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happiness is something we cannot keep, unless we give it away

the wild goose chase, or rather escape revealed

the formulaic 'wrong' I had been waiting for...

it hits the reader before 'it hit him'

Venice- a slowly sinking outdoor museum

human race compared to surface algae- overpopulation sapping resources, preventing our survival reading tis during current crisis makes a gloomy read!

predictable... entertaining to know the mutations of his standard formula

Every giving can happen only because it is also a receiving...

loyalty is blind

'What is left to us if we lose our humanity?'

"The subtle energy of what you eat becomes your mind" - the Upanishads (shared in Annelie's Raw Food Power, Annelie Whitfield)

Those... are the famous Pages of Gup; that is to say, the army. Ordinary armies are made up of platoons and regiments and suchlike; our Pages are organized into Chapters and Volumes. Each volume is headed by a Front, or Title, Page; and up there is the leader of the entire "Library", which is our name for the army- General Kitab himself. *Kitab is Hindustani for book

catching the chicken to cook for supper was hilarious effort!

pollution-filth into the ocean (of stories) ... Khattam-Shud

as the expected, albeit heart-wrenching events unfold, I cant help concluding that we all are but slaves to destiny...

A Border-line case familiar sentiments of the heart... but tis leads to an unwanted truth, ripping the already wrenched heart

is Mary, the younger girl, carefree by nature, her innocent age or because she remains untainted by her mother's raged hateful declaration?

promising setting and plot were threatened by trying prose, but thankfully the characters come alive to pull you in following their destinies between the pages

- Not After Midnight overdrawn suspense...

- Don't Look Now What an ending! while I was 'distracted' observing similar self-inflicted torture of doubtful minds, missed the signs n as usual astounded by du Maurier's skilled denouement

Singapore really does boast one of the greatest public library systems in the world...

It was as though the sky had become a dark-tinted mirror for the waters of the tide country, with their myriad cross-cutting currents, eddies and whirlpools...

(320-321)
... eye's arrival

...the storm had given them what life could not, it had fused them together and made them one.

...words are like the winds that blow ripples on the water's surface. The river itself flows beneath, unseen and unheard.

It was sitting on its haunches with its head up, watching him with its tawny flickering eyes.... At first his terror was such that he could not move a muscle.

"life is lived in transformation."

Singapore, a city without bicycles. - have progressed n regressed simultaneously in the past 4 decades?

ahh, understanding what time is life really means- no time, no life....

all that matters in life... is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. when a person climbs higher..., owns more..., everything else comes automatically: friendship, love, respect... - FALLACY that's turning to reality these days....

reflection of current times n attitudes- methinks