Ben Saufley - Reading

Books I've Rated 4 / 5

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Down Among the Sticks and Bones

by Seanan McGuire

Finished 2018-10-14
The Stone Sky

by N.K. Jemisin

Finished 2018-09-28
Give People MoneyHow a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World

by Annie Lowrey

Finished 2018-09-13
Indian SummerThe Secret History of the End of an Empire

by Alex von Tunzelmann

Finished 2018-08-24

After having just finished [b:Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition 22827628 Midnight’s Furies The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition Nisid Hajari https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1407814080s/22827628.jpg 42381651], I was interested to read this book, which was discussed as a kind of compliment to that book—Midnight’s Furies being a more historical overview, Indian Summer being a bit more of a personal story. I think I enjoyed this book more than that one, for that reason—but I also found myself a bit more engaged here because of the personal stories woven into the history, where Midnight’s Furies at times felt like a long list of incidents of sectarian violence and while I liked that book and felt like I got some idea of the course of the history from it, this book helped me anchor these events in time a bit by connecting them a bit more to the personal stories that shaped them. Both books focused more on Nehru than on Jinnah, on India more than on Pakistan, so I’m curious to find a book that focuses more on the latter, because I feel like while both books appeared to work to be impartial, I only ended up with mostly one side of the story.An interesting subplot of this book was the light with which the author clearly viewed Gandhi, which was a lot less favorable than my (admittedly very broad) impression. He didn’t believe in germ theory and was (by this account) very weird about women! Interesting stuff, even if—as with all nonfiction—it only presented part of the picture.
Midnight's FuriesThe Deadly Legacy of India's Partition

by Nisid Hajari

Finished 2018-08-11
Firewalker

by Josephine Angelini

Finished 2018-08-04
The Death of Mrs. Westaway

by Ruth Ware

Finished 2018-06-26
Out of Spite, Out of Mind

by Scott Meyer

Finished 2018-06-25
Don't Let Go

by Harlan Coben

Finished 2018-06-22
Head On

by John Scalzi

Finished 2018-06-20
The Wife Between Us

by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

Finished 2018-06-17
The Outstretched Shadow

by Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory

Finished 2018-06-15
The House of Silk

by Anthony Horowitz

Finished 2018-04-01
The Blood Debt

by Duncan M. Hamilton

Finished 2018-02-22
Jorundyr's Path

by Duncan M. Hamilton

Finished 2018-02-19

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Books I've Rated 4 / 5

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Don't Let Go

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The Wife Between Us

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Down Among the Sticks and Bones

The Stone Sky

Give People MoneyHow a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World

Indian SummerThe Secret History of the End of an Empire

Midnight's FuriesThe Deadly Legacy of India's Partition

Firewalker

The Death of Mrs. Westaway

Out of Spite, Out of Mind

Head On

The Outstretched Shadow

The House of Silk

The Blood Debt

Jorundyr's Path