Book Haul: Books of August 2023.

Hello Loves!

August was a month of more reading and very little book buying. I went nearly all month without buying a single book, because my reading for the month was more than sorted. I hate a basket full of books waiting for me and I had no real need for books.

But then I spent an afternoon bookshop hopping and of course didn't leave empty handed.

I bought a total of 7 books and here is a little haul.

I went to Granth Books in Juhu and went to the iconic Prithvi Theatre and browsed at their bookshop Paperback and picked some books.

Here they are.

A Korean historical fiction, that I mainly picked up for my sister who immediately picked it up and read it. A review will come soon. This is set in Korean and Hawaii and is about Picture Brides, basically a kind of arranged marriage between Korean girls and Korean men that were immigrants in the US. I was drawn in by the cover and I am so glad the book is beautiful inside as well.

This book was on my radar for a while and when I saw it in person, I decided to pick it up. This has so much buzz and I have heard nothing but good things about it, so I am very excited to pick it up.

An Anita Desai I had never even heard of!

So of course I picked it up.

I read pretty much all of Anita Desai's work in a year (back in 2016-17) and it's been a while since I've read her, so this will get read soon.

Picked this up at Prithvi and I am very excited to read and learn about this heady romance.

Ray and Apu, what's not to love?

Read already and loved very much.

Some Shanta Gokhale and a book set in my city.

This sounds so good and I am hoping I love it.

Its about friendship and the city.

And finally picked up something from the Booker Long List.

This one sounds good and it's about a mum and daughter and I am hoping this one is good and a decent way to kick off some Booker Prize reading for 2023. Frankly, the list is completely alien to me, I haven't read anything from it and I haven't even looked up the books.

But now that my month of only Indian Books is up, I could look into some Booker Books.

BOOKS BOUGHT:

The Zigzag Way by Anita Desai

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer

The Picture Bride by Lee Guem-yi

Amrita-Imroz by Uma Trilok

Crowfall by Shanta Gokhale

All The Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

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