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... finding it interesting but cannot wait to get back to fiction. Can't decide between The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason, or The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.
Kathy
The Loss by J.D. Robb sounds like a great book. I'm adding it to my list.
Prize Winners
1. White Tiger-Aravind Adiga
2. Oliver Kitteridge-Elizabeth Strout
3.Wolf Hall-Hilary Mantel
4.The Inheritance of Loss -Kiran Desai
5.Life of Pi-Yann Martel
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... it was still enjoyable for me as an adult.
Before reading this one, I had started and made it about halfway throught The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. I just could not get into this one. I never really felt like I knew where the story was going, and I did not care for the ...
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A. Home by Marilynne Robinson
B. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
C. The Mammoth Cheese by Sheri Holman
D. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
E. The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
After a brief visit to the borderland of India and Tibet/Nepal with The Inheritance of Loss (meh, did not live up to the hype. I'll have to review and post a link here) I decided to head for the South for a bit. I finished Truman Capote's novella Other Voices, Other Rooms for Louisiana and M ...
I just finished The Inheritance of Loss . It is lovely but decidedly grim.
... to Ithaca by Anita Desai and just couldn't get into it - another reason I was avoiding Kiran's book. I must say The Inheritance of Loss got my attention immediately, and I never lost interest.
(104) The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. Decided it was time to give the murder mysteries a rest!
At first, I shied away from this book (mainly because my copy's print is tiny tiny) but I took the plunge and enjoyed it a lot. Set in the 1980's, the background is the Gurkhali ...
I have four books on the go:
The Progress of Love by Alice Munro
Don't Look Now by Daphne Du Maurier
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire by Morris Berman
And I have been dipping in and out of Dickens by Peter Ackroyd ...
I slowly finished only two more books.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
At this point of the year my goal is more like 6/9/9: reading six books in each of 9 categories this year. That is more doable, putting less pressure on myself.
23. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
24. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
(Posted short reviews for both, but I probably didn't add much new content to the hundreds of existing reviews)
... Orwell (sci fi)
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (fiction)
Under Sea, Over Stone by Susan Cooper (ya fantasy)
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (fiction)
Currently Reading:
The Once and Future King by T. H. White (fantasy)
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworth ...
Rebecca, aruba, thanks for fuelling my suspicion that The Inheritance of Loss is not for me!
>136 I wasn't, but thanks - it looks good and I'd never heard of it.
... books
1. White Teeth
2. At swim two boys
3. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
4. Cloud Atlas: A Novel
5. The Inheritance of Loss
6. The Line of Beauty
7. Middlemarch
8. The Moor's Last Sigh
9. Possession: A Romance
10. A Prayer for Owen Meany
10 ...
I'm among those who didn't like The Inheritance of Loss . All About H. Hatterr sounds very good, as does the Jelloun book, which I too will have to wait to read in translation.
You've been doing some very interesting reading.
... Blah...
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Supposed to be funny... apparently
Mother's Milk
Carry Me Down
The Inheritance of Loss Shouldn't have won the Booker
Half a Yellow Sun
Season of Migration to the North Excellent book about obsession
Two that I read and loved and recommend heartily:
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry (set in Bombay/Mumbai)
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (set up by the northern border with Nepal)
Hope you enjoy your trip!
Count me in the group of people who didn't like The Inheritance of Loss ; I found it very disappointing although there were some parts I enjoyed. There are so many wonderful Indian authors, I'm sure you'll find one that you haven't read and would enjoy.
... Cast ~ It's the 4th book in the House of Night series.
From Bookmoch:
Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
ARCs from publishers:
The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
God Sleeps in Rwanda by Joseph Sebarenzi
AND from a ...
... 3 -1/2
The Hundred Secret Senses 2- 1/2
Brick Lane 2
Gilgamesh 2
The Stone Diaries 1
The Accidental 1
Inheritance of Loss 1/2
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living 1/2 for interest
Gilead 0 - which is good because I'll try to read this and Home one after another at ...
... it's not a light summer read.
Personally, I just couldn't get into the two Booker winners, Half of a Yellow Sun and The Inheritance of Loss . (I tend to prefer the longlist titles.) And La Cucina is on my list of worst books read.
... Little Friend by Donna Tartt (which hasn't been getting very good reviews from most of you)
Paradise by Toni Morrison
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout (whose Olive Kitteridge was excellent)
or
La Cucina by Lil ...
... be reading Small Island which was great, as was The Colour and I have to say that I must be one of the few who liked The Inheritance of Loss . oh, and White Teeth was great too . . . .
... both 1001 and Orange nominees. They are...
White Teeth
Small Island new 1001 list
The Accidental new 1001 list
The Inheritance of Loss new 1001 list
I'll definately be reading Small Island this month.
... Filth
Evening is the Whole Day
The Wilderness
Of those that I've read that I wouldn't particularly recommend:
The Inheritance of Loss
The Autograph Man
Half a Yellow Sun
On Beauty
Case Histories
The Great Fire
A Child's Book of Crime
The Weight of Water
The Po ...
... are:
The Orchard by Drusilla Modjeska
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. I know this last one has had very wide ranging reviews, but I thought it was a well written and intelligent book.
Edited 'cos ...
... Lane and White Teeth several years back and recall liking them but they haven't stuck with me as much as the others. Inheritance of Loss was just so-so for me.
... Secret Senses 2- 1/2
Brick Lane 2
Purple Hibiscus 1
The Stone Diaries 1
Gilgamesh 1
The Accidental 1
Inheritance of Loss 1/2
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living 1/2 for interest
Gilead 0 - which is good because I'll try to read this and Home one after another ...
I have read
The Inheritance of Loss and liked it!
Brick Lane- like it too
I started Fall on Your Knees and this was my couldn't finish book.
so my vote
Brick Lane and Inheritance of Loss
Hi, Kim--I've read Small Island, Purple Hibiscus, Brick Lane, White Teeth, The Inheritance of Loss , Bel Canto, The Colour, and The Stone Diaries from your list. Honestly, I liked all of them very much (including The Inheritance of Loss, although I've heard more people who feel as Ji ...
