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THE READING MELOPHILE
So many books, so little time.
This blog is all about my love for books and how I felt after reading them. You can read them on The Shelfrighteous Nook page.
The flip side of this blog is my passion for Carnatic music and my musings about the classical form. You can read them on The Carnatic Corner page.
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Ponniyin Selvan- The First Floods
Kalki Krishnamurthy's magnum Opus and a timeless Tamil classic! Spanned out in five volumes, Ponniyin Selvan is centered on the life of...
Vasudha
Oct 12, 20222 min read
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The Secret History
TW: Racism, Homophobia, Substance abuse, death. "Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not." It's been...
Vasudha
Mar 31, 20223 min read
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The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo
TW: Homophobia, biphobia, death, cancer After seeing this book being hyped all over, my expectations were high and I was quite...
Vasudha
Mar 1, 20222 min read
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Chokher Bali
No amount of words is enough to praise Tagore and his works. His works have garnered such respect all over the world, it's no wonder many...
Vasudha
Feb 24, 20223 min read
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The Heart's Invisible furies
"If there is one thing I've learned in more than seven decades of life, it's that the world is a completely fucked-up place. You never...
Vasudha
Jan 25, 20223 min read
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The Boy in the striped pyjamas
"...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have...
Vasudha
Oct 21, 20212 min read
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The Bell Jar
TW- Self-harm, suicide, depression, sexual assault. "How did I know that someday--at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere--the bell...
Vasudha
Oct 6, 20212 min read
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A little life
TW- Self-harm, suicide, paedophilia, death, sexual assault, graphic violence. "Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been...
Vasudha
Aug 1, 20213 min read
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Cobalt Blue
The final week of the pride readathon's pick is to read Indian queer literature. I had picked this masterpiece and I'm so glad about it....
Vasudha
Jun 28, 20213 min read
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The Part I left with you
"You fall out of love and stop loving people just like you fall in love and start loving them. There are bigger things in life than love...
Vasudha
Jun 24, 20212 min read
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Cemetery Boys
"But belonging meant denying who he was. Living as something he wasn't had nearly torn him apart from the inside out. But he also loved...
Vasudha
Jun 21, 20212 min read
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Sputnik Sweetheart
"Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in the world, all of them yearning, looking for...
Vasudha
Jun 10, 20212 min read
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The Song of Achilles
"In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred...
Vasudha
Jun 5, 20212 min read
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The Tragic Tale of Teddy Woven
This is a paranormal romance that follows the story of the protagonists: Teddy and Sela. Theodore "Teddy" Woven- a reserved man haunted...
Vasudha
May 26, 20211 min read
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Ragas and their aesthetics
I haven't been active on this side of the blog as much as I'm on books' posts. The blame is completely on me as I didn't have any idea on...
Vasudha
May 23, 20213 min read
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Six of Crows and Crooked kingdom
"A gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who had become a killer, a boy from barrel who had become something...
Vasudha
May 20, 20213 min read
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the secrets of the Universe.
"I hated being volunteered. The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea." Written by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, this...
Vasudha
May 3, 20212 min read
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The Shadows between us
"They’ve never found the body of the first and only boy who broke my heart." "The Shadows between us" is a YA fantasy standalone novel...
Vasudha
Apr 17, 20212 min read
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