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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
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Title: The Bandit Queens | Author: Parini Shroff | Publisher: Ballantine Books (2023)
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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. (:
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“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
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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.
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Monthly Reading Summary – March 2024
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Book Club Book Review: The Bandit Queens by: Parini Shroff
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Title: The Bandit Queens
By: Parini Shroff
Cover: The cover was interesting enough. I think it went well with the story. I thought the black with the bright colors was fun and eye-catching.
Story: ★★★ This was a book club book so not my usual read. It takes place in a small village in India. Geeta the MC “lost” her husband five years before the start of the book. He just…
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Book Club Book Review: The Bandit Queens by: Parini Shroff
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Title: The Bandit Queens
By: Parini Shroff
Cover: The cover was interesting enough. I think it went well with the story. I thought the black with the bright colors was fun and eye-catching.
Story: ★★★ This was a book club book so not my usual read. It takes place in a small village in India. Geeta the MC “lost” her husband five years before the start of the book. He just…
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A Book-ish Round-Up, Part 2
Continuing my book-ish round up, in case you are looking for some recs!
1. The Book That No One Wanted to Read, by Richard Ayoade, illustrated by Tor Freeman.
I didn't want to read it either, oops. (I was not the target audience!)
2. I Have Some Questions for You, by Rebecca Makkai
It's a book set in the boarding school that the protagonist went to when she was a student (and is now teaching podcasting at). When she was in school, her ex-roommate was murdered and now her students want to make a podcast about it.
As someone who doesn’t care for true crime podcasts, I see the hype and it’s pretty good, but I find it difficult to review. If you like true crime, you might like it!
3. Skin Again, by bell hooks, illustrated by Chris Raschka
The illustrations are gorgeous and this is an important book!
4. Don't Want You Like a Best Friend, by Emma R. Alban
For fans of Bridgerton and Parent Trap (and Taylor Swift!), this is a cute little Sapphic Victorian rom-com.
So basically a book for me, I guess?
5. The Bandit Queens, by Parini Shroff
A book about a woman who is an outcast in India. She is thought to have murdered her husband and now some other wives want her help in murdering their husbands.
I love me a badass crime-doing woman (women!), sorry not sorry. It's sad and funny and it really picked up towards the end! Get ready with pitchforks guys.
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Mis lecturas de noviembre
Durante el mes de noviembre yo tenía planes de hacer progreso en mis retos de lectura. Un último empujón antes de que se me acabe al año.
Además, del dieciséis al vientinueve participé en el Mixtape Readathon – Cabin Edition. Y, aunque reconozco que no me lo tomé tan en serio como otras versiones, tampoco fue como que me fue tan mal.
Pero vamos a ver qué nos dicen los números.
Durante el mes…
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Review: The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff.
Freedom must look good on Geeta, because other women in the village have started asking for her help to get rid of their own no-good husbands...but not all of them are asking nicely.
Geeta's no-good husband disappeared five years ago. She didn't kill him, but everyone thinks she did--no matter how much she protests.
But she soon discovers that being known as a "self-made" widow has some surprising perks. No one messes with her, no one threatens her, and no one tries to control (ahem, marry) her. It's even been good for her business; no one wants to risk getting on her bad side by not buying her jewelry.
Reading the premise of this book I really thought I'd enjoy it, and enjoy it I did.
The humour is dark, the plot intriguing and the story has great depth that makes for a fantastic and catching read.
I really appreciated just how much research went into this book and how much detail went into the plotlines and people that form this book throughout - I feel like this is such an impressive debut and that I hope there's more mysteries from this author in the future.
Please check trigger warnings beforehand as there a few few particularly rape, abuse and cruelty, however I do think it is worth a read.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for an ARC to review.
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The unfortunate status quo is that it is tough for women everywhere, and female friendships are what will carry us through the darkness and absurdity of life. Such connections, however, are not always easily forged in a world keen to divide, mark, and label as "other." — Parini Shroff, in the Authors Note of her debut novel, "The Bandit Queens."
Five years ago, Geeta's abusive husband mysteriously disappeared, and the gossip in their small town is that she murdered him. Geeta was ostracized, but she never bothered to quell the gossip because she had grown to love the solitude. People left her alone. And she had more money than most of her neighbors. Without her husband using all their money to buy alcohol, she can now save up, bit by bit, to hopefully buy a refrigerator. Everything is well and good. That is until a neighbor approaches Geeta and asks her to help kill the neighbor's husband.
At its core, The Bandit Queens is a book about the power and the necessity of female friendships. And the sad reality of how hard it is for women to find and lean on each other because of the patriarchal system and our own internalized misogyny.
This book is both funny and heartbreaking, which I am very fond of. Some might find that disrespectful or making light of serious things, but I'd argue that mixing humor in the concoction makes the horrid more bearable (for the characters) and impactful (to us readers).
I finished this in April, so I don't recall many things superbly. However, one thing that struck me upon reading, and I still remember today, is the passage about sanitary napkins: "Geeta prevaricated. She didn't purchase pads; no one from their village did; they were prohibitively exorbitant. Even Geeta, who had few other expenses, couldn't reconcile paying six rupees per napkin." Before switching to menstrual cups, I would find the cheapest ones—Sisters and later Charmee—because I can't afford to bleed into three or so packs of 50-100PhP/pack sanitary napkins per month. That passage made me think about women in my own country who perhaps cannot spare 25PhP to buy the cheapest pack of napkins. And it just breaks my heart, the humiliation and injustice of not having access to those necessities.
This book also reinforced my belief that misandry is not the opposite of misogyny. Misandry is hatred of men. And it hurts very few men, compared to the damage done by its supposed counterpart. Misogyny is a systemic oppression that affects different aspects of our lives, even when we're not aware of it.
Content warnings for domestic violence. But if you enjoy reading about flawed characters, female friendships, and the murder of a bunch of men in a comedic spin, I highly recommend this book!
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Book Review - The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
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Before getting to the actual review, though, let me preface this by saying there’s been a considerably long gap between when I finished reading this and when I’m posting this review.
Book description (taken from Goodreads):
Geeta’s no-good husband disappeared five years ago. She didn’t kill him, but everyone thinks she did–no matter how much she protests.
But she soon discovers that being…
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Review: The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
Author: Parini ShroffPublisher: Ballantine BooksReleased: January 3, 2023Received: NetGalley
Book Summary:
We’ve all heard it before – when somebody dies (or goes missing), they all blame the spouse. Greeta is experiencing that firsthand. Her useless husband disappeared five years ago, and everyone still thinks she has something to do with it.
On the bright side, now that everyone thinks…
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