Hi, Kim! I have only read three of your books on the Orange TBR mountain: Small Island, The Inheritance of Loss and The Colour. I would highly recommend The Colour. I was pleasantly surprised and taken by this book. I thought its beginning was a tad slow, but it really paid off by the end.
...
... Ngozi Adichie 2004 short-list
Brick Lane by Monica Ali 2004 short-list
White Teeth by Zadie Smith 2000 short-list
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai 2007 short-list
Second pile
Everymans Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany 2006 short-list
The Accidental by Ali Sm ...
i found a secondhand copy of White Teeth which i'm starting today, after just finishing The Inheritance of Loss
thanks #222 - made me add that to my wishlist ;)
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, the beginning of Gyan and Sai as he tutors her.
"Good afternoon," said Gyan.
She looked up and he felt a deep pang.
Back at the dining table, the mathematics books between them, tortured by ...
love The Robber Bride :)
i'm in Cho Oyu, in the Himalayas, trying to have a telephone conversation with New York - The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.
getting through The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai but over the past few nights have passed out while reading due to exhaustion - never thought that would be possible!
... I stumbled upon a great little sale and went home with Darkly Dreaming Dexter, The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader and The Inheritance of Loss for me, in addition to New Moon for her.
Also in from the library are
Darwin's theory: Evolution through 400 years by Erik Tunstad (no ...
... by Barbara Kingsolver
Paradise by Toni Morrison
La Cucina by Lily Prior
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
and
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
I won't be able to read all of these in July since I'm a pretty slow reader. I'm going to a bookstore tomorrow (don't you love it ...
... month.
Small Island - The Orange of the Oranges ;-) and 2004 Winner.
Bel Canto - 2002 Winner.
Short-listed
The Inheritance of Loss 2007
Everymans Rules for Scientific Living 2006
Purple Hibiscus 2004
White Teeth 2000
The Hundred Secret Senses 1996
long-listed
Gi ...
... by Michael Ondaatje, which was lovely. I enjoyed the French half much more than initial story. I've just started The Inheritance of Loss :)
Kathi, I also enjoyed Interpreter of Maladies and, on the Indian theme, must get back to The Inheritance of Loss .
143. The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai (384)
... Mountains Music Festival)
Bought from Friends of the Library Store:
Possession by A.S. Byatt -- to send to my mom
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson
The Great Ghost Rescue by Eva Ibbotson
... read).
318. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, 2007
319. Falling Man by Don DeLillo, 2007
320. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (2008)
321. The Accidental by Ali Smith, 2007
322. Small Island by Andrea Levy, 2007
323. Vernon God Little byDBC Pi ...
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the inheritance of loss kiran desai
cameling in What Are You Reading Now? : What books LEFT your home today? -- February 2009 (Feb 10, 2009, 9:06pm)
I sent off The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber and The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai to some fellow LTers.
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle from the used book shelf at the library. $1 for two never-read books.
... da da da daaaaaaaa . . . . . here goes :o)
These are the ones I have read:-
1. Falling Man Don DeLillo
2. The Inheritance of Loss Kieran Desai
3. Carry Me Down M.J. Hyland
4. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Marina Lewycka
5. The Sea John ...
Moved this tally to post #2.
... am currently reading Lady Chatterley's Lover.
I recently have read and enjoyed The Reluctant Fundamentalist and The Inheritance of Loss which are of course on the new list.
To my chagrin I've only read 88 from that list!
Finally finished a book! - The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. I'm sending it out on another ring, so if anyone's interested, PM me... it's on that wicked little 1001 list :)
Tutoring a kid this afternoon on Waiting for Godot, so I expect my next reads to be suitably academic, ...
... agreeing with them or identifying with them but experiencing with them, whatever they're going through.
I think The Inheritance of Loss is a real benchmark book, regarding how important this is to you. Such a well written book but the characters were so remote. I'm not surprised ...
... are like me in that you need to get some feeling from the characters in order to fully enjoy a story -- didn't we agree on Inheritance of Loss ? Oh, all the books are running together!
... Half of a Yellow Sun, Unless and Fugitive Pieces. I have a few others on Mount TBR such as White Teeth , The inheritance of Loss and The Poisonwood Bible, also all on the 1001 list.
I think The Road Home and Sorry are coming my way soon but I'm not sure they'll make ...
... it got any award, much less the Man-Booker! My favorites: Paddy Clarke Ha! Ha! Ha!, True History of the Kelly Gang, The Inheritance of Loss , Life of Pi, and God of Small Things.
... to finish it.
I've also enjoyed most of the Orange list books I've read. The ones I didn't enjoy so much, such as The Inheritance of Loss I admired but couldn't engage with the characters in the way that makes a book special for me. I think Bel Canto, might have also fallen into ...
Happy new year! I've started the year with two books - a daytime one and a nighttime one. The daytime one is The Inheritance of Loss , which I sent out on a bookring two Christmases ago and has returned just in time to be read! It's had mixed reviews from the bookringers but I'm really enjoying it. ...
The Inheritance of Loss is on my TBR pile for this year too. I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of it.
I really liked Water for Elephants. It was one of those books I picked up because I was on vacation, not really expecting to get very far into it, and I ended up not being able ...
... However, I see a number of books I recently tried to read and abandoned, including Small Island, History of Love, and Inheritance of Loss which is very unusual for me.
Either way, this is a great idea. Thanks!
Laura
... and others. However, I see a number of books I recently tried to read and abandoned, Small Island, History of Love, and Inheritance of Loss which is very unusual for me.
Either way, this is a great idea. Thanks!
Laura
... April 8
v. The Name of The Rose (Italy) Finished April 30
vi. Like Water For Chocolate (Mexico) Finished June 6
vii. The Inheritance of Loss (India) Finished July 19
viii. Life And Death Are Wearing Me Out (China) Finished August 13
ix. My Name Is Red
... Dawn Romain Gary
The Native Commissioner Shaun Johnson (Winner: Best Book in Africa, Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2007)
The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai (Booker)
I barely made the 75 book challenge for 2008 (as you can see in my topic ), but ready to signed up for 2009. My categories are:I. Science fiction
... it goes thru the 5 stages of grief & she can skip around as she reads. I found it helpful. If she reads poetry Loss by Elspeth Baker has poems that are not the kind found on cards. Be careful of fiction written by writers who have never experienced death of a loved one.
