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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
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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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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…
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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…
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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⭐️
Colombia- 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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“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
#imlivingmylife#the book i’m reading#i love reading#book quotes#fiction books#alka joshi#bedtime reading#reading in bed#self worth#making changes#change for the better#self growth#never stop growing
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alka joshi and khaled hosseini have changed my brain chemistry
#just finished reading the henna artist by flashlight#started my last khaled hosseini book (finished the other two already) and the mountains echoed#i can feel my heart almost bursting
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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!
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NoveList Combo: Lush & Descriptive Title Recommendations
Did you know NoveList is a database you can access with your library card to find reading recommendations? Find your next favorite read with this fantastic readers tool! Check it out on our website here.
The Last Russian Doll by Kristen Loesch
In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land...
...a young girl lived happily in Moscow with her family: a sister, a father, and an eccentric mother who liked to tell fairy tales and collect porcelain dolls.
One summer night, everything changed, and all that remained of that family were the girl and her mother.
Now, a decade later and studying at Oxford University, Rosie has an English name, a loving fiancé, and a promising future, but all she wants is to understand--and bury--the past. After her mother dies, Rosie returns to Russia, armed with little more than her mother’s strange folklore--and a single key.
What she uncovers is a devastating family history that spans the 1917 Revolution, the siege of Leningrad, Stalin’s purges, and beyond.
At the heart of this saga stands a young noblewoman, Tonya, as pretty as a porcelain doll, whose actions—and love for an idealistic man—will set off a sweeping story that reverberates across the century....
Nocturne by Alyssa Wees
Growing up in Chicago’s Little Sicily in the years following the Great War, Grace Dragotta has always wanted to be a ballerina, ever since she first peered through the windows of the Near North Ballet Company. So when Grace is orphaned, she chooses the ballet as her home, imagining herself forever ensconced in a transcendent world of light and beauty so different from her poor, immigrant upbringing.
Years later, with the Great Depression in full swing, Grace has become the company's new prima ballerina—though achieving her long-held dream is not the triumph she once envisioned. Time and familiarity have tarnished that shining vision, and her new position means the loss of her best friend in the world. Then she attracts the attention of the enigmatic Master La Rosa as her personal patron, and realizes the world is not as small or constricted as she had come to fear.
Who is her mysterious patron, and what does he want from her? As Grace begins to unlock the Master's secrets, she discovers that there is beauty in darkness as well as light, finds that true friendship cannot be broken by time or distance, and realizes there may be another way entirely to achieve the transcendence she has always sought.
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi
Once upon a time, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada. He was a scholar of myths. She was heiress to a fortune. They exchanged gifts and stories and believed they would live happily ever after—and in exchange for her love, Indigo extracted a promise: that her bridegroom would never pry into her past.
But when Indigo learns that her estranged aunt is dying and the couple is forced to return to her childhood home, the House of Dreams, the bridegroom will soon find himself unable to resist. For within the crumbling manor’s extravagant rooms and musty halls, there lurks the shadow of another girl: Azure, Indigo’s dearest childhood friend who suddenly disappeared. As the house slowly reveals his wife’s secrets, the bridegroom will be forced to choose between reality and fantasy, even if doing so threatens to destroy their marriage . . . or their lives.
The Perfumist of Paris by Alka Joshi
Paris, 1974. Radha is now thirty-two and living in Paris with her husband, Pierre, and their two daughters. She still grieves for the baby boy she gave up years ago, when she was only a child herself, but she loves being a mother to her daughters, and she’s finally found her passion—the treasure trove of scents.
When her friend’s grandfather offered her a job at his parfumerie, she quickly discovered she had a talent—she could find the perfect fragrance for any customer who walked in the door. Now, ten years later, she’s working for a master perfumer, helping to design completely new fragrances for clients and building her career one scent at a time. She only wishes Pierre could understand her need to work. She feels his frustration, but she can’t give up this thing that drives her.
Tasked with her first major project, Radha travels to India, where she enlists the help of her sister, Lakshmi, and the courtesans of Agra—women who use the power of fragrance to seduce, tease and entice. She’s on the cusp of a breakthrough when she finds out the son she never told her husband about is heading to Paris to find her—upending her carefully managed world and threatening to destroy a vulnerable marriage.
This is the third volume in “The Jaipur Trilogy.”
