end of the year TBR | but also, hi!

[@pithypages6288]

Best of luccccckkkk for the books, and Merry Christmas ❤

[@mrunalpatki-natu4674]

Yellow face is on my end of the year tbr too

[@PokhrajRoy.]

9:00 I loved the premise of this book.

[@SantReads]

Haina? Inspired by Phoolan Devi.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

@@SantReads She was and will always remain an icon.

[@readersretreat7845]

enjoy all the books

[@SantReads]

Thank you so much! ❤

[@PokhrajRoy.]

‘The Postcard’ sounds awesome! Also, speaking of WW2, Kate Winslet and Andy Samberg are going to star in a movie based on Lee Miller, a female photojournalist who was a model capturing WW2.

[@SantReads]

I heard of thisss vaguely. Interesting times.

[@anuradhamohankumar9914]

So happy to see you back. I hope you finish and enjoy all the books you mentioned here. I have read Yellowface and I enjoyed it. I actually listened to the audiobook and the narration was great.

[@SantReads]

Oooo nice! I'll check out the audiobook too then! And thank you! Happy to be back ❤

[@yashwantsingh2857]

go get me tiger...finish those damnnn books

[@SantReads]

Lol I think you met 'em' but will do! ❤❤

[@yashwantsingh2857]

yeah sorry for that..@@SantReads

[@rahulnair4924]

More videos please 😊

[@SantReads]

I'm on it! New video up now

[@CharlieBrookReads]

Bandit Queen and In Memoriam are both brilliant books!! I hope you enjoy everything you get to 😊

[@SantReads]

Yessss both are so high on the list partly because of you! ❤

[@PokhrajRoy.]

It’s so nice to see a video from you again! Hope you’re doing well.

[@SantReads]

I'm doing well! Was a little sicky. But good now. :)) hope you're doing well

[@PokhrajRoy.]

@@SantReads I’m doing well too

[@PokhrajRoy.]

I want to finish reading ‘Halloween Party’ at some point.

[@SantReads]

What's thaaaat. Googling.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

@@SantReads By Agatha Christie. Part of the Poirot Series.

[@WatermelonSugar1209]

Omg! It’s literally me and Pokhraj who have seen this till now 😂

[@SantReads]

Hahahaha yesssss! Hiiii

[@zara6472]

I also really enjoyed Bandit Queens and cannot believe it wasn't shortlisted for the women's prize. I love women supporting women at the heart of the story. Even if parts of it is nonsensical it works really well!

[@SantReads]

Hahahaha love it. Got to read it.

[@zara6472]

Good to see you back! Look forward to more thoughts and especially reviews of Indian/Pakistani stories as i want to learn more about my own heritage having grown up in the West to first generation immigrant parents ❤

[@SantReads]

DONE. IM ON IT.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Lol I’ve been avoiding the world for 3 years too! #Samesies

[@SantReads]

Hahahaha right? The lockdown etc really shook things up for me.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

@@SantReads It didn’t shake me as much as it made me realise I’ve always been comfortable at home.

[@SantReads]

@@PokhrajRoy. Lol

[@PokhrajRoy.]

College Street lies in my future. I can tell you that much.

[@SantReads]

Lol I also want

[@PokhrajRoy.]

@@SantReads Please come over whenever and we can plan a bookstore crawl in Kolkata

[@zara6472]

As a reader I enjoyed the Yellowface experience - although it was 4* instead of 5 as it lost its way towards the end. As a piece of critique, it could have been more nuanced in it's discussion and done so much more. It was my first RF Kuang book and I treated it as satire and I would read it again, but I'm also aware that it has mixed reviews and Cindy from withcindy has a great video critiquing Yellowface

[@SantReads]

Oooo intriguing. Okay. I have seen Cindy's video but not watched it because I wanted to read the book first. 😂

[@HeatherB81]

Where are youuuu?? 😭❤️

[@SantReads]

I'm backkkkkkk

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[@SantReads]

Thank you so much. I'm alright though. Just been busy/unwell. I'm back now though.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Partition literature is definitely skewed towards a very specific point of view. Also, the hypocrisy one sees of showing empathy towards Partition and its impact in North India/Hindi Belt but being xenophobic towards the Bengali (especially minorities) survivors of Partition.

[@zara6472]

Are there any good books with a more objective POV that doesn't hate on minorities that you would recommend? Or even a well written book that shows the cultural stereotypes and racism that exist for a western reader to understand what the community feelings are, accepting no community and no history is perfect?

[@SantReads]

Oh I definitely agree.

[@SantReads]

​@@zara6472I read this book by Zubaan publishers last year or so called Inherited Memories which was nice but not amazing. Niyogi has a book which is an anthology of short stories called The Bleeding Border I think. And then there's Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

@@zara6472 There’s a non-fiction book on Partition in Bengal that released a while back.