... operty
The Bonesetter's Daughter
When I Lived in Modern Times
Fall on Your Knees
Amy and Isabelle
Old Filth
The Inheritance of Loss
Caramelo
I take these Orange months very seriously! And I have fun too!
... Suns - Khaled Hosseini
2. (Book #10 for the year) The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler
3. (Book #21 etc.) The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
4. (29) The Dressmaker - Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck
5. (31) The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth
6. (47) The Kite Runner - Khal ...
... the group until next year, so here goes. I'm currently reading mother daughter books: In Custody by Anita Desai and The Inheritance of Loss by her daughter. These are of particular interest to me after the attacks in Mumbai. I look forward to getting new ideas.
... spirits!!!!!
As Booksloth says in #30, yes, I would also say read them all.
My favourites are God of Small Things, Inheritance of Loss , Remains of the Day, Brick Lane. My least favourite is Reluctant Fundamentalist, but even that was worth reading.
I was recommending Oscar W ...
The Inheritance of Loss is a book I keep recommending to all and thrusting at friend and foe alike. Most highly recommended. And let me take this opportunity to also suggest that all book lovers join Book Nudgers, a group on LT dedicated to recommending good books to each other. Lots of great ...
I've read One Hundred Years of Solitude and loved it! How about The Inheritance of Loss ?
Great stack! I've read a handful of them and most of the rest are in my own TBR piles.
I found The Inheritance of Loss tedious going, so I would denudge that one, despite the Booker Prize. I enjoyed Brick Lane. It's a fast read with some wonderful moment, but the ending was a bit too ...
... The Remains of the Day
All this nudging is making me wonder about what makes a book great for me personally! I can see The Inheritance of Loss achieves more as a work of literature than, say, Brick Lane. It was clever, beautifully written and politically aware. But I enjoyed Brick Lane ...
I also think The Remains of the Day - beautiful book. I liked the The Inheritance of Loss as well.
Ah, what a wonderful list. So many good books to nude and only one nudge. I am torn between The Remains of the Day and The Inheritance of Loss , which I have nudged elsewhere. Since I have already nudged Inheritance, I think I will nudge Remains of the Day. The film version with Emma Thom ...
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey
Brick Lane by Monica A ...
... the two nudges for Year of Wonders (not on my tbr list), have been noted and will have to be added to my tbr!
About The Inheritance of Loss – I started reading it and am enjoying the beautiful prose thoroughly, but I didn't realise I have a terrible copy with tiny print (no ...
... Story by Zoe Wicomb
6. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
7. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
8. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
9. Tropic of Orange by Karen Tei Yamashita
... ory.com/counter/w5DYPoC/">
1 the inheritance of loss kiran desai (man booker prize 2006) (12 february-16 february)
2 middlesex jeffrey eugenides (pulitzer prize 2003) (20 june-30 june)
3 life of ...
I, too, shall nudge Inheritance of Loss .
Secrets of a Family Album by Isla Dewar- an easy, entertaining read.
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai - a more substantial book. Comments to follow as I'm still reading.
... McDermott
9.Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett
Man Booker Prize
1.The Gathering by Anne Enright
2.The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
3.The Sea by John Banville
4.The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
5.Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
6.Life of Pi by ...
... be interested to see what you make of him, and I like the look of your non-fiction, too.
Conclusion? carry on and read The Inheritance of Loss because I'd like to hear what you think about that one as well - if you like it I might just have to read it!
I'm about to start The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.
... Secrets of a Family Album, an easy read, thanks Jane! I needed something light after The Sewing Circles of Herat. The Inheritance of Loss is next!
... that was a wonderful endorsement!
And together with Amanda's thumbs-up for it (thanks, Amanda), I'll be dipping into The Inheritance of Loss next. Still finishing off Secrets tho..
Will keep y'all posted.
I nudge Arrow of God even though I haven't read it. (I have read The Inheritance of Loss - pretty good; and March - hated it. Nobody else did.)
... So NOT a nudge on my part LOL.
The Moons of Jupiter is a first rate collection.
But, drumroll, please, The Inheritance of Loss is more than great. It is a book which will still be read to great acclaim a hundred years from now. It is touching, well-told, filled with ...
Nice to see another list of books. I haven't read any of your list, so no nudges from me. I have The Inheritance of Loss on my pile too, but have had mixed reports.
I have the second in the Sunday Philosophy Club series, and it didn't pass the "must keep reading" test after a few pages, ...
... Lamb, and need help deciding where to go next!
The above tbr books are closest at hand. They are:
Fiction:
The Inheritance of Loss by Keran Desai
Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
Mothers and Shadows by Marta Traba
Mourning is Not Permitted by Leslie Wilson
Mouthing the Wo ...
... Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. As far as fiction. I've read The Known World, The Madonnas of Leningrad, The Inheritance of Loss , The Name of the Rose, Fugitive Pieces and A Good House.-I couldn't figure why A Good House won the Giller Prize.
My choice -Fugitive Piec ...
... much help here, as a few are in my own TBR piles, and the ones I've read (or tried to read) didn't thrill me. I gave up on The Inheritance of Loss about halfway through, and I've put down and picked back up The View from Castle Rock a number of times but haven't yet gotten hooked by it. I ...
... Sixty Lights, The Madonnas of Leningrad, The Name of the Rose, The Known World, The View from Castle Rock and The Inheritance of Loss - much depends on what kind of you are up for. Geesh, I feel like you've been rummaging around in my library:-)
Hard to point out just one to ...
... remember being a bit disappointed after all the hype about it and I had to give up on The Island Of The Day Before. The Inheritance of Loss and Half a Yellow Sun are both in my tbr's too but not in my photoed stack.
I'm only a occassional reader of non-fiction but I enjoyed Stasila ...
