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  BOOK REVIEW: Home – Manju Kapur | Coming Back To Me
    Books | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | Relationships

    BOOK REVIEW: Home – Manju Kapur | Coming Back To Me

    December 7, 2022December 16, 2023
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    A lovely return to my late 20s where books absorbed me with a rigour I did not experience in my social or professional life. It was like coming home.

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  Finding Myself In My Body: Reclaiming Pain
    Body & Sex | Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Poetry | Politics & Feminism

    Finding Myself In My Body: Reclaiming Pain

    December 2, 2022September 17, 2023
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    A house that is a warzone. A courtroom for custody battles. Dumping ground for other people’s pain. My body.

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  A Truce With Gender
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    A Truce With Gender

    November 19, 2022March 28, 2023
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    If I were fifteen years younger, I’d identify as nonbinary. Gender has been the biggest weapon of the beaten path.

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  Two Cities I’ve Loved – Bangalore & Mumbai
    City | Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Poetry

    Two Cities I’ve Loved – Bangalore & Mumbai

    November 11, 2022September 17, 2023
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    Feeling the tug between two places – one that feels like home and one that is dutifully home.

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  Sympathetic Losses & The Empathy Monster
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    Sympathetic Losses & The Empathy Monster

    November 10, 2022September 17, 2023
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    I have poems by old lovers,
    not about me
    not the loves,
    not the poetry.

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  Second COVID Stupid – Smooth Egg Brain
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    Second COVID Stupid – Smooth Egg Brain

    November 5, 2022July 22, 2024
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    The second dark COVID of my soul is here except it doesn’t feel quite as dark. I feel stupid and it is peaceful.

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  Review ‘From Scratch’ On Netflix: Focaccia & Fortitude
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    Review ‘From Scratch’ On Netflix: Focaccia & Fortitude

    October 30, 2022April 14, 2024
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    ‘From Scratch’ on Netflix made me realise the world doesn’t know how & why death shows up. How can we answer why people turn out as they do?

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  Fearlessly Flying With Erica Jong
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    Fearlessly Flying With Erica Jong

    October 27, 2022October 9, 2023
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    Giving sex an easy place in my mind, required moving around the furniture inside my head – old traumas, inherited shame, cultural taboos. This book taught me flying.

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  The Wealth Of Stories – #TodaysTale
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    The Wealth Of Stories – #TodaysTale

    October 23, 2022April 21, 2023
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    Daily stories for wisdom & grace in the form of #TodaysTale

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  Evaporation – The Marie Kondo of COVID
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    Evaporation – The Marie Kondo of COVID

    October 21, 2022February 27, 2025
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    Surviving my second COVID-19 bout in 3 months, an evaporation of fears. From the dungeon of despair to finding trust & purpose.

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  • IdeaSmith on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “@Harshaman: What a delightful set of throwbacks it was to receive this comment! First, to the days when one would…”
  • Harshaman on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “Which for me means, looking back at the past with a discerning and curatorial eye I had been thinking about…”
  • Neha Kapoor on Unlikeable Women: It’s Okay To Dislike Her, But Respect Her: “You always have such good book recommendations!”
  • IdeaSmith on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “@Soumya: Thank you for reading and commenting. Yes, I’ve had a good male role model. Unfortunately for me, I’ve encountered…”
  • IdeaSmith on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “@krist0ph3r: ‘Judgement as mental shorthand’ is a great way to look at it. It’s narrow to think of judgementalism as…”
  • Soumya on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “Hi Ramya, Firstly, my congratulations on a well written post. It didn’t pull its punches. Secondly, it was lovely to…”
  • krist0ph3r on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “Wow, that was a lot to process and at some point it got too much for me to handle reading.…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Sid: Oh god, you’re right.”
  • Sid on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “I think the Poser Reader sentiment also comes from the branding reading as a hobby has had. Successful people say…”
  • Topher on Lit Crush: Gabrielle Zevin ‘s Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry: “I too struggle greatly with problematic people who make great things. As a child Bill Cosby brought YEARS of joy…”

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