_What The Body Remembers_

[rparvaaz]

I stopped reading it at pg 224, almost halfway through the book. 'Tis just too sad for me. It is well-written and hauntingly evocative of an India which no longer exists in cities. Set in Punjab in the 1930s, it is the story of two families as they go about the normal business of life, which back then meant getting married and having kids

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[itchyfidget]

I think the book would drive me nuts. I'm not really the type to agree with accepted notions of what constitutes appropriate feminine behaviour ;)

[rparvaaz]

The book is almost entirely about the accepted notions of female behaviour, and the chief tenet is 'don't give any trouble'. Stifling. I still have trouble breathing, I tell you...

[itchyfidget]

We could burn it, but that kind of behaviour has some unpleasant associations. Let's ... ignore it :)

[rparvaaz]

What a brilliant idea! You know, one would have thunk that I'd have learned that after plodding through the Hardys...

[anonymous]

I loved this book but found it very hard to finish for the same reasons. Gave it to mum to read who then gave it to my american auntie who took it back with her. Any other book I would have complained bitterly and loudly but this is not a book I could read again. It wanders off track in the last quarter and left me deeply unsatisfied so I'm off to steal Illum off Lal to re-read before Olympus arrives. -Lat

[rparvaaz]

Ilium is great. :)

And I'm going crazy trying to find Olympos. Glad you're ok, Lat. :)