Weekend Reads: What My Sister and I Are Reading this Weekend.

Hello! 

Do weekends even count anymore? 

Most days I wake up not knowing what day it is, it is only when I am journaling or using my planner do I even glance at dates. 

Well! 

I guess we are all in the same boat. 

Even though everyday is now like the weekend, we like to do a little something special to commemorate the weekends. 

A break from washing clothes. 

Cooking something special. 

Afternoon naps. 

& 

Reading something good. 

This is what my sister and I have been reading this weekend...well mostly today, yesterday was a bit of a TV and film day. Today has been a day full of reading. 

My Mother's Lover and Other Stories by Sumana Roy: I bought this book and two other yesterday since Bloomsbury India is having a weekend long sale on select titles. This one was on my wish-list since it cam out a couple of months ago. A collection of short stories, some set in my corner of the world (Dooars) and written by an author from those parts as well, Siliguri a neighbour and erstwhile rival of my hometown Jalpaiguri. 

I am about 46% done with this book and these stories mostly people suffering from some strange malady or other. I am really enjoying the writing, the stories and the very idiosyncratic people in these stories. 

Plot Summary: My Mother's Lover and Other Stories is a collection of fourteen stories about people who suffer from curious ailments: of a poet whose writing is seen to be an ailment by her family; an insomniac's experience with sleep therapy; a woman's obsession with getting rid of plastic; a woman in Darjeeling desperate for a drop of water; a student fixated on reading a love poem as the failed relationship of her parents; a young couple trapped in a student's hostel during the 1971 war; a Nepali student passionate about proving that Nepalis are not stupid; a mother who can no longer differentiate between her heart and her head; a young woman on the verge of suicide; a girl who's hidden her teeth in a palace garden; a girl who treats literature like astrology; a young lecturer who seeks fame but can't foresee how it'll destroy his life;

a singer with a mad harmonium; and two old lovers who are on a secret holiday until one of them finds out something quite unpleasant about the other. 

P.S: This book is available for only 99 bucks, so go get it if it sounds like something you'd enjoy. 

The Sun Sister by Lucinda Riley: My sister is reading the 6th book in the Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley. It's a series she enjoys immensely and we recently recommended this series on here as well. This one is a mammoth at around 800 pages so my sister is set for a day or two. She is completely hooked and really enjoying this story, even though this is not her favourite sister by a long shot. She was almost reluctant to buy this book. But she is enjoying her immensely. 

Plot Summary: To the outside world, Electra D’Aplièse seems to be the woman with everything: as one of the world’s top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous.

Yet beneath the veneer, Electra’s already tenuous control over her state of mind has been rocked by the death of her father, Pa Salt, the elusive billionaire who adopted his six daughters from across the globe. Struggling to cope, she turns to alcohol and drugs. As those around her fear for her health, Electra receives a letter from a complete stranger who claims to be her grandmother . . .

In 1939, Cecily Huntley-Morgan arrives in Kenya from New York to nurse a broken heart. Staying with her godmother, a member of the infamous Happy Valley set, on the shores of beautiful Lake Naivasha, she meets Bill Forsythe, a notorious bachelor and cattle farmer with close connections to the proud Maasai tribe. But after a shocking discovery and with war looming, Cecily has few options. Moving up into the Wanjohi Valley, she is isolated and alone. Until she meets a young woman in the woods and makes her a promise that will change the course of her life for ever.