#alka joshi

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“…I don’t always know what I’m doing. I try something. If it doesn’t work, I try something else. None of us are perfect, are we? But we have to keep trying to be our best selves. You are on your way to the top. You’ll make some missteps, but that’s normal. Mostly; you’re going to do things you didn’t even know you were capable of.”

-Lakshmi

The Perfumist of Paris by Alka Joshi

[good-books-to-read]

Travel Destination: India

The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri

Vishnu, the odd-job man, lies dying on the staircase of an apartment building while around him unfold the lives of its inhabitants: warring housewives, lovesick teenagers, a grieving widower. In a fevered state, Vishnu looks back on his love affair with the seductive Padmini and wonders if he might actually be the god Vishnu, guardian of the entire universe.

The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

Five years ago, Geeta good for nothing husband walked out leaving her, however the local villiage believe she killed him.

This untrue rumour has some perks, no one messes with her, harasses her or tries to control her (aka marry her), it’s even great for business nobody dares not to buy her jewellery.

However it does have it downside because other women are asking for advice on “losing” their husbands as well and some aren’t asking nicely.

The Marvelous Mirza Girls by Sheba Karim

 To cure her post–senior year slump, made worse by the loss of her aunt Sonia, Noreen is ready to follow her mom on a gap year trip to New Delhi, hoping India can lessen her grief and bring her voice back.

The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi

Lakshmi Shastri has spent years carving out a life for herself as a henna artist after fleeing her abusive husband and backward rural village for the Rajasthan capital.

Well-versed in apothecary and the miraculous properties of herbs, her services are highly sought after by upper-caste women, and Lakshmi’s success brings her within inches from her goal: total independence. That is, until the past she has so desperately tried to run from comes knocking at her door...

The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey

Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a legal education from Oxford.

While handlings the will of a wealthy mill owner, Perveen comes across something strange all three widows have sighed away their inheritance to charity, how will they survive with nothing Are they being taken advantage of by an unscrupulous guardian? Perveen tries to investigate and realizes her instincts about the will were correct when tensions escalate to murder. It's her responsibility to figure out what really happened on Malabar Hill, and to ensure that nobody is in further danger.

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Inspired by The Henna Artist Author Talk ~ An Afternoon with Alka Joshi ~ the final event for Thousand Oaks Library One City, One Book 2024 The Henna Artist. It was a great afternoon hearing from this brilliant and engaging author, the perfect finish to a fabulous book (and trilogy)

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Ms. Joshi

Hey Alka… Small Favor…. Could you get ahold of David F. Lee 3rd for me???

Do you or he or anyone have about 400$ I can mooch/barrow/beg/steal???

I need to sue him for divorce. I win everything due to his certain abuses. Even any claims to royal or noble titles, also any foreign holdings if any, and I get all his silver, gold, jade, and real-estate. Too the stress and psychological trauma of his doings while my family are being such raging idiots. Because I do need a cat and medication and psychotherapy.

I need a cellphone to interview with and I need to get state I.D. (Im in Kansas). I am using public resource at the moment. A company in San Francisco wants to give me a job interview and I am to call them over the phone. Wichita is in the middle of tribal and political war and most cellphone lines are cut, while the towers are buzzing and overloaded.

You know… an even thou or ten would work too. Because you know, there is need for me to make a few Amazon purchases and burn all the clothes I am wearing, I found them in the woods after enemy insurgents camping there where killed or incarserated. I also have a couple bottles of peyote extract in massage mineral oil I found while bog trotting. I think both bottles are 8 ounces, they might be 12. I donno.

Should I get the job and travel or get everything together, I can happily and easily send you one….

should you want?

Everyone is a hacker and everyone is radioactive.

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VoIP (582)777-JOHN

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We Are The Authors

Of Our Lives “Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of courage.” Brené Brown The alarm goes off at exactly 6:30 am. Mercy me. It takes a minute to figure out where I am and how the hell to turn off that appalling noise.  After pushing every square…

[elireadsalot]

The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi

The Henna Artist explores the life of a woman named Laxmi who aspires to be self made and gain independence from her abusive husband, Hari.

