Living the thuglife with Dr. Strangelove CC#3 **Invited members ONLY** - Page 45

Originally posted by: Intoxicator

Wait, are you telling us you're going to regret hob-nobbing with us forum riffraff when this phase passes???💔

Not the CC baba. The watching.

One book that I really liked and that was feel-good but not in a sappy way was Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Part of the plot involves a fangirl obsession that might seem familiar...

Originally posted by: austen-eliot

I find now I can only read light works if I'm going in for fiction.. Anything heavy, political, social issues etc., or stuff that has any gore and all I don't want.. I just am not able to handle it.. Even movies and serials.. It must mean that I miss out on most of the best works but 🤷‍♀️

And contemporary these days all has just this kind of content.. So I don't know what to recommend you.

I stick to the oldies, they are more sensitive 😬 and whatever I read of contemporary is just chick lit.. There now you know my vice! ☺️

The Year of Magical Thinking just left me a sobbing mess but what a book!

I liked White Teeth but On Beauty didn't resonate with me as much. Apparently she was inspired by EM Forster's Howards End which is also one of my favorite books.

Originally posted by: Ekahriz

Lol. I just go to get some things done for 10 minutes and there are already so many pages gone by. 😆

I love reading Zadie Smith. On Beauty is really funny. I love the way it makes fun of academia. Joan Didion is amazing yes.

Originally posted by: bakwaspolice

I read this book called Love in the time of Affluenza about rich Indian housewives in Bombay who think their husbands are having an affair which was super funny

Another vice of mine is I like reading these new interpretations of Draupati, Soorpanakha etc by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. 😆

OH!! What a fantastic idea! I read the one on Draupadi - it was great.
Have you read any Madeline Miller - she rewrites Greek mythology from the point of view of the 'evil' women. Like "Circe".

Originally posted by: Ekahriz

Another vice of mine is I like reading these new interpretations of Draupati, Soorpanakha etc by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. 😆

Originally posted by: bakwaspolice

which ones 🤪

I wouldn't be able to read them in the original (actually my dirty secret is I cannot read or write very well in Devanagri script despite my parents hiring tutors to teach me for years...). I have read some of Saadat Hassan Manto's short stories.

Originally posted by: SnowWhite_97

I like to read urdu novels🤧

Originally posted by: SnowWhite_97

I like to watch Pakistani dramas and Pakistani dramas are based on Urdu novels. Parizaad, Humsafar aur Aangan favorite novels hai

oh I didn’t know they are based on books probably that’s why they are better than Indian shows

Oh my God, talking of Indian shows... Two years ago, I started watching Saraswatichandra which is supposedly based on a novel but I could not stand the male lead. Although that led to my watching Bepannah because Jennifer Winget was so pretty and charming in it. Had to stop watching the show though - clearly they went left of the novel pretty soon🤣

Originally posted by: bakwaspolice

oh I didn’t know they are based on books probably that’s why they are better than Indian shows