... weekend and the little town we visited had a couple of used bookstores. I picked up:
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
18 Seconds by George D. Shuman - He lives in Ligonier the town we were visiting.
The Specials by Scott Westerfeld
... and away
The Lieutenant
Fingersmith
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Secret Scripture
Hotel du Lac
The Inheritance of Loss
The Lost Dog
The Tenderness of Wolves
A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian
In Defense of Food
... by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
4: Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin
5: Murder in the Dark by Margaret Atwood
6: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
7: Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
8: Pages from Cold Point by Paul Bowles
9: The Prussian Bride by Yuri Buida
10: Tor ...
... I was loathed to send it out but my best friend asked for it when I called to tell her how much I had enjoyed reading it.
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
But there are those that I just didn't get into or just plain didn't like, and I am joyful when ...
I'm slowly reading The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai and I love it so far. Unfortunately, reading for my dissertation is temporarily taking over... Books recently delivered to my doorstep include: Atomic Light, Bodies of Memory, Writing Ground Zero, and Out of the Alleyway. They ...
Finished The Inheritance of Loss last night and think it's a worthy Booker Winner. Very powerful but easy to read.
Also two thirds the way through The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory on audio, and my 'don't forget the child in me' book is currently The Twits by Roald Dahl.
... generation immigrant Iraqis, adopting from Korea.
104. Stardust, Neil Gaiman, 1999
A delightful fantasy.
105. Inheritance of Loss , Kiran Desai, 2006
Challenging story of post colonial India. Terrific descriptions of place.
crimson-tide in BookCrossing Australia! : Group Reading Log: September 2008 (Sep 11, 2008, 11:39pm)
... It was not at all as I'd expected. Lyrical, interesting and different. Has anyone else read it?
Next is a bookring The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, which is one of yours I believe Miss-Owl.
The Mill on The Floss by George Eliot
I'm the Boss by Steve Metzger
Betsy Ross by Alexandra Wallner
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Lust, Loathing and a Little Lip Gloss by Kyra Davis
In Custody by Anita Desai - good
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai - excellent.
Just started The 27th Kingdom by Alice Thomas Ellis - this is a reread.
106. Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai - thoroughly enjoyed this book set in post-colonial India and New York. Interesting characters, wonderful detail.
... I've had to post them. A shout out to mckait, who mentioned this madness that is the dollar-a-book (one dollar!) sale:
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
A School of Night by Alan Wall
My Lover's Lover by Maggie O'Farrell
War Crimes for the Home by Liz Jensen
Good Faith by Ja ...
... the next 3 days, because I am sad sad sad, and they haven't even unpacked everything yet!!
Available now -
The Inheritance of Loss Cradle to Cradle
Lost in a Good Book
Paradise of the Blind (has some water ...
... I thought Unless was excellent, but had to stop reading because it upset me so much, as a mother and as a woman writer. Inheritance of Loss resonated with me, having lived in Pakistan near Kashmir, and it seemed very true, but I, too, found the characters impossible to get close to.
As to ...
Inheritance: A Novel by Len Samantha Chang.
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri.
Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss.
The Grass Roof and East Goes West by Younghill Kang.
The Last Manchu by Henry Pu Yi.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See.
All were good reads, some ...
Two highly hyped books that I wasn't able to finish:
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I only made it about 50 pages into the first one. It just didn't grab me and the characters were not very engaging or dynamic.
I ...
... the young narrator was a total waste of time. The style of constantly ALMOST explaining everything was soo annoying.
The Inheritance of Loss was terrible. Bad writing, unsympathetic characters, and no real plot or point. We read it for a book group and not one person liked it, and many ...
... from Kalimpong on the Indian side of the Himalayas, and in crowded restaurants in New York City with illegal immigrants in The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. Such a journey. Am still reeling. And so, not sure where to head out to next.
...
Book 27: The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan - truly magnificent. There isn't much more to say about this.
Book 28: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai - fabulous in a literary sense, as you would expect a Booker Prize winner to be. But maybe it was a little too literary and not ...
#5- I read The Inheritance of Loss last year. Although there were aspects of the book I sort of admired, I didn't engage with the characters and didn't enjoy it.
#5-mrstreme- Read your review on The Inheritance of Loss . That is one of those books I was going back and forth on, should I read it, yes, no, yes, no. Now I think I'll skip it. Thanks!
Finally posted my review of The Inheritance of Loss if you're interested (I didn't know what to say about this one).
50) The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai ( review )
My sympathies teelgee!
Finishing of my Orange July month;
The Inheritance of Loss , Kiran Desai, 4 stars
Digging to America, Anne Tyler, 4 stars
The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney, 4 stars
I finished The Inheritance of Loss last night..my review is in Readerville .
Am now about 75 pages into Queen of the Road...It's OK so far, but not yet as fabulous as I ...
I'm about halfway through The Inheritance of Loss , and it's so beautiful that I want to go slowly and just linger in the the language. It's going to be a good weekend.
I've already learned 2 new words in the first 50 pages of The Inheritance of Loss
borborygmus : a rumbling or gurgling sound caused by the movement of gas in the intestines
pusillanimity : the state or condition of being pusillanimous; timidity; cowardliness
Wonder how ...
... Readerville
Getting ready to begin The Inheritance of Loss ...I'm really looking forward to this one.
... north, through cold,wind and snow in our search for the north pole, and am now heading for warmer climates (I hope!) with The inheritance of loss in India.
... oranges that i plan on reading next (hopefully by the end of july) are:
digging to america
the idea of perfection
the inheritance of loss
small island
unless
we need to talk about kevin
have heard great things about all of these so i hope they live up to my expectations!!
... by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
4: Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin
5: Murder in the Dark by Margaret Atwood
6: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
7: Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
8: Pages from Cold Point by Paul Bowles
9: The Prussian Bride by Yuri Buida
10: Tor ...
Finally reading The Inheritance of Loss from my to be read pile.
Cariola--I have The Inheritance of Loss and I lent it to a friend and like you, she was also not too thrilled with it.
Alcot--I really do not think its you as concerns Booker Prize winners. I really think that many times people confuse pretentious and unreadable with excellence. After having ...
A little retail therapy this month resulted in the following from Amazon:
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Letters of Noel Coward by Noel Coward
My friend had to bring me this package ...
I just listed a copy of The Inheritance of Loss which I will reserve for friends, since I know it's heavily wishlisted, so if you are interested, just drop me a line and I'll add you in - mention LT!
