#parini

[arzuhome8991]

#use #parini #cookware #home #home improvement

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

“Mythos, in Greek,” said Borges, “is not a story that is false. It is a story that is more than true. Myth is a tear in the fabric of reality, and immense energies pour through these holy fissures. Our stories, our poems, are rips in this fabric as well, however slight.”

Jorge Luis Borges, quoted by Jay Parini in Borges and Me

#book quotes #jorge luis borges #literature #mythic #myth #quotes #books and libraries #writing #poetry quotes #jay parini #Borges and me

[girlactionfigure]

#Israel #Palestinian terror #Tel Aviv #Iran #Alessandro Parini

[ojo-rojo]

Anna Parini: Para memorialle della Shoa.

#Anna Parini

[rachel-sylvan-author]

Wholesome Women and Girlhood Friendships ❤️ “The Switch” by Beth O’Leary “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott “Anne of Green Gables” by L. M. Montgomery “Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers” by Jesse Q. Sutanto “The Bandit Queens” Parini Shroff “Kaikeyi” by Vaishnavi Patel “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen “Bookshops & Bonedust” by Travis Baldree “A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking” by T. Kingfisher “Nettle & Bone” by T. Kingfisher

#girlhood #women friendships #women books #diverse books #diverse authors #women authors #The Switch #Beth O'leary #Little Women #louisa may alcott #Anne of Green Gables #l. m. montgomery #Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers #jesse q. sutanto #The Bandit Queens #Parini Shroff #Kaikeyi #vaishnavi patel #Pride and Prejudice #Jane Austen #A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking #T. Kingfisher #nettle and bone #Wholesome #Girlhood

[madhyanas]

whats that? little miss 'hasn't read fiction in years' just finished TWO NOVELS in ONE WEEK? groundbreaking.

#RAAAAAAGH #the bandit queens by parini shroff is INSANELY good btw cannot recommend it enough. mad funny + insightful #tings

[bookcoversonly]

Title: The Bandit Queens | Author: Parini Shroff | Publisher: Ballantine Books (2023)

#books #The Bandit Queens #Parini Shroff

[huariqueje]

Ugo and Parini   -  Achille Funi , 1932.

Italian, 1890-1972

Pastel and mied media on paper canvas , 93  x 72 cm.

#Achille Funi #italian artist #double portrait #Ugo and Parini

[bookloure]

It's a wrap! ✨

I've really become that person who reads more than 10 books monthly. Lol.

But I realized this is who I really am as a person. And I'm grateful for all my parasocial relationships that raised my reader self back from the dead.

Here's a wrap-up and stats of all the books I finished in April!

5⭐

📖 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

📖 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

📖 The House at Pooh Corner by AA Milne

📖 The World of Christopher Robin: The Complete When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six by AA Milne

4.5⭐

📖 The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

4.25⭐

📖 Shiver: Collected Stories by Junji Ito

4⭐

📖 Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

📖 Ways of Seeing by John Berger

📖 A Bottle of Storm Clouds: Stories by Eliza Victoria

📖 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

3.75⭐

📖 Winnie-the-Pooh by AA Milne

📖 Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by Pádraig Ó Tuama

3.5⭐

The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation by Rainer Maria Rilke

Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris

3⭐

📖 Stuart Little by E.B. White

📖 Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire

💭 Fave reads are Jane Eyre and Catcher in the Rye; my least fave is Bless the Daughter.

💭 Some of my favorite characters are Jane Eyre and Rochester; Holden and Phoebe Caulfield; Aunt Betsey; and Saloni.

💭 Definitely interested in reading future works of Parini Shroff! I enjoyed her debut novel so much. (:

#bookblr #booklr #reading wrap up #charlotte bronte #jd salinger #aa milne #parini shroff #taylor jenkins reid #john berger #eliza victoria #charles dickens #padraig o tuama #rainer mari #david sedaris #eb white #warsan shire

[ijustkindalikebooks]

currently reading.

#the bandit queens #parini shroff #books #booklr #bookblr #fiction #mystery #book cover #book covers

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

All my life, I have lived in books, in libraries. I remember every library in my life as I remember my lovers. Their smells, the texture of their skin, their taste, even the brightness in the air around them…or the darkness. Yes, every library is for me like a woman: erotic, a creature of the dark, full of smells and textures, tastes…

Jorge Luis Borges, Quoted by Jay Parini in Borges & Me

#book quotes #books and libraries #jorge luis borges #library #literature #books and reading #literary #quotes #bibliophile #jay parini #books

[theitcharchives]

Let’s play a lit game. Guess which of these 1700s/early 1800s Italian poets is who

The one who went to work abroad and refused to learn the language his whole life, forcing his imperial employer to learn his, writing all his work of 50+ years in Italian and keeping only a few select also Italian friends;

