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Smitha Murthy

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Born
Bangalore, India
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My mission: Spread kindness and compassion.

Promote mental health awareness. Create more conversations around emotional abuse and trauma.

Support feminism.

Allow vulnerability.

Be kind. Be compassionate.

Always.

PS: My "reviews" here are just my feelings around a book, and do not reflect on the quality of the book. They are meant to help me recollect what I felt about a book and not guide you toward the buying of the book. Please support authors.

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Average rating: 4.15 · 39 ratings · 10 reviews · 2 distinct works
Worlds Apart: 2 friends, 2 ...

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4.20 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2006
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Life, Loss, and Puffins by Catherine Ryan Hyde
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An astonishing book that had me in its spell. It's rare to go wrong with a Catherine Ryan Hyde book and this doesn't disappoint. I love stories that place friendship on a pedestal, and I don't mean that in a bad way.

You don't get bored. In fact, you
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Sigh, Gone by Phuc  Tran
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Writing a memoir isn't easy. Not that I have tried writing one, but you know how it is. Phuc Tran has done something rare here. Written a memoir that is also a page-turner. You can't help but feel for him - the memoir stops at his entry to college, a ...more
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Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too by Jomny Sun
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Such a sweet, sweet book. Hard to dislike anything here. I only wish I had a paperback instead of finding this on Kindle Unlimited!

A keeper!
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The Housemaid is Watching by Freida McFadden
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It became all rather silly toward the end. A fast read. But that's about it. ...more
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Incendiary by Chris Cleave
Incendiary
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Such a weird book. I don't know why I kept reading but it got even more bizarre and I felt I had to reward myself for reading bizarre.

I understand the pathos of a mother losing a child. But...the grief was more incendiary than the actual bomb and the
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Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ
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I confess I didn't understand large parts of this book.

Having lived in China, I made the assumption of thinking that Mainland referred to China and got off to a bad start with that ignorance. Although the food descriptions were fantastic, I was at a
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Fly, Wild Swans by Jung Chang
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This is not a "magnificent sequel" to Wild Swans. It's tepid and more like a Tame Duck. (Sorry ducks!)

Instead of a memoir, the book veers into "this is how I wrote my next book!" Very little is revealed as a memoir that hasn't already been told in Wi
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When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzén
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It would be hard to dislike this gentle book. A meditation on death. On friendship and forgiveness. I cried a bit toward the end because I couldn't imagine anyone taking away my Khushi Bun from me and also for that great unknown we all fantasize abou ...more
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All This Light by Ashish Bagrecha
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Would it be fair to call this poet the male Nikita Gill? Because the style of writing reminded of the popular Insta variety of poems.

These are easy to read. And they make poetry accessible.
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Kate & Frida by Kim Fay
Kate & Frida
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A sweet novel that still packs these old-world values of compassion and kindness. Some of the pop culture references went over my head but I didn't care. Friendship and books.I can't go wrong with those. ...more
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“Lead a life of wonder and not wondering”
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“The more I work on happiness- the more I realize that you can’t seek happiness, you can’t find happiness- you simply have to remember to be happy.”
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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
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“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
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“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
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“It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.”
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“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
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