... than I did. I liked her style, but it was SO gloomy.
I also had problems with the previous year's Booker Prize winner, The Inheritance of Loss . Not for the same reasons, but it just didn't grab me. I find I enjoy the non-winning nominees much more.
... following.
The Keep by Jennifer Egan -- strange but interesting
Half of A Yellow Sun loved it as you all know
The Inheritance of Loss -- I didn' enjoy this, as cabegley so diplomatically points out
The Tenderness of Wolves -- read it and loved it, thanks to an LT recommendation
...
... within. I am a big fan of Waters' work.
From 2007:
I loved Half of a Yellow Sun--a deserving winner.
I thought Inheritance of Loss was beautifully written, especially in the way the countryside became as much a character as the people themselves. The story had a much broader scope ...
... - shortlist. This one was near the top of my Best in 2007 list. 4.5 out of 5.
2007 Longlist
Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss - shortlist. I got about 60 pages in and abandoned it. May get back to it later, but it just didn't grab me.
Jane Harris, The Observations - ...
... Half of a Yellow Sun - winner
Clare Allan, Poppy Shakespeare
Rachel Cusk, Arlington Park - shortlist
Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss - shortlist
Patricia Ferguson, Peripheral Vision
Margaret Forster, Over
Nell Freudenberger, The Dissident
Rebecca Gowers, When to Walk
X ...
... by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
4: Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin
5: Murder in the Dark by Margaret Atwood
6: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
7: Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
8: Pages from Cold Point by Paul Bowles
9: The Prussian Bride by Yuri Buida
10: Tor ...
More books that came (to my office, this time) while I was out of town...
Two from BM:
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai and
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
A book I won from someone's blog:
The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber
Plus my ER bonus batch book:
T ...
... I've left behind. Obviously I hope to be reunited with my library before too much longer!
Regarding Kiran Desai's book, The Inheritance of Loss , I enjoyed it and I am glad I read it. Her writing style is quite studied ... polished like a gem and perhaps just as cold ... and I think the ...
May Reads
37. L'Homme à l'envers by Fred Vargas
38. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
39. La Chute by Albert Camus
40. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
41. The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton
42. The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari
... Fitzgerald, and have loved all her books.
Hundred secret senses I like all her books, but the Joy Luck Club best.
The inheritance of Loss was very well done and believable with great characters. I think she is even more talented than her mother Anita Desai
A History of Love A ...
#3 Anisoara, I have read mixed reviews about The Inheritance of Loss . What did you think of it? Would you recommend it?
... by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
4: Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin
5: Murder in the Dark by Margaret Atwood
6: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
7: Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
8: Pages from Cold Point by Paul Bowles
9: The Prussian Bride by Yuri Buida
10: Tor ...
... by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
4: Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin
5: Murder in the Dark by Margaret Atwood
6: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
7: Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
IN PROGRESS
The Prussian Bride by Yuri Buida (halfway)
Collected Stories by Vlaid ...
... by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
4: Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin
5: Murder in the Dark by Margaret Atwood
6: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
IN PROGRESS
The Prussian Bride by Yuri Buida.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Ulysses by James Joyce
Tr ...
... I have read more than I thought (and that only goes back to 2005 or 2006, I believe):
Lucky Girls
The Accidental
The Inheritance of Loss
The Observations
Afterwards
The Blood of Flowers
The Gathering
And I have five more in my TBR stacks:
On Beauty
A History of Lo ...
... Mukherjee I heartily recommend. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson I am just rereading and loving anew. Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. Typical American by Gish Jen. Obasan by Joy Kogawa. Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels. Just a few off the top of ...
I haven't read A Fine Balance nor Family Matters but I recently finished reading The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai for a Book Club and I found that book depressing. Now I'm curious to know how Desari's book compares with Rohinton Mistry's books. On the surface anyway they seem to ...
The inheritance of loss might fit the criteria - one of the characters is a voluntary immigrant
My Antonia is another
The heart of redness - a voluntary immigrant returns to his former home country
Ignorance by Milan Kundera
My traitors heart - one of the grandchildren of the ...
... out to be The Curious Incident of the DOG in the Night-time) or what the title is for that book with the green cover (The Inheritance of Loss by the way). The computer search function isn't able to tell you which book was reviewed in the Sydney Morning Herald 2 weekends ago. A computer can' ...
... by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
4: Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin
5: Murder in the Dark by Margaret Atwood
6: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
IN PROGRESS
Collected Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
The Prussian Bride by Yuri Buida.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich ...
... with the intergenerational issues in immigration (the immigrant parents vs the children they have in the new country). The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai is another book involving Indian immigration to the US. I'm not sure if qualifies though. The author is an Indian citizen but a ...
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Golem's Eye by Jonathan Stroud
Fire in the Mind Science, Faith and the Search for Order by George Johnson
freakin' borders and Bookmooch doubled teamed me :)
... Celine
4: Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin
5: Murder in the Dark by Margaret Atwood
IN PROGRESS
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Collected Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
The Prussian Bride by Yuri Buida.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Ulys ...
... robber bride by Margaret Atwood 546 p. {reread}
13) questions i asked my mother by Di Brandt 64 p. {poetry}
14) The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai 324 p. {Book Club}
15) The two-headed calf by Sandra Birdsell 267 p. {nine short stories}
16) Wind ...
Well.............of those I've read I would have to vote for either Midnight's Children, The Inheritance of Loss , or The God of Small Things.
... Patchett (1138/3276)
5. Snow falling on cedars by David Guterson (1120/3457)
Books with similar tags
1. The inheritance of loss by Kiran Desai
2. The sea by John Banville
3. The god of small things by Arundhati Roy
4. Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
5. T ...
... Little
2004: Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty
2005: John Banville - The Sea
2006: Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss
2007: Anne Enright - The Gathering
Any thoughts?
... Borders with The Glory Days : New York Baseball 1947-1957 by The Museum Of The City Of New York for my husband, and with The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai and Ireland by Frank Delaney for me.
1. AWARD WINNERS
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran DesaiThe Gathering - Anne Enright
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Vanish - Tess Gerritsen
T ...