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Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi Film Review
Image of Lead filmstars in the film Ramprasad ki Tehrvi Plot: This film is about the family of Ram Prasad, who has died, and all of his six children, four sons and two daughters, who come to their ancestral house on the thirteenth day of their father's death. Instead of sharing their grief, they all become entangled in their own problems and begin fighting among themselves. They had never come to see their parents before, but now they have come and are fighting among themselves on their father's rituals. Their mother is silently watching all of this, saying nothing. Now that the mother is alone, whose son will take her with him? Will she live alone in such a large house? To find out, watch the movie. Tone and Theme: The tone of this film is family drama, and the theme is family and relationships. The goal of making this film is to show the reality of today's families, which is that children don't care about their parents. It draws attention to the issue and makes an impression. It forces us to face the realities of our society. Acting and Characters: Supriya Pathak Kapoor has done an excellent job as Amma. She did a splendid job playing her role. Her acting abilities are exceptional. She has effectively conveyed the pain of losing a husband on her face. Naseeruddin Shah plays a guest role. He performed admirably in his limited screen time. Konkona Sen Sharma's performance as Seema can also be described as good. Her acting conveyed a completely different attitude, sadness, pain, and loneliness on screen. The supporting cast includes Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Vikrant Massey, Manoj Pahwa, Ninad Kamat, Vinay Pathak, Deepika Amin, Divya Jagdale, Sadiya Siddiqui, Anubha Fatehpura, Sarika Singh, Brijendra Kala, Shrikant Verma, Rajendra Gupta, Pushpa Joshi, Vineet Kumar, Alka Kaushal, and Yamini Dass. All of whom play their. It directed by Seema Pahwa, a well-known film actress. This is her first Hindi movie, and her directorial debut. She attempted to tell the story in a good way. It moves at a slow pace, but it never deviates from the plot. She has effectively depicted the story's conflict and confrontation. Seema Pahwa has done an excellent job directing her first movie. All the characters very well portrayed on screen. Everyone appears to be acting like real-life characters. Story-Screenplay: Seema Pahwa's story is also contemporary; relationships are no longer important in society, and the screenplay is magnificent. Dialogues: Seema Pahwa has written dialogues of all the characters that seem believable and fit perfectly according to the story of the film. Everyone's dialogues match the tone and theme of the film, The dialogue in the film's narration accurately describes all the characters' expressions. Music and Background Score: Sagar Desai's music and background score had little impact; all the songs were played in the background, and the background score complemented the movie's mood and story. Lyricist: All the songs written by Neeraj Pandey connect themselves to the story. Cinematography: Sudip Sengupta shot the entire movie in a single house. So there wasn't much scope in the film, but all the shots that were shot inside the house were brilliantly shot. Resul Pookutty and Amrit Pritam provide excellent sound design. Production Design: Parijat Poddar's production design was based on the story. Dipika Kalra's editing could have been tighter. The film is slow-paced, and the pace between scenes is weak. Costume Design: Darshan Jalan and Manish Tiwari's costume designs complement the film's theme and tone. Opinion: People who enjoy watching art films can see this film once. Climax: The film's climax was very well executed. Message: In today's families, it is very important to cherish relationships and affection for one another. Nominations for the 67th Filmfare Awards include Best Film, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Debut Director. Nominations were received for Best Film Critics, Best Story, and Best Supporting Actress. The film received one Best Debut Director award, which went to Seema Pahwa. CBFC-U Movietime: 1h.53m Genre: Family Drama Backdrop: Lucknow Release: 2021 Cast includes Supriya Pathak Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Vikrant Massey, and Manoj Pahwa. Ninad Kamat, Vinay Pathak, Deepika Amin, Divya Jagdale, Sadiya Siddique, Anubha Fatehpura, Sarika Singh, Brijendra Kala, Shrikant Verma, Rajendra Gupta, Pushpa Joshi, Vineet Kumar, Alka Kaushal, Yamini Dass, Naseeruddin Shah (guest appearance) Producer: Manish Mundra, Jio Studios, Writer, and Director: Seema Pahwa; Sound Design: Resul Pookutty, Amrit Pritam. Darshan Jalan and Manish Tiwari created the costumes, Sagar Desai composed the music and background score, and Parijat Poddar handled the production design. Dipika Kalra is the editor; Sudip Sengupta is the cinematographer; Neeraj Pandey is the lyricist; Krishna Swain is the art director; and Casting Bay handles the casting. Read the full article
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