauner’s voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.]]> 243 Michelle Zauner 0525657746 Sudhakar 4 4.25 2021 Crying in H Mart
author: Michelle Zauner
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2023/11/08
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]]> When Breath Becomes Air 25899336
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a na?ve medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life" into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.

What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.

Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. "I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything," he wrote. "Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: 'I can't go on. I'll go on.'" When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.]]> 208 Paul Kalanithi 0812988418 Sudhakar 4 But I have not read the preface actually.]]> 4.41 2016 When Breath Becomes Air
author: Paul Kalanithi
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2023/10/19
date added: 2023/10/19
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It's a 3.5 for me. I got really sad towards the end :(.
But I have not read the preface actually.
]]> Elantris (Elantris, #1) 68427
Arelon's new capital, Kae, crouches in the shadow of Elantris. Princess Sarene of Teod arrives for a marriage of state with Crown Prince Raoden, hoping—based on their correspondence—to also find love. She finds instead that Raoden has died and she is considered his widow. Both Teod and Arelon are under threat as the last remaining holdouts against the imperial ambitions of the ruthless religious fanatics of Fjordell. So Sarene decides to use her new status to counter the machinations of Hrathen, a Fjordell high priest who has come to Kae to convert Arelon and claim it for his emperor and his god.

But neither Sarene nor Hrathen suspect the truth about Prince Raoden. Stricken by the same curse that ruined Elantris, Raoden was secretly exiled by his father to the dark city. His struggle to help the wretches trapped there begins a series of events that will bring hope to Arelon, and perhaps reveal the secret of Elantris itself.

A rare epic fantasy that doesn't recycle the classics and that is a complete and satisfying story in one volume, Elantris is fleet and fun, full of surprises and characters to care about. It's also the wonderful debut of a welcome new star in the constellation of fantasy.]]> 638 Brandon Sanderson 0765350378 Sudhakar 4 What a journey!!!! 4.16 2005 Elantris (Elantris, #1)
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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What a journey!!!!
]]> Verity 59344312
Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of what really happened the day her daughter died.

Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen's feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife's words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue to love her.]]> 336 Colleen Hoover 153872474X Sudhakar 4 4.29 2018 Verity
author: Colleen Hoover
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2023/08/09
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I am just so shocked bruh. What a weird book I swear.
]]> <![CDATA[Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)]]> 23437156 Alternate cover of ISBN 9781627792127

Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone...

A convict with a thirst for revenge

A sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wager

A runaway with a privileged past

A spy known as the Wraith

A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums

A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes

Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz’s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don’t kill each other first.]]> 480 Leigh Bardugo 1627792120 Sudhakar 4 Mixed feelings 4.47 2015 Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
author: Leigh Bardugo
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2023/08/05
date added: 2023/08/05
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Mixed feelings
]]> Us 34536946
Inspired by his wife, artist and wedding photographer Curtis Wiklund sketched a new drawing every day for a year. The result is this collection of adorable illustrations depicting the tender, true moments the couple shares.?From winter walks to end-of-day cuddles,?inside jokes to impromptu forts, this?dreamy art?has already captured the hearts of thousands of fans around the world. Now in book form,? Us ?delights as a gift and a keepsake.]]> 112 Curtis Wiklund 1449483461 Sudhakar 4 cuteee 3.66 2017 Us
author: Curtis Wiklund
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2023/08/01
date added: 2023/08/01
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cuteee
]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)]]> 2
Harry has had enough. He is beginning to think he must do something, anything, to change his situation, when the summer holidays come to an end in a very dramatic fashion. What Harry is about to discover in his new year at Hogwarts will turn his world upside down...]]> 912 J.K. Rowling Sudhakar 5 4.50 2003 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2003
rating: 5
read at: 2023/07/26
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]]> Circe 35959740
Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts, and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.

