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Month: December 2020

Book Review: Love And Other Thought Experiments

December 26, 2020December 26, 2020 ~ Deepika ~ 2 Comments

...she took her ID and prepared herself for the retinal scanner. She wondered what the computer saw as the reader slid across her face. Pattern recognition or something more? Humans stared into each other's eyes for lifetimes, trying to gauge what the other was thinking, feeling. Will you be faithful to me? Will you be … Continue reading Book Review: Love And Other Thought Experiments

Of Reading and Other Demons

December 26, 2020September 19, 2021 ~ Deepika ~ 6 Comments

"I think of literature," she wrote, "as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but will never reach. And I have started too late. I will never catch up."-- The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett The reader in me surfaced in 2015. I was 28. It was the hardest year … Continue reading Of Reading and Other Demons

Book Review: Father of Lions

December 19, 2020 ~ Deepika ~ Leave a comment

By the time he was eighteen, Imad had discovered an immutable fact: animals were better than people. The war was at his door, the ISIS waited to behead him, and he was cooped up in his house along with his wife, and a lot of children. And none of those predicaments perturbed Abu Laith (Imad). … Continue reading Book Review: Father of Lions

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