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  • The relic

    The relic

    “Baba what is this?” asked Leena as she peered into the glass case. What she saw made her gasp in delight and an inexplicable itch began in her hand, one of wanting to possess the relic. Leena’s father hushed his voice and said, “That Leena is what our ancestors used to call a book. People

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  • Rediscovering Reading #MondayMusings

    For someone whose livelihood depends on reading, I read few books in 2018 – so few that I had a meltdown and immediately decided to make a shorter TBR list from my never-ending pile of TBR to help focus the reading in 2019. All was going well. I spent a wonderful December picking and choosing

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  • A gift for me

    A gift for me

    The door opens and I walk in, almost in a daze. I get a few smiles – from a guard to my left who seems to understand exactly what I am feeling…like he has been here long enough, observing similar souls with similar expressions.

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  • For the love of books

    For the love of books

    A book that I loved – an impossible question to answer for any bookworm. So I decided to make my job easier. To prevent my poor brain from going into a tizzy I asked myself another question instead – if you had to recommend a book, which one would you recommend? That considerably reduced the

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