But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from or with the mortals she has come to love.]]> 393 Madeline Miller 0316556343 Sudhakar 5 4.22 2018 Circe
author: Madeline Miller
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2018
rating: 5
read at: 2023/07/26
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]]> <![CDATA[The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland]]> 1349264 The second edition covers recent developments in literary and cultural theory and has the following
* additional or extended material on post-colonial writers, and the literature of the 1990s
* an expanded Timeline with Booker, Whitbread, and Nobel prize winners
* additions to the well-received language notes which include 'Shakespeare's language', 'Reading the language of theatre and drama', 'New modes of modern writing' and 'International and rotten Englishes'
* An expanded Timeline with Booker, Whitbread, and Nobel prize winners.]]> 570 Ronald Carter 0415243181 Sudhakar 4 3.93 1997 The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland
author: Ronald Carter
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1997
rating: 4
read at: 2023/06/14
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]]> Giovanni’s Room 406235 178 James Baldwin Sudhakar 4 4.40 1956 Giovanni’s Room
author: James Baldwin
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.40
book published: 1956
rating: 4
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There are so many emotions coarsing through my heart and my blood. I am not sure what to make of this book. My hatred for the main character is unfathomable. I just dont even know what to say except that I loved Giovanni with all my heart. He deserved so much better. This story is just so unfair. :(((((
]]> Lie With Me 40539136 The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress/writer Molly Ringwald.

We drive at high speed along back roads, through woods, vineyards, and oat fields. The bike smells like gasoline and makes a lot of noise, and sometimes I’m frightened when the wheels slip on the gravel on the dirt road, but the only thing that matters is that I’m holding on to him, that I’m holding on to him outside.

Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back at the relationship he’s never forgotten, a hidden affair with a gorgeous boy named Thomas during their last year of high school. Without ever acknowledging they know each other in the halls, they steal time to meet in secret, carrying on a passionate, world-altering affair.

Dazzlingly rendered in English by Ringwald in her first-ever translation, Besson’s powerfully moving coming-of-age story captures the eroticism and tenderness of first love—and the heartbreaking passage of time.]]> 149 Philippe Besson 1501197878 Sudhakar 5

just finished reading again im gonna cry]]> 4.25 2017 Lie With Me
author: Philippe Besson
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2023/01/18
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Broke my heart. But worth breaking my heart. ??


just finished reading again im gonna cry
]]> Brother 36672820 Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and simmering violence of the summer of 1991.

With shimmering prose and mesmerizing precision, David Chariandy takes us inside the lives of Michael and Francis. They are the sons of Trinidadian immigrants, their father has disappeared and their mother works double, sometimes triple shifts so her boys might fulfill the elusive promise of their adopted home.

Coming of age in The Park, a cluster of town houses and leaning concrete towers in the disparaged outskirts of a sprawling city, Michael and Francis battle against the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront them as young men of black and brown ancestry -- teachers stream them into general classes; shopkeepers see them only as thieves; and strangers quicken their pace when the brothers are behind them. Always Michael and Francis escape into the cool air of the Rouge Valley, a scar of green wilderness that cuts through their neighbourhood, where they are free to imagine better lives for themselves.

Propelled by the pulsing beats and styles of hip hop, Francis, the older of the two brothers, dreams of a future in music. Michael's dreams are of Aisha, the smartest girl in their high school whose own eyes are firmly set on a life elsewhere. But the bright hopes of all three are violently, irrevocably thwarted by a tragic shooting, and the police crackdown and suffocating suspicion that follow.

With devastating emotional force David Chariandy, a unique and exciting voice in Canadian literature, crafts a heartbreaking and timely story about the profound love that exists between brothers and the senseless loss of lives cut short with the shot of a gun.]]> 192 David Chariandy 1635572045 Sudhakar 5 3.96 2017 Brother
author: David Chariandy
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2023/01/16
date added: 2023/01/16
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This book is beautifully written. I like how it is unobtrusively indirect yet so profound. The writing style is to die for. This is the kind of book that after finishing you would even read acknowledgements. You would want to explore more about the author and read their other works. I felt every passage in this book. The brevity of the word choice and the way the story works as a stream of consciousness is something remarkable to remember about the book. To put it simply, this is the story of a small family of immigrants from Trinidad living in Canada and trying to make a living. This is a story of a strong brotherhood. As the story interweaves through their life, we get introduced to new characters who somehow contribute a lot to the story. It was indeed a painful read as I was rooting for these characters throughout. I love this book so much and I will hopefully read it again very soon.
]]> <![CDATA[The Dangerous Art of Blending In]]> 32797600
Tired, isolated, scared—Evan’s only escape is drawing in an abandoned church that feels as lonely as he is. And, yes, he kissed one guy over the summer. But it’s his best friend Henry who’s now proving to be irresistible. It’s Henry who suddenly seems interested in being more than friends. And it’s Henry who makes him believe that he’s more than his mother’s harsh words and terrifying abuse. But as things with Henry heat up, and his mother’s abuse escalates, Evan has to decide how to find his voice in a world where he has survived so long by avoiding attention at all costs.]]> 315 Angelo Surmelis 0062659006 Sudhakar 3 3.98 2018 The Dangerous Art of Blending In
author: Angelo Surmelis
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2023/01/15
date added: 2023/01/15
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This book felt very new tbh. The child abuse and bullying was very severe but felt super real. I find it hard to really to read some of it. The main character Evan felt very real and raw. I remember most of the characters. Henry is such a sweet heart. I absolutely love him and his energy. All in all a really good book :)
]]> Felix Ever After 45359713
Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many—Black, queer, and transgender—to ever get his own happily-ever-after.

