en-US Sat, 19 Apr 2025 02:09:30 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Review7500495133 Sat, 19 Apr 2025 02:09:30 -0700 /review/show/7500495133 Sivananthi gave 4 stars to Malice (Kyoichiro Kaga, #4) by Keigo Higashino
bookshelves: japanese-crime-fiction
A deep seated emotional motivation, and a carefully constructed crime is unpicked by a talented detective. Another page turner. ]]> Review7497652899 Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:24:11 -0700 /review/show/7497652899 Sivananthi gave 5 stars to The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1) by Keigo Higashino
bookshelves: japanese-lit
Absolute page turner, a puzzle set up piece by piece and the ending will have you turning back all past pieces. ]]> Review7495544026 Thu, 17 Apr 2025 03:48:27 -0700 /review/show/7495544026 Sivananthi gave 4 stars to Rules of Civility (Hardcover) by Amor Towles
bookshelves: american-lit
Really enthralling read! ]]> Review7482055672 Sat, 12 Apr 2025 01:13:01 -0700 /review/show/7482055672 Sivananthi gave 5 stars to Table for Two (Hardcover) by Amor Towles
bookshelves: american-lit
A set of great tales from New York and Hollywood. Thoroughly readable - though I became bogged down with work and all - that it took me this long to finish it! ]]> Review7416853376 Wed, 19 Mar 2025 08:56:36 -0700 /review/show/7416853376 Sivananthi gave 4 stars to Mina's Matchbox (Hardcover) by Yōko Ogawa
bookshelves: japanese-lit
Nostalgic coming of age story sent in the 70s, in Ashiya. In usual Ogawa style - there are tensions underlying the relationships - which goes into making the childhood memory charming yet dark. ]]> Review7388215364 Sun, 09 Mar 2025 04:22:48 -0700 /review/show/7388215364 Sivananthi gave 4 stars to The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3) by Pat Barker
bookshelves: greek-lit, feminist-lit
The last and third of the Greek anthology and the retelling of the post Trojan wars from the eyes of women. Again, evocative and readable, and putting a focus on the trauma of rape as a tool fo war, and the women survivors, their coping strategies. This 3rd story is centered around Clytemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon, who sacrificed his daughter for the favourable winds so that the Greeks could sail for Troy. Clytemnestra suffers this tragic loss and seeks revenge, that loss in war from the eyes of women is different from just the ways in which history and mythology record it. ]]> Review7373882197 Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:03:14 -0800 /review/show/7373882197 Sivananthi gave 3 stars to The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2) by Pat Barker
bookshelves: women-s-lit
This was another lyrical re-imagining of the life of the women during the Trojan war. For me personally the Silence of the Girls was a far more vivid retelling, but this was as interesting. From the perspective of women captured during war, part of the 'loot', and who were then treated as both slaves, and concubines of the victors of the war. Briseis, is carrying the child of Achilles. ]]> Review7367499956 Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:37:29 -0800 /review/show/7367499956 Sivananthi gave 5 stars to Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World (Hardcover) by Naomi Klein
bookshelves: non-fiction, philosophy
This is a seminal book that is critical for all liberal activists to read on how dopplegangers and the mirror world are taking up language and space in current politics. Klein unpacks for us many of the challenges activists are facing in order to legitimise and make credible our claims in the current scenario esp in the online/ virtual 'communications' world. Klein offers food for thought for self-critique and improvements - and how to shift gears. ]]> Review7367491885 Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:33:09 -0800 /review/show/7367491885 Sivananthi gave 5 stars to Butter (Hardcover) by Asako Yuzuki
bookshelves: japanese-lit
An exquisite rendering of the unfolding relationship between a gourmet cook cum serial killer and a journalist. The rich description of the recipes shared between both key characters is simply mouth-watering. ]]> UserChallenge62658626 Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:30:59 -0800 /user/show/8409829-sivananthi-t Create your own 2025 Reading Challenge » ]]>