Dropped two books off at our office book case of books to borrow and picked up a new, HB copy of The Inheritance of Loss a book I've heard much about both here and at bookcrossing.
... I read it back in 1999, that book completely put me off reading books on India by the Indian authors. Last year I read Kiran Desai The Inheritance of loss and even though it was a lot better than The God of Small Things I still found it completely overestimated and not quite up to the B ...
I am enjoying The Inheritance of Loss and sure to finish it this afternoon. Perhaps I can get through Europe Central by William Vollmann next. It is a dense read and so far I haven't been as engaged as I would like to be, so I hope it is worth it.
It is good to hear that Life Class is ...
I own The Inheritance of Loss , but haven't read it yet. I'm not a big fan of Jodi Picoult. Her books are very much like Lifetime movies. You either dig them or you don't.
We only pick our books once at a time, so far we did Quarantine for January, and are doing Julie and Julia for Febru ...
My bookclub has done My Sister's Keeper and The Inheritance of Loss . Jodi Picoult's wasn't literature or anything but it stimulated some great conversation. My definition of a great bookclub book is one that provokes ideas that you want to talk about - what a not necessarily good book can ...
... Kennedy
That Lady by Kate O'Brien (a Virago Modern Classic!)
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama
Unless by Carol Shields ...
... We have read The Secret River and while our feelings were mixed, it was certainly thought to be worth reading. I read The Inheritance of Loss individually last year and it didn't do a lot for me. I think I am starting not to trust the opinion of the Booker Prize judges very much. The group ...
I guess I'm both. I give a book 5 chapters &/or 100 pages before I decide to jump. But I read Inheritance of Loss to the bitter end despite wanting badly to stop. I finished it so that I could tell the person who recommended it how much I despised that book. This my synopsis, everyone was ...
... sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
Restless by William Boyd
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Special topics in calamity physics by Marisha Pessl
Non-Fiction
Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
... Kate Jacobs
#4 previously A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
#7 previously The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
... y
While Christmas shopping for others:
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
... wanted to read a Booker/Pulitzer prize winner at the time it won to see if I agreed with the verdict. Last year I read The inheritance of loss by kiran desai, I got to page 100, thought it was rubbish, but decided to carry on (well it must be good, it won a prize). I got to page 200, ...
... k
Istanbul with My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk as well as Istanbul, Memories and the City
India and New York with The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Leningrad with The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
Russia with The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin
Algeria and Par ...
... with The flight of the maidens by Jane Gardam
Iran with Reading Lolita in Tehran by azar Nafizi
India with The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Ukraine with Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan safran Foer
Iraq with Fiasco by Thomas Ricks
Everywhere with Th ...
...
The first two were incredibly misogynistic, while Grendel was too nihilistic.
Books that didn't live up to the hype:
Inheritance of Loss felt like a school assignment.
The God of Small Things - I loved the writing in this, but the last two chapters were too much for me.
I'm really ...
Ok, of those I read that I consider POSSIBLY prize-worthy:
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Inheritance of Loss
Dreams of Speaking
Mister Pip
In the Country of Men
Digging to America
Measuring the World
Definitely NOT prize-worthy:
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Special Topics ...
Looking at the longlist (vs. avaland's library list above), I've read:
Half of a Yellow Sun
One Good Turn
The Inheritance of Loss
The Keep
What is the What
A Spot of Bother
The Road
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
While I liked most of these, I was disappointed in On ...
I was surprised to find how many of the books I've already read: Half of a Yellow Sun, The Inheritance of Loss , The Road, Alentejo Blue, One Good Turn, Water for Elephants, Black Swan Green, The Tenderness of Wolves, and The Thirteenth Tale. I'd say Half of a Yellow Sun was my ...
... Mister Pip, and Zoli are on my wishlist. I have read, in order of enjoyment (most to least) Half of a Yellow Sun, The Inheritance of Loss , and The Road.
It is an interesting list to mine--and I am off to increase my poor sagging wishlist!
... Wizard of the Crow already in my TBR pile and I have read Half of a Yellow Sun, Zoli, Mister Pip, The Road, and The Inheritance of Loss .
Has anyone read any of these?
btw, the list by nominating library is here .
... of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiong'o (several African countries, Russia and Ireland nominated it), the Booker Prize-winning Inheritance of Loss , Zoli (a personal fave of mine and nominated by Germany and one of two nominating US libraries closest to me), and Digging to America by Anne Tyler. ...
37. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Meh.
Pros: Not many novels use political struggles in India as a backdrop, and the history (something I didn't know) was fascinating. Characters were rich and varied and there were small, personal moments that brought each character into ...
I finished The inheritance of loss and was left with an overall feeling of melancholy - I loved the book and was impressed with the writing - but I am very sensitive in the first place to the loss of pets and that part alone was just heartbreaking. I really enjoyed the themes of the book, but ...
... from Oates' Wonderland. I could not believe the critical acclaim -- I thought it was abyssmal.
#29 keren -- loved Inheritance of Loss hope you enjoy!
... really say if I enjoyed it or not. It is a very odd book, sad and touching but puzzling.
I am now three pages into The inheritance of loss and am already enjoying the writing.
... to get a response. I think Ali's book takes place in India, but any book that treats the Subcontinent can have spillover. Inheritance of Loss in Kashmir is another that could be of interest in either country.
calvarez - I am one who liked The Inheritance of Loss , hope you do too.
I finished John Banville's The Sea but didn't really enjoy it. I am about to start The Island of Four Rivers by Christopher Morgan. Reviews have been good so I am hopeful.
... and Stiff:The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Mary Roach) this weekend, so I'm on to two new books.
1. The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai) -- fiction -- I've read mixed reviews of this book here on LT, but I have high hopes.
2. Whipping Girl (Julia Serano) -- ...
...
#124,125,127 etc -- count me in as one who loved The Namesake! I love Indian fiction for some reason. I recently loved The Inheritance of Loss which has seemed to have garnered alot of criticism here on LT.
I finished The Inheritance of Loss which I unequivocally loved, though I see mostly bad reviews here. I have just started Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
... order):
1. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
2. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamnada Ngozi Adichie
3. Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
4. In the Fall by Jeffery Lent
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseni
... history of the Civil War which wasn't that great.