When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages—after publicly posting Felix’s deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned—Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. What he didn’t count on: his catfish scenario landing him in a quasi–love triangle....

But as he navigates his complicated feelings, Felix begins a journey of questioning and self-discovery that helps redefine his most important relationship: how he feels about himself.

Felix Ever After is an honest and layered story about identity, falling in love, and recognizing the love you deserve.]]> 368 Kacen Callender 0062820273 Sudhakar 4 &lt;3 4.38 2020 Felix Ever After
author: Kacen Callender
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2020/07/02
date added: 2023/01/13
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<3
]]> Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1) 10429045 I have a curse
I have a gift

I am a monster
I'm more than human

My touch is lethal
My touch is power

I am their weapon
I will fight back

Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days.

The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.

The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war—and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now.

Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.]]> 338 Tahereh Mafi 0062085484 Sudhakar 4 3.86 2011 Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
author: Tahereh Mafi
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2022/12/24
date added: 2022/12/24
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]]> Convenience Store Woman 38357895
A brilliant depiction of an unusual psyche and a world hidden from view, Convenience Store Woman is an ironic and sharp-eyed look at contemporary work culture and the pressures to conform, as well as a charming and completely fresh portrait of an unforgettable heroine.]]> 163 Sayaka Murata Sudhakar 4 3.70 2016 Convenience Store Woman
author: Sayaka Murata
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2022/12/10
date added: 2022/12/10
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I loved it. I just dunno why but I loved it.
]]> <![CDATA[Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)]]> 58763686
I can manipulate the emotions of anyone who lets me.
I will make you hurt, make you cry, make you laugh and sigh.
But my words don't affect him. Especially not when I plead for him to leave.
He's always there, watching and waiting.
And I can never look away.
Not when I want him to come closer.


