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Book Review: The Maid

on October 19, 2021

My's Goodreads bookshelf:

A Woman Is No Man

by Etaf Rum

The only reason I am even giving this book a 2 is that I finished reading it very easily. Even though it was difficult to read because of the subject matter. It started with a Palestinian family living near Israel - forcefully relocated ...

The Fault in Our Stars

by John Green

Beautiful book and a real page turner! I can't believe I hadn't read it until now! Loved the twists and turns, the emotions, the fluid writing. Oh and bonus points to John Greene for imagining 2 complete books that the protagonists like....

American as Paneer Pie

by Supriya Kelkar

This book was touted by many book lists, so I immediately reserved it at my local library. Was the first one to get it too! And I have to say, I loved it from the go! So well-written, fluid, un-pretentious, funny at times and quite emoti...

The Henna Artist

by Alka Joshi

This was an interesting book, in that I have several conflicting opinions about the characters of the book. But let's get the most important part out of the way: I really enjoyed Alka Joshi's writing. It's fluid, interesting, and imagina...

The Dutch House

by Ann Patchett

This was an interesting novel - nothing like I'd read before, really. Very breezy read and an excellent book if you don't go in search of finite plot points and resolutions. Instead, it's about everything associated with the Dutch house ...