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of moonflowers and memories by satya genre: poetry My 💭: [4/1/26 6.23 PM]  On this quiet gloomy Sunday evening, as I am opening the Notes app on my phone to write this review, I cannot help but feel gratitude for all that life has given me. This intricately designed thick shawl, this thermos, this reading nook, the uneventfulness of this evening. And of course, for poetry books like this. The poet has given a thorough introduction of what we may expect from this book at the beginning. She said that this book is for "those who see the world in metaphors and moments...". Most of us poetry readers, aren't we just that? Life is passing us by as we close our eyes each time we blink, yet somehow we hold onto all that life is with the essence of a few words and moments from ourselves and the nature just beyond us. This book is a collection of poems divided into three segments - whispers of the cosmos, echoes of the soul and tides of time. All these poems seem to be taken out fr...

10 minutes and 38 seconds in this strange world by elif shafaq genre: literary fiction, women literature My 💭: [4/1/26 9.44 AM] 🏅 My first read of 2026! My choice couldn't have been more perfect 💯. A 🏅 read. It feels very odd to write 2026 instead of 2025. I used to envision my life as an independent adult, stepping into this vast world and find my footing - something that little me could only dream of. 2026 used to feel like such an 'adult year'! And here I am, finally, lucky enough to witness it with my loved ones by my side. And yet so much has changed, so many stories ended, so many new began, so many still continuing. 1 book of life, yet so many parallel stories, strung together by time, each of them brimming with life. Tequila Leila, too, was a person of many stories. But sadly, it began with the end. This book, or Leila's story, was an amalgamation of so many aspects of her life - all connected by the memories her brain churned up in the last 10 min and 38 se...