The Shadow

I didn't mean to fall in love.
But now that I have, I can't stay away.
I'm mesmerized by her smile, by her eyes, and the way she moves.
The way she undresses...
I'll keep watching and waiting. Until I can make her mine.
And once she is, I'll never let her go.
Not even when she begs me to.]]> 583 H.D. Carlton Sudhakar 2 3.95 2021 Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
author: H.D. Carlton
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2021
rating: 2
read at: 2022/12/09
date added: 2022/12/09
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I dont even know what to type here. There is so much to talk about this book. SO FUCKIN DISTURBING. Like WTF. I cannot fathom the fact that Zade is a fucking rapist but is heavenly glorified in this book. I hate myself for even giving this book a chance.
]]> <![CDATA[Orange, Vol. 5 (Orange [オレンジ] / Orange: Future [Orange -未来-], #5)]]> 30845939 240 Ichigo Takano 841618822X Sudhakar 4 A marvellous ending 4.43 2015 Orange, Vol. 5 (Orange [オレンジ] / Orange: Future [Orange -未来-], #5)
author: Ichigo Takano
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2022/07/23
date added: 2022/07/23
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A marvellous ending
]]> orange Vol. 4 33120678 204 Ichigo Takano Sudhakar 4 4.34 2015 orange Vol. 4
author: Ichigo Takano
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2022/07/20
date added: 2022/07/20
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]]> Orange Vol. 3 32947305 200 Ichigo Takano Sudhakar 4 4.5/5 <br />im so scared 4.34 2014 Orange Vol. 3
author: Ichigo Takano
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2022/07/16
date added: 2022/07/16
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4.5/5
im so scared
]]> Orange, Vol. 2 32868111 384 Ichigo Takano Sudhakar 5 this is a lott to take :(((((
I am in love. It is just the second volume. I am already crying. It is too much to take. Goddd save meeeee. ]]> 4.36 2012 Orange, Vol. 2
author: Ichigo Takano
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2012
rating: 5
read at: 2022/07/16
date added: 2022/07/16
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NAURRRR
this is a lott to take :(((((
I am in love. It is just the second volume. I am already crying. It is too much to take. Goddd save meeeee.
]]> Orange, Vol. 1 (Orange, #1) 53204279
Incluye lámina postal y primer capítulo de Astronauta en primavera.]]> 229 Ichigo Takano Sudhakar 5 4.18 2012 Orange, Vol. 1 (Orange, #1)
author: Ichigo Takano
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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date added: 2022/07/16
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Orange is an amazing manga. I was hooked from page 1. The story is interesting. The characters are so soulful and heartwarming. I was so close to tearing up in the first voulme itself.
]]> sick 25657046 もちろん彼女にも不自由したことはない。
気の置けない友人も多く、まさに花のキャンパスライフを謳歌中。
……そのはずなのに、同じゼミの岸先辈(コミュ障)に嫌がらせをすることが、楽しい日课になりつつあって??????。
俺はいったい何をしているんだ―――――!?闭闭> 192 Tomo Kurahashi 4801952267 Sudhakar 4 3.56 2015 sick
author: Tomo Kurahashi
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2022/07/16
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]]> <![CDATA[Death Note, Vol. 7: Zero (Death Note, #7)]]> 13621 211 Tsugumi Ohba 1421506289 Sudhakar 3 4.44 2005 Death Note, Vol. 7: Zero (Death Note, #7)
author: Tsugumi Ohba
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 2022/07/07
date added: 2022/07/07
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Extremely sad with the turn of events.
]]> <![CDATA[Death Note, Vol. 6: Give-and-Take (Death Note, #6)]]> 13620 215 Tsugumi Ohba 1421506270 Sudhakar 3 It started to get kind of boring at this point. If not for the ending, this volume was completely boring. It was not as fast-paced as the others. Let's see where this goes. ]]> 4.39 2005 Death Note, Vol. 6: Give-and-Take (Death Note, #6)
author: Tsugumi Ohba
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 2022/07/04
date added: 2022/07/04
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3.5
It started to get kind of boring at this point. If not for the ending, this volume was completely boring. It was not as fast-paced as the others. Let's see where this goes.
]]> <![CDATA[Death Note, Vol. 5: Whiteout (Death Note, #5)]]> 13617 201 Tsugumi Ohba 1421506262 Sudhakar 3 4.33 2005 Death Note, Vol. 5: Whiteout (Death Note, #5)
author: Tsugumi Ohba
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 2022/07/01
date added: 2022/07/01
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This was kind of disappointing. I dont really like the turn of events. Somehow the story got dragged. I must say, it did become confusing at some point. But it will probably get better. By far, least favourite of the volumes.
]]> <![CDATA[Death Note, Vol. 4: Love (Death Note, #4)]]> 13616 204 Tsugumi Ohba 142150331X Sudhakar 4 4.42 2004 Death Note, Vol. 4: Love (Death Note, #4)
author: Tsugumi Ohba
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at: 2022/07/01
date added: 2022/07/01
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did not expect misa to let go of herself like that
]]> <![CDATA[Death Note, Vol. 3: Hard Run (Death Note, #3)]]> 13618 193 Tsugumi Ohba 1421501708 Sudhakar 5 This is getting crazier and crazier.
There is a second kira omggggg.
Cant wait to see where this is going.]]> 4.46 2004 Death Note, Vol. 3: Hard Run (Death Note, #3)
author: Tsugumi Ohba
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2004
rating: 5
read at: 2022/06/30
date added: 2022/06/30
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OMFG I will screammmmmmmm
This is getting crazier and crazier.
There is a second kira omggggg.
Cant wait to see where this is going.
]]> <![CDATA[Death Note, Vol. 2: Confluence (Death Note, #2)]]> 13619 197 Tsugumi Ohba 1421501694 Sudhakar 4 4.48 2004 Death Note, Vol. 2: Confluence (Death Note, #2)
author: Tsugumi Ohba
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at: 2022/06/30
date added: 2022/06/30
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I am starting to like more and more characters. I honestly dont find myself hating both the protagonist and the antagonist. The entire plot is very impressive and I cannot wait for the next read.
]]> <![CDATA[Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom (Death Note, #1)]]> 13615
Boredom
Light tests the boundaries of the Death Note's powers as L and the police begin to close in. Luckily, Light's father is the head of the Japanese National Police Agency and leaves vital information about the case lying around the house. With access to his father's files, Light can keep one step ahead of the authorities. But who is the strange man following him, and how can Light guard against enemies whose names he doesn't know?]]> 195 Tsugumi Ohba 1421501686 Sudhakar 4 4.47 2004 Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom (Death Note, #1)
author: Tsugumi Ohba
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2004
rating: 4
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This was so good. Thank god i read the manga. I cannot wait to finish the rest of the volumes. I am a tad bit concerned about where this is gonna go. Light Yagami is such a smart kid. Dear Lords, props to the author who is way more intelligent to be creating this masterpiece. I hope I will finish them all soon.
]]> <![CDATA[Blue Flag, Vol. 8 (Blue Flag, #8)]]> 55711468
Toma and Futaba have their first sit-down talk after the big fight at school. Meanwhile, Taichi struggles with the problems that have been dumped in his lap by his friends' choices, and he ends up distancing himself from Toma. Then, one day, Toma stops coming to school. Left in the lurch, what can Futaba and Taichi do? Everyone chooses their futures, and time marches on. Don’t miss the heartfelt conclusion of?Blue Flag!]]> 248 Kaito 1974720942 Sudhakar 5 4.23 2020 Blue Flag, Vol. 8 (Blue Flag, #8)
author: Kaito
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2020
rating: 5
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what the hell that was so goooddddd T-T
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Rumors spread like wildfire after Toma’s shocking confession during the culture festival, and Taichi feels confused and uncertain. The others in their circle are soon affected as well. Meanwhile, Toma’s brother Seiya sits him down for a frank talk. All the thoughts and emotions everyone has kept hidden are finally coming to light, and relationships begin to change.]]> 248 Kaito 1974718751 Sudhakar 4 4.26 2019 Blue Flag, Vol. 7 (Blue Flag, #7)
author: Kaito
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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very impactful and got a lot serious at this point.
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The culture festival begins, and Toma and Taichi talk about their futures, but it ends with the two not quite seeing eye to eye. Shortly after, Toma sits down with Mami for a serious discussion, and in response to her earnest openness, he makes a big decision that could change everything. Time keeps moving forward, pushing everyone to the cusp of making critical life choices.]]> 232 Kaito 1974713067 Sudhakar 5 cutest 4.48 2019 Blue Flag, Vol. 6 (Blue Flag, #6)
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average rating: 4.48
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rating: 5
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cutest
]]> <![CDATA[Blue Flag, Vol. 5 (Blue Flag, #5)]]> 50891210
It’s the last year of high school, and love is in the air. Romantic feelings that have been building up over years of friendship come to light. When Taichi’s classmate Futaba asks him to help her confess to his best friend, Toma, it sparks the catalyst that begins the sweet and heart-wrenching journey of their third and final year of high school.

