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Books Need People is a reading initiative and community for everyone. Join us each month at Karuna's Kitaab Club,and listen in on The Books Need People Podcast.
Joined October 2023
Welcome to Karuna's Kitaab Club-where you get to discover, dive into, & discuss a new book every month! Joining us is super easy, and as joyful as, well, discovering your next new read! More details on the images shared here. Happy Reading 🧡 #KarunasKitaabClub @karunaparikh
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This month we're reading Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings. Her last book, An Island, was nominated for the 2021 Booker Prize, and we're only too honoured to have her as our author of the month as we embark on a new reading year at the Kitaab Club. Join in!
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Our kind of award season 🕺🏻✨🪩 13 more books to choose from :D Which one are you going to pick first from this list? #internationalbookerlonglist2024
We are delighted to reveal the #InternationalBooker2024 longlist, featuring 13 books ‘that speak of courage and kindness, of the vital importance of community, and of the effects of standing up to tyranny’. ➡️ Discover the full list: https://t.co/JQYmgLwhox
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Sometimes, Wednesday afternoons can also seem like an eternity.
"My soul has never been, and never can be, dipped in time. Time has never existed, and never will; it is a purely artificial arrangement. It is eternity now, it always was eternity, and always will be."
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Instagram going AWOL only means this: Us getting our chores done in time, leaving room to add more book recommendations to our To-be-Read lists :) Congratulations to all the wonderful authors longlisted for the #WomensPrize for fiction. 👏👏👏
It's here! These are the 16 novels on the 2024 #WomensPrize for Fiction longlist if you want to see them in one picture 😊📚 https://t.co/MWsbfGeQE4
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Whom you'll love and hate alongside Maria. Unapologetically imaginative, and heartwarming, it begins when Maria is much older, and things are perhaps not what they seem... We will be joined by both the author and the translator, for our chat at the end of the month. #Readalong
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This marvelous story is full of anecdote and quirk, and brims with unexpected emotion too. From very clever dogs to aunts with dementia, Karthav Eesho Mishiha/Jesus Christ, and rogue saints, this is a lush rollercoaster of a book, containing a long list of characters...
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Aand our March book is Maria Just Maria by #SandhyaMary, translated from the Malayalam into English by #JayasreeKalathil. It chronicles the life of Maria, who grows up with her toddy loving grandfather in a Syrian Christian community in a village in Kerala. Join the club!
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How do we pack his greatness in a single tweet? #GulzarSaab no awards do justice to your mastery. #JnanpithAward
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'Love is existence, holding past and future.'
Celebrate Valentine's Day with a copy of Xiaolu Guo's masterful novel about a Chinese woman moving to the UK, finding love, and learning a new language.
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"Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing." — Virginia Woolf
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Our #February #bookofthemonth is here!🪩✨ 'Chronicle of an Hour and a Half', by author @SaharuNusaiba. Set in Vaiga, a village in the foothills of the Western Ghats,the story then moves masterfully through the short timespan of the title, and stays with you long after!
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We agree, wholeheartedly. The best form of #selfcare there is.
strolling aimlessly in a library is selfcare
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And just like that, January's been reduced by half. 😱 The good news is, you still have two weeks to pick up our book for this month "All This Could Be Different" by @smathewss Read along with us, and join in at the end of the month in conversation with the author herself.✨
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Thank you @HomegrownIn 💫✨😊
Karuna’s Kitaab Club: Fostering Reading and Conversation Karuna’s Kitaab Club encourages the transformative power of literature, cultivating an inclusive space that fosters stimulating reading, and the art of vibrant conversation. @BooksNeedPeople
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A reminder to ourselves for the year that lies ahead...
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“I am not eccentric. It’s just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.” – Edith Sitwell
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Merry Christmas readers! We're leaving you with our last episode of the year, a Christmas special we recorded with the phenomenal @AanchalMalhotra. Available now at #booksneedpeople Podcast on @spotifyindia Happy Listening 😊
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