Weekend Reads: What I am Reading This Weeken

 Hello Loves! 

I haven't don't a Weekend Reads post in a while, and since I started a new week this weekend I figured I'd share what I am reading this weekend. 

French Lover by Taslima Nasrin: I'll be honest I wasn't the biggest fan of Lajja. I didn't enjoy it one bit, sure it was an important book about an important issue but I found it very dry and lacklustre. 

I read it back in 2013 and since then I haven't picked up anything else by the author. 

:( 

But I spotted this book on Book Chor while browsing and decided to give it a read, mainly because the plot sounded good. 

Plot Summary: A woman’s search for love and independence in a strange city far away from home. French Lover is the story of Nilanjana, a young Bengali woman from Kolkata who moves to Paris after her marriage to Kishanlal, a restaurant owner. Kishanlal’s luxurious apartment seems to Nilanjana to be a gilded cage, and she feels stifled within its friendless confines. Her marriage, where she functions as little more than a housekeeper and a sex object, is far from fulfilling and Nilanjana looks desperately for a way out of the boredom and depression that threaten to engulf her life. It is at this point that she meets Benoir Dupont, a blond, blue-eyed handsome Frenchman, and is swept off her feet. Benoir introduces Nilanjana to the streets, the cafes and the art galleries of Paris. In her passionate, sexually liberating relationship with Benoir, she finally begins to have an inkling of her own desires. The relationship ends when Nilanjana realizes that Benoir’s first priority is himself and not the woman he loves, and that her need for him has ended. But her road to self-discovery has only just begun. Bold in concept and powerful in execution, French Lover is a fascinating glimpse into the workings of a woman’s mind as she struggles to come to terms with her identity in a hostile world. 

Doesn't it sound amazing? 

I am a little bit in and I am quite intrigued with where this story is headed. 

Keeping my reading company is this very mood appropriate bookmark from Debdyuti Creates that I recently got. 

Books. 

Tea.

 Plants. 

&

Lazying around. 

I am still reading The Complete Adventures of Feluda Vol. I and enjoying every minute of it.