It’s official! Taichi and Futaba are a couple, and Taichi excitedly breaks the news to Toma. But things quickly grow awkward between the two friends, and Toma becomes more distant. Meanwhile, Toma’s friend Mami starts to get on Taichi’s case about Toma’s change in attitude. But there is more to this girlie girl than meets the eye…]]> 216 Kaito 1974713059 Sudhakar 5 4.26 2018 Blue Flag, Vol. 5 (Blue Flag, #5)
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average rating: 4.26
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Blue Flag, Vol. 4 (Blue Flag, #4)]]> 50891208
Toma’s older brother, Seiya, asks Taichi to find out why Toma doesn’t want to go to college. On the day of Toma’s release from the hospital, Taichi still hasn’t found a way to broach the subject with Toma. Meanwhile, Futaba discovers Taichi’s birthday is coming up, and she decides to invite the group to a fireworks festival so they can all celebrate.]]> 208 Kaito 1974713040 Sudhakar 4 4.36 2018 Blue Flag, Vol. 4 (Blue Flag, #4)
author: Kaito
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Blue Flag, Vol. 3 (Blue Flag, #3)]]> 52757887
Toma gets seriously injured diving in front of a car to save Taichi, leaving Taichi racked with guilt over not just getting his best friend hurt, but also stealing his last chance at making the summer baseball tournament. Guilty and angry, the two boys clash in an emotionally raw argument. Futaba, worried about both of them, invites Taichi out in an attempt to cheer him up.]]> 208 Kaito 1974713032 Sudhakar 4 4.5 4.38 2017 Blue Flag, Vol. 3 (Blue Flag, #3)
author: Kaito
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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4.5
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The school sports festival is coming up, and Toma accepts the position of class 3-A’s cheer squad captain on the condition that Futaba and Taichi serve as his vice-captains. Hoping to live up to Toma’s faith in them, Taichi and Futaba diligently practice their squad’s routine. But when the time comes to perform, Futaba hits a wall that threatens her very participation!]]> 224 Kaito 1974713024 Sudhakar 4 ]]> 4.29 2017 Blue Flag, Vol. 2 (Blue Flag, #2)
author: Kaito
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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It keeps getting interesting