The one who founded a nowadays still existing academy for scholars and then ditched it when it started veering off path from what he intended;

The one who 99% of the time wrote poems about his imaginary muse, an older woman he supposedly had the hots for since he was a kid;

The one who chose violence and wrote about her emotionally cheating husband fixated on a past lover when everyone else liked to write about frivolous love and picnics;

The one who wrote such an important treatise on the justice system it was used as the basics to reform most European law codes but bailed on his first trip abroad to discuss it and refused to go see the tsarina because Saint Petersburg was too cold;

The three brothers–two who founded a lit circle whose discussions ended in fistfights, the older one paid n.5′s travel expenses and sent the middle one to make sure n. 5 didn’t make a fool of himself in front of the French senpais that had finally noticed them. Middle one failed and went on to England on his own. Youngest one is rumored to be the bio dad of the first Italian novelist, who’s also n.5′s grandkid;

The one who was born poor and worked as a preceptor, fought with his first employers and quit, wrote an extremely successful callout poem about nobility, tutored the guy who became the father figure of First Novelist Guy, and managed to keep his government job through two power shifts because he was just that good of an admin;

The one who was born filthy rich but fucking hated any power hierarchy and any stupid hypocritical enlightened monarch, wrote a fuck you for everyone he could manage including that sellout of n.1 who whored his poetry out to the Austrian tyrants, looked Frederick II the Great right in the eye and found him lacking, loved the French revolutionists at first but decided they’d become filthy tyrants themselves once they started killing everyone and made a mad escape from France, and wrote an autobiography that is frankly fucking hilarious;

N.8 and n.7 fanboy that never properly settled, changing city depending on the government, and preferred self exiling and dying in poverty abroad rather than work for the Austrian occupants that offered him a job;

 The one who stayed up at night to read n.8′s autobiography and then got so excited he wrote a sonnet about it even if he frigging hated sonnets and said he’d never write one. This poor sod was the most depressed sickly guy in the history of Italian literature, tried to run away from home but his overprotective dad busted his plan, had a thousands of pages long notebook, said poetry comes from pain and that half seen things are better than whole things because he was obviously biased by being a wet rag of a man that died young. I still love him;

“Fuck you, and fuck you, and fuck you, fuck you very popular organization, fuck you icon of literature, fuck you main cultural event of my century, and fu–no you’re cool actually–fuck you instead, and fuck you, and what’s this? Schadenfreude? For getting to say the ultimate fuck you to a very popular guy for criticizing my blorbo? Enjoyable. And fuck you. All my friends are important people. Fuck my family.”

#italian literature #italian poets #italian illuminism #here are the hints: #vittorio alfieri #metastasio #Giambattista zappi #Faustina maratti #pietro verri #Alessandro verri #giovanni verri #cesare beccaria #ugo foscolo #giacomo leopardi #giuseppe parini #gianvincenzo gravina #and another hint is that First Novelist Guy is Alessandro Manzoni #giuseppe baretti

[living400lbs]

“How are you not afraid? What if the police find out? We could go to jail!”

“No one is going to jail, Geeta. Me and Preity and Priya and even Farah aren’t afraid because we know that.”

“How?”

“Because we’re middle-aged housewives. Who’s more invisible than us? We can get away with murder. Literally. Once you realize that, you’ll stop whimpering like an incontinent baby raccoon.”

From The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

#the bandit queens #parini shroff #adventure #humor

[positivexcellence]

Genevieve Padalecki IG Live with Parini Shroff 2/6/23

#Genevieve Padalecki #parini shroff #gen book club

[booksonmoon]

Loving Karem's and Geeta's interactions

#The Bandit Queens #Parini Shroff

[oracleofmadness]

Thank you Netgalley and Publisher for this Arc!

This book was such an emotional Rollercoaster for me! All at once funny, sad, empowering and also infuriating at times.

Geeta is a bit of a pariah in her small village. Her husband left 5 years ago but the rumors all paint her as a vicious murderer. It seems that she has spent these years building a wall around herself, a safety from other's stares and dislike. However, Geeta becomes involved in an actual murder and finds herself in a bad situation. She will have to rekindle some friendships and step out of her comfort zone to get through a few difficulties.

There is so much to this story. It is completely fleshed out with amazing characters, customs and history. This was a difficult read for me at times because it broached topics of domestic abuse and rape but I still really enjoyed this due to the empowering tone I felt through this story.

Out January 3, 2023!

Content warnings for physical and sexual assault and murder, violence.

#book #bookish #books #bookworm #book review #currently reading #read #bookblogger #reading #literature #literary fiction #fiction books #netgalley review #netgalley #parini shroff #the bandit Queens