Arundhati Roy Archives : BookerTalk

Six Degrees of Separation

Six degrees from the tipping point

June 6, 2018 BookerTalk 11 Comments Arundhati Roy, John Wyndham, Malcolm Gladwell, Nelson Mandela, Susan Hill, Wilkie Collins

Time for another round of Six Degrees of Separation in which the idea is to form a chain of connections

Six Degrees of Separation

From beauty myth to family jealousy in six steps

March 8, 2018 BookerTalk 5 Comments Arundhati Roy, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Colm Toibin, George Bernard Shaw, Henry James, Naomi Wolf, Neel Mukherjee, Six Degrees of Separation

What links The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf with Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady?

2017 goals Top Ten Tuesday

8 Favourite Reads of 2017 (so far)

June 30, 2017June 30, 2017 BookerTalk 34 Comments Arundhati Roy, Emily St John Mantel, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Han Kang, Lisa McInerney, Peter Carey, Ruth Ozeki, Willa Cather

8 novels that are my favourite reads of 2017

Kerala India

Book Reviews Man Booker Prize

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy [Booker Prize]

April 19, 2017 BookerTalk 29 Comments Arundhati Roy, Booker prize, Indian authors

The God of Small Things, the debut (and to date sole) novel by Arundhati Roy sparked a hoo-ha when it was announced