Now I am back to reading more thoughtful stuff starting with The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai which I am enjoying so far.
... line: some of this book's ideas about class and friendship will stick with me, but over all it's pretty lackluster.
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
A book that started out well but didn't really do it for me in the end. The plot centers around a small, mostly aging group of ...
... some point in my youth, but it's been long enough that the books are almost new to me. Right now I'm trying to get through The Inheritance of Loss but am having trouble since I only have time to read in little spurts lately, so I really never got hooked. Maybe I should just go back to my Chronic ...
78. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The story of four people - the judge, who has failed to achieve his dreams; the cook, who has sacrificed to provide his son with the opportunities he never had; the son, who has been unable to fulfill his dream of immigration and the judge's ...
Started The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. I approached it with some trepidation after reading a lot of negative reports on LT, but after 50 pages, I'm quite enjoying it.
... fan, and I really like that his novels are becoming more introspective as he gets older.
I could not get engaged in The Inheritance of Loss and gave up on it about 1/3 of the way in. I'll get back to it someday.
... Saturday by Ian McEwan and finding it fascinating. Next up probably Marti Leimbach's Daniel isn't Talking or The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, or both if I get enough time.
#92 Marlisa, I gave up on The Inheritance of Loss about a third of the way in. You are right--unless it gets better after that point, nothing much happens and the characters are simplistic.
I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this already, but The Inheritance of Loss is one that I recently struggled to finish reading. Maybe it was a case of having read too many glowing reviews before I started, but I kept turning the pages waiting for it to get better and it never did.
Kiran D ...
hazelk, I was also disappointed with The Inheritance of Loss , but must admit that some of my favourite books have been Booker prize winners (or shortlisters). My all-time favourite is Atonement and, of last year's batch, I adored The Night Watch and The Secret River.
... Day in 1989 by Kazuo Ishiguro
OK, I won't go further back. Yes, there were some disappointments: I struggled through The Inheritance of Loss , last year's winner, by Kiran Desai to name just one example.
And this year's Orange Prize winner, Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adi ...
I went a little nuts at Half Price Books:
Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
I also hit Costco and got Peony in Love by L ...
Eventually completed The inheritance of loss . Mixed feelings about it. Took me three attempts to even get past the first eight chapters. I only struggled on because a friend told me it was a great read. By the time I got to the end of the novel, I still wasn't sure whether I liked it or not! ...
... it an emotive and heart-warming read. I can't believe it has taken me this long to pick it up!
Will probably move onto The inheritance of loss although I have heard it can be a bit hard-going.
PS I think good luck is probably the most appropriate. I think I'm going to need lots of it!
...
My reading lined up for the next couple of weeks is:
A short history of tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
The inheritance of loss by Kiran Desai
The remains of the day by Kazuo Ishiguro
A certain justice by P D James
... I'm sure you all understand. :)
But, taking a break from trying to add books to my collection, here's an easy one.
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Killing the Lawyers by Reginald Hill
Ward Number Six and Other Stories by Anton Chekov
Internal Combustion: The Story of a Mar ...
... : a Novel: Sara Gruen
17. Talk Before Sleep: Elizabeth Berg
18. Nineteen Minutes: Jodi Picoult
19. The Inheritance of Loss : Kiran Desai (in progress)
Le Divorce
Collapse
Decline and Fall
Struck by Lightning
The Inheritance of Loss
They have it in that 3 for 2 sale at Borders right now. I picked up that, Three Cups of Tea, Eat, Love, Pray, Inheritence of Loss , and too many others....
... same time.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte- I must have read this book many times and still find it fresh each time.
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
A heartbreaking story told very well.
#24 I had the same response to The Inheritance of Loss . I put it down at the midpoint.
... with the Thailand (Footprint Travel Guide) I also managed to acquire Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday and The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. So much for forswearing bookshopping until the unread pile has diminished slightly.
#102 cestovatela: I really liked The Inheritance of Loss too!
I'm in 17th century China right now with Peony in Love - Lisa See's new book.
... 5 favourites -
On Beauty by Zadie smith
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini
Physically, I'm in Thailand but my imagination is in Kashmir in The Inheritance of Loss . I've heard some people complain that it's slow to start, but I'm already gripped by the beautifully descriptive prose. In the last two days, I've been to a boarding school in Alabama with Looking for Alaska ...
In Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, one of the two main characters is an Indian man living as an illegal immigrant in New York.
#58 Hazelk: I read Inheritance of Loss this year and liked it quite a bit (rated it a 4.25 on a scale of 5). I thought it was a difficult novel to read, but the writing was sheer beauty; and ultimately, after reading it and letting the underlying message marinate, I came to really appreciate the ...
>45; I'd be interested in your opinion re The Inheritance of Loss . Having finished it I still can't make my mind up. It certainly pressed all the right buttons for the judges here for the Booker Prize.
... religious and political history, and its relations with the rest of the world. I'm also about a third of the way through The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.
From the Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.
"Old-fashioned books is what I like. Not the new kind of thing, no beginning, no middle, no end, just a thread of...free-floating plasma"
One of the old Anglophile inhabitants of Kalimpong speaking.
From the Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.
"Old-fashioned books is what I like. Not the new kind of thing, no beginning, no middle, no end, just a thread of...free-floating plasma"
One of the old Anglophile inhabitants of Kalimpong speaking.
... soon be moving on to greener pastures where store clerks can tell the difference between fiction and non...
I picked up The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, The Places in Between by Rory Stewart and, based on the strength of LT recommendations, The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Se ...
The Inheritance of Loss
Books were making her restless. She was beginning to read, faster, more, until she was inside the narrative and the narrative inside her, the pages going by so fast, her heart in her chest-she couldn't stop. In this way she had read To Kill a Mockingbird, Cider ...
Having left Biafra yesterday I'm now in north-east India (and occasionally New York) with The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai and, touch wood, am so far really enjoying it.
I've just started The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai which I'm really looking forward to.
Two books collected yesterday:
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Still trying to finish Half of a Yellow Sun.