“Success was ephemeral—and fluid—as I’d found out the hard way. It came. It went. It changed you from the outside, but not from the inside. Inside, I was still the same girl who dreamed of a destiny greater than she was allowed. Did I really need the house to prove I had skill, talent, ambition, intelligence?"

It is a most poignant read that accurately portrays to the reader the struggles and triumphs of a woman striving to make her place in a man's world. While the trope may sound overdone or cliche, the author does a great job in making the narrative original. Set in Jaipur, after the Independence Era of India, the book also describes the exquisite artiste culture of the Pink City. The author strings a group of well-written characters into a well-written plot that is driven by Laxmi's internal conflicts after her sister, Radha, who she did not know exists, turns up at her door. The henna artist's life spirals beyond her control and she struggles to bring it under her grasp.

The story that follows is an extremely thought-provoking yet wholesome read, necessary for every read to have read atleast once in their life. I, for sure, know that I will be coming back for multiple rereads of this book.

Rating: ★★★★★(5/5)

Review by Elizabeth Turner

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Book Review: The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi

When I saw this book in the recommendation section in my Libby app, I was just drawn to the cover and the title of this book. I know we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover but I did judge this book by its cover and name. The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi is a book dated back to the 1950s when India just got its independence and so many changes were taking place in the country. This story is not…

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Title: The Perfumist of Paris | Author: Alka Joshi | Publisher: MIRA (2023)

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Book Showcase: THE PERFUMIST OF PARIS by Alka Joshi

Read an #excerpt from the recently released THE PERFUMIST OF PARIS, book 3 in the Jaipur Trilogy by @alkajoshi. #fiction #historicalfiction #ownvoices #blogtour #MIRABooks #HTPBooks #recommendedread @HarlequinBooks @HarperCollins

The Perfumist of Paris, The Jaipur Trilogy #3, by Alka JoshiISBN: 9780778386148 (Hardcover)ISBN: 9780369718495 (eBook)ISBN: 9781488218057 (Audiobook)ASIN: B0B623PM6Y (Audible audiobook)ASIN: B09ZPPPSGV (Kindle edition)Page Count: 384Release Date: March 28, 2023Publisher: MIRA BooksGenre: Fiction | Historical Fiction | Own Voices “A stunning portrait of a woman blossoming into her full power…this…

[imlivingmylife]

“The measure of us isn’t in the day-to-day. And it’s not in our past or our future. It’s in the fundamental changes we make within ourselves over a lifetime.”

-Lakshmi

The Perfumist of Paris by Alka Joshi

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Figured that now that I've got a bookblr, I should make a post about the Read the World Challenge I'm doing! I'm reading a book primarily set in every country, doing my best to focus on authors from said country, though I will read diaspora authors if that's not feasible. Also some of the books from early on were from diaspora authors because I was pulling from books I had already read; I'll likely read more books from those countries in the future if I can. I've got 52 countries so far, and I'll list the titles and countries under the cut

USA- Kindred by Octavia Butler- 5⭐️

Canada- The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline- 5⭐️

Trinidad and Tobago- The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull- 3⭐️

Brazil- Where We Go From Here by Lucas Rocha trans by Larissa Helena- 5⭐️

Argentina- Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica trans by Sarah Moses- 5⭐️

South Africa- The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden- 3⭐️

Nigeria- Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor- 4⭐️

Liberia- Dream Country by Shannon Gibney 5⭐️

France- Romance in Marseilles by Claude McKay- 2⭐️

UK- Watership Down by Richard Adams- 5⭐️

Ireland- Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen- 4⭐️

Qatar- Love from A to Z by SK Ali- 4⭐️

Iran- Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram- 4⭐️

China- The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu trans by Ken Liu- 5⭐️

Taiwan- Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen- 4⭐️

Japan- Confessions by Kanae Minato trans by Stephen Snyder- 3.5⭐️

Norway- Survival Kit by AH Haga- 4.5⭐️

Germany- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak- 4.5⭐️

India- The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi- 4⭐️

South Korea- The Mermaid from Jeju by Sumi Hahn- 4⭐️

Columbia- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez trans by Gregory Rabassa- 4⭐️

Ghana- Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey- 4⭐️

Turkey- 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak- 4⭐️

Russia- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy trans by Louise Maude- 4⭐️