]]> Blue Flag, Vol. 1 51086632
Love is already hard enough, but it becomes an unnavigable maze for unassuming high school student Taichi Ichinose and his shy classmate Futaba Kuze when they begin to fall for each other after their same-sex best friends have already fallen for them.

For some reason, Taichi Ichinose just can’t stand Futaba Kuze. But at the start of his third year in high school, he finds himself in the same homeroom as her, along with his childhood friend Toma Mita, a star athlete. But one day, Futaba opens up to Taichi and admits she has a crush on Toma. She then asks for his help in confessing to him! There’s just one problem—Toma seems to already have a secret crush on someone else.]]> 224 Kaito 1974713016 Sudhakar 4 Cuteeee 4.32 2017 Blue Flag, Vol. 1
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name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.32
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rating: 4
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Cuteeee
]]> No Longer Human 194746 No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. In consequence, he feels himself "disqualified from being human" (a literal translation of the Japanese title).

Donald Keene, who translated this and Dazai's first novel, The Setting Sun, has said of the author's work: "His world … suggests Chekhov or possibly postwar France, … but there is a Japanese sensibility in the choice and presentation of the material. A Dazai novel is at once immediately intelligible in Western terms and quite unlike any Western book." His writing is in some ways reminiscent of Rimbaud, while he himself has often been called a forerunner of Yukio Mishima.

Cover painting by Noe Nojechowiz, from the collection of John and Barbara Duncan; design by Gertrude Huston]]> 176 Osamu Dazai Sudhakar 3 Depressing 3.99 1948 No Longer Human
author: Osamu Dazai
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1948
rating: 3
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Depressing
]]> Swimming in the Dark 49977811 Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism,?a tender and passionate story of first love between two young men who eventually find themselves on opposite sides of the political divide—a stunningly poetic and heartrending literary debut for fans of Andre Aciman, Garth Greenwell, and Alan Hollinghurst.

When university student Ludwik meets Janusz at a summer agricultural camp, he is fascinated yet wary of this handsome, carefree stranger. But a chance meeting by the river soon becomes an intense, exhilarating, and all-consuming affair. After their camp duties are fulfilled, the pair spend a dreamlike few weeks camping in the countryside, bonding over an illicit copy of James Baldwin’s?Giovanni’s Room. Inhabiting a beautiful natural world removed from society and its constraints, Ludwik and Janusz fall deeply in love. But in their repressive communist and Catholic society, the passion they share is utterly unthinkable.

Once they return to Warsaw, the charismatic Janusz quickly rises in the political ranks of the party and is rewarded with a highly-coveted position in the ministry. Ludwik is drawn toward impulsive acts of protest, unable to ignore rising food prices and the stark economic disparity around them. Their secret love and personal and political differences slowly begin to tear them apart as both men struggle to survive in a regime on the brink of collapse.

Shifting from the intoxication of first love to the quiet melancholy of growing up and growing apart,?Swimming in the Dark?is a potent blend of romance, post-war politics, intrigue, and history. Lyrical and sensual, immersive and intense, Tomasz Jedrowski has crafted an indelible and thought-provoking literary debut that explores freedom and love in all its incarnations.]]> 191 Tomasz Jedrowski 006289000X Sudhakar 5 Very very sad 4.25 2020 Swimming in the Dark
author: Tomasz Jedrowski
name: Sudhakar
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2022/06/23
date added: 2022/06/23
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Very very sad
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