I really liked The Inheritance of Loss I am now reading Consolation by Michael Redhill I like the material on early Toronto but find that the structure is not as interesting as that of his first novel Martin Sloane
The Inheritance of Loss was okay; I'm coming back to Canadian fiction with As If By Accident by Julie Johnston. Will also start Suite Francaise tomorrow; I'll be reading it aloud to my husband as we commute.
... army in WWI. And, Rare Birds by Edward Riche. Light, funny reading.
I'm taking my reading offshore now with The Inheritance of Loss but I"ll be back!!
... read The Tipping Point!
I've just finished Three Day Road and Rare Birds; two Canadian novels. I am about to start The Inheritance of Loss which won the Man Booker Prize in 2006
... books. I do like to read longer reviews but usually AFTER I've read the book. For example, I went back and read reviews on The Inheritance of Loss after I had read the book and found they enhanced my understanding of what I had read greatly. I've not really read many literary blogs, except for ...
... Really! It was all just a matter coincidence. I am the proud new owner of:
Eldest by Christopher Paolini.
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.
I was trying to hold off until the GreenValley Bookfair's re-opening on May 12th. ...
I thought The Inheritance of Loss was beautiful. She is great at pulling you into a place, a feeling, and sweeping you along to the next one. Michael Ondaatje does the same for me. You have the feeling of imminent heartbreak the whole time, but you don't want to stop.
rebeccanyc-The Inheritance of Loss but it did leave me feeling sort of stranded, or maybe abandoned is the right word, at the end. I felt the same at the end of Shalimar the Clown. I loved them both, anyway. Which may explain why I felt that way - I got so caught up in them. I wanted answers, ...
... by Markus Zusak- thank you LT readers for the suggestion!- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and I am now reading The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
I think I'm one of the few people who actually really liked Desai's The Inheritance of Loss . I found her writing simply beautiful; and some of the confusion I felt initially stemmed from some of my ignorance of Indian culture and caste systems and history - that said, I believe the book was more ...
I've read Half of a Yellow Sun and The Inheritance of Loss and am a huge Anne Tyler fan.
I loved, loved, loved Adichie's work and my vote would have to go to her for just overall excellence. Unlike a lot of people, I enjoyed Desai's novel - I found it to be a thoughtful read with ...
I recently read The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai - touches on this subject. Well written -
... my fingers crossed for Half of a Yellow Sun, but I haven't read any of the others except the disappointing (for me) The Inheritance of Loss . Read a lot of Anne Tyler years ago and wouldn't put her in Adichie's league.
... fiction has been announced.
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
The Observations by Jane Harris
Digging to America ...
... are:
Adult Fiction Honor Books:
Kevin Brockmeier's The Brief History of the Dead: A Novel
Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss
Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise
Adult Nonfiction Honor Books:
Bill Bryson's The Life and Times ...
Put me down as another person who loved The Inheritance of Loss , but I admit that it's one of those books that slowly grew on me as I went along. It wasn't until a few months later that I realized how much the story and the lyricism stuck with me.
I really enjoyed The Observations, and ...
... a goal to read 11 from the 2006 notable fiction list. So far I have read: Black Swan Green (touchstone not loading), The Inheritance of Loss , Suite Francaise Half of a Yellow Sun, and Old Filth.
I've enjoyed all of these to varying degrees, but I'd say Half of a Yellow Sun and ...
... contrast between the daily lives of a post colonial people and the expectation that in USA or England a better life awaits, The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai paints a picture that is painful to read. This Booker Prize winning novel is worth the time!
Oh, I liked The Inheritance of Loss . I thought it was beautifully written, and that the countryside was almost as much of a character as the people. It had a much broader scope than I was expecting. I particularly liked switching between the perspectives of the characters in India and the one in N ...
wow, the inheritance of loss again. funny, i know only One person who hasn't hated it.
very excited that a concise chinese-english dictionary for lovers got in there - it is a spectacular novel.
I've read The Inheritance of Loss , The Observations, Carry Me Down and Digging To America. Of these Diggiing to America is my favourite. Think I must read Half of a Yellow Sun because of all the good reviews.
... Half of a Yellow Sun
Clare Allan Poppy Shakespeare
Rachel Cusk Arlington Park
Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss
Patricia Ferguson Peripheral Vision
Margaret ForsterOver
Nell Freudenberger The Dissident
Rebecca Gowers When to Walk ...
January
1 The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
2 Minaret by Leila Aboulela
3 Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew by Bernard Hare
4 Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
February
5 The Pillars of Hercules by Paul Theroux
6 Restless by William Boyd
7 Th ...
#2 The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (January): I chose this because it was the new Booker Prize winner, and because its location in northern India is close to where I once lived in Pakistan. It is an excellent take on the destructive effects of colonialism, showing how early cultural ...
Well, it just goes to show there's no accounting for taste. I found The Inheritance of Loss extremely disappointing and, as people here know, think Half of a Yellow Sun is one of the best new books I've read in years.
2006 Fiction winner is The Inheritance of Loss . More coming...
... reviews in my book journal:
7. Rest in Pieces - review
8. The Inheritance of Loss - review
Books Read: 8/50 (16%)
Pages Read: 2,954/15,000 (19.7%)
(I miss the ...
I just started The Inheritance of Loss this weekend. I usually like reading Booker Prize nominees and winners (this book won the prize in 2006), and I also enjoy reading books set in India. So not too far into it yet, but promising so far.
Next up for me are two I've requested from the library; we'll see which one comes available first:
1. Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
2. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
I finished Inheritance of Loss tonight. It was beautifully written. The countryside was as much a character as the people. It also had a much broader scope than I expected.
Now I'm going to start An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears, another LT-inspired read.
... The Sportswriter, and sort of felt I should before trying The Lay of the Land, but haven't been really motivated, and The Inheritance of Loss did very little for me -- liked some parts, didn't like it overall.
... ced.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The lay of the Land by Richard Ford
What Is the What by Dave Eggers
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
and Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie
Edited to say this is the fiction list, published in the NY Times. Will ...
... and I'm a reader who finishes (almost) everything, even if it costs me to do so.
Just finished Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss , winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize. It's very well-written but it's not compelling, not a page-turner, though it's well worth the read.
It's ...
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