Sierra Leone- The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna- 4⭐️

Austria- The Wall by Marlen Haushofer trans by Shaun Whiteside- 5⭐️

Zimbabwe- Nervous Conditions by Tsiti Dangarembga- 5⭐️

Venezuela- It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo trans by Elizabeth Bryer- 4⭐️

Chile- The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende trans by Magda Bogin- 5⭐️

Sri Lanka- Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai- 4⭐️

Singapore- How We Dissappeared by Jing-Jing Lee- 4.5⭐️

Malaysia- Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf- 3.5⭐️

Egypt- A Master of Djinn by P Djèlí Clark- 4.5⭐️

Sudan- Ghost Season by Fatin Abbas- 4.5⭐️

Antigua and Barbuda- At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid- 4⭐️

Ukraine- The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh- 5⭐️

Bahamas- Learning to Breathe by Janice Lynn Mather- 4⭐️

Cuba- The Black Cathedral by Marcial Gala trans by Anna Kushner- 4⭐️

Dominica- The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid- 3⭐️

Bangladesh- Djinn City by Saad Z Hossain- 4⭐️

Mexico- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia- 4⭐️

Jamaica- Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn- 4⭐️

Vietnam- Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai- 4.5⭐️

Australia- Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko- 4⭐️

Israel- Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa- 4.5⭐️

Palestine- Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa- 5⭐️

Costa Rica- Where There Was Fire by John Manuel Arias- 4.5⭐️

Uruguay- Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis- 5⭐️

Dominican Republic- Tentacle by Rita Indiana trans by Achy Obejas- 2.5⭐️

Republic of the Congo- Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou trans by Helen Stevenson- 2⭐️

Czech Republic- The Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař- 2.5⭐️

Honduras- Turtles of the Midnight Moon by María José Fitzgerald- 4.5⭐️

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alka joshi and khaled hosseini have changed my brain chemistry

[jc-lambert]

¿San Francisco?

wow.

So I am looking at an interview, at my convenience in San Francisco? I wonder what the Lee family would have to say about that, as well as Alka Joshi. They must hate me by now. I mean, they did drop David's old BMW off on my doorstep covered in sawdust and put their nose in my tea. They probably hate me. They probably wanted to fake an auto theft as a form of insurance fraud. However, Pat's brother was in Portland volunteering at Blanchet House. Which: Pat and he are the convicted car thieves, not me. Andrea Jones losing word credit on that note, will probably be killed as a mafia hit through the Catholic Church.

:)

I lost my California driver's license to my Colorado in 2012 or so. My California and Colorado identity record both lapsed in 2020: when I turned 40. I did report myself as kidnapped to both states, which kept my fingerprint on record in both states. This is the kind of crap that probably got Marq killed. He broke into the office and stole all my mail at the Sharehouse, thinking I had lines of credit of over 500 million attached to my PayPal. That number: was a deficit drafted under "forced prostitution" if and when it was insisted I keep the company of other persons from Kansas.

That number reflected in London, and caused several policing agencies in the USA to bankrupt while killing several persons in London and anyone connected to the card itself or criminal cases themselves. Which, would include the new staff at the Sharehouse.

wonderful.

I think I'm going to have to ask Alka for money to go buy a cellphone and State ID. I am sure she would want to keep her friends close, and enemies closer: which would mean she would want me located in San Fran. Perhaps not with an account at the Bank of the Orient, but most certainly somewhere near some tacky space. You know like Halstead. That's called "Castro" in San Fran right? After Fidel?

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Thousand Oaks Library ~ One City One Book 2024 ~ The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi

The library hosted a henna workshop today, lead by a delightful Henna artist Afshan Kahn, owner of Henna Me Beautiful, and her lovely daughter. It was great fun to learn about henna and then create a design on my arms and fingers inspired by provided design templates.

I was inspired to create a mandala mani using CjS LC-18 Collab with Manisha M. And my Emily de Molly stamping polishes in Metallic Teal, Rose Gold and Pink Orange. My base polish is Ethereal Coffee Cloud.

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AUTHOR FEATURE:

﹒Alka Joshi﹒

Three Books Written By this Author:

The Henna Artist

The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

The Perfumist of Paris 

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Happy reading!