Keerthi

Extra star cause I finished it in a day.
A little disappointed by the ending. I guess it's her style to reveal who done it to be some trivial character in the final chapter with as little detail as possible.
Nothing too revolutionary as such.

I don't know if it was the book itself or the long flight I was on, but I finished Blue Sisters in almost a single day. The writing is so good,it kept me hooked and made me pause to wonder: is this what too much love feels like?

At its heart, this book is about trauma, about how your upbringing shapes the rest of your life. Reading it made me realize how lucky I am to have grown up in good circumstances, surrounded by a good family. It also kept pulling my thoughts back to my own sister and how, no matter what, family is something you always return to. It really underscored how important family is, in every sense.

That's what I love about reading fiction. Even if it doesn't always sound “intellectual” when you tell people what you're reading, stories like this open up new ways of thinking and feeling. They make you reflect.

“She was complete without me, I was incomplete without her.”

I think this book is a big, fat, emotional love letter to her mom. It is less of a memoir and more of a love letter. And even when her mom is not really with her, she is always with her. A very interesting complicated relationship with her mother and how the love, fear shaped her and her experiences.

The book feels incredibly real, so much vulnerability. And yes, I also learned that a very famous book can earn you shitloads of money.

Roy is like her mom in so many ways. She is brave, does what she wants, forges her own path. They make you think about all the things you wish you had done. Meanwhile, she just does them. She doesn't wish. She does. She just does it.

Her writing is poetic, sarcastic, funny, mysterious, but not so mysterious. Always, always carries some kind of intense emotion, which I appreciate. Relatable, real, descriptive, Roy just leaves me, thinking about a lot of things, every time.

Reading this made me want to reread The God of Small Things and then read everything else she's ever written. I forgot how much I enjoyed that book, despite the ending. And now, after reading Mother Mary Comes to Me, I see where so many of those characters came from, what inspired them. They make sense in a new way.

She's shot movies, written movies, acted in them. She writes articles, she's an activist. She has opinions and she tells the whole world her opinions. And honestly, that's the kind of person I think I would want to be someday.

Also love the cover! The pictures. The red. The moth.

I liked the first book so much that I had to read the second one.

I wasn't disappointed, exactly, but it didn't feel quite as magical to me as the first maybe because this one carries a sadder tone. It still has the same love of books, the cozy old bookshop, and a touch of romance, which I really enjoyed.

There are storylines like Tomo and Tokano, the mouse-colored sweater man, Sabu (what does he even do for work?), and Wada #2 but they felt a little abrupt, and I was left wondering what actually happened with them.

Even so, I still liked it. It's a warm, cozy, and slightly sad book.

Reading it also made me realize how much I enjoy slice-of-life stories. They make me feel like, somehow, things always get better.

I loved this book. I'm really glad I read it.

The Midnight Library shows you that you can be anything you want to be, because identity is whatever you tell yourself it is. Nora could have been a pop star, a swimmer, a glaciologist, a teacher, a mother, a sister, a daughter, a pub owner. She could be anything and everything, and in a way she is all of them, a bit of everything.

it shows that regrets are mostly in your head.
“What sometimes feels like a trap is actually just a trick of the mind.”
You are as grateful and as satisfied with your life as you decide to be. When you decide.

You could be rich, “successful,” fit, have everything and still be unhappy. So when does it ever end? Where is the finish line?

Love is what Nora discovers. No matter how perfect a life looks, the moment she doesn't have her brother, or her mother, or her father or someone she loves and loves her back, that perfect life fades. That's what matters.
“To fear love is to fear life.”

So many good quotes. A really powerful reminder that life is about possibility, perspective, and choosing to live the one that's yours.