#desi bookblr

[eclecticwordblender]

the second sex by simone de beauvoir and invisible women by caroline criado perez are my guns, germs and steel and sapiens respectively.

[usuallyannoyingwhispers]

Has anyone read Written in the Stars by Divya Anand? The male protagonist Abhimanyu Singh is literally hotter than any Kdrama lead

[smart-macademia]

desi academia has my heart ☕🖤

[rainyyy-dayysss]

I like canceled plans. And empty book stores. I like rainy days and thunderstorms. And quite coffee shops. I like messy beds and overworn pajamas. Most of all, I like small joys that a simple life brings.

[papenathys]

THERE USED TO BE A LAKE HERE ONCE

A poetry collection about trans bodies, sapphic love, the desi queer community, and growing up Bengali in early 2000s Kolkata.

This is an indie debut poetry book by a non-binary Bengali author. Buying an author copy helps support me directly, as opposed to buying from a website.

GP*y: sritamasen1905@oksbi

P*yp*l: sritamasen1905@gmail.com

INR = Rs 300, USD = $ 4 (INR 300 converts to only about 3 USD, however, P*ypal skims off quite a bit, so if you want to support me, would appreciate if you paid around 4-5 USD)

HOW TO ORDER:

🦚 Fill out the Google form. There you can provide your personal details- address, pincode, country, name (PLEASE add the same name as a note in your Gp*y/P*ypal payment following slide 3; this will help me keep track.) as well as choose an edition of your preference and let me know what inscription/note you'd like me to add, if any.

🦚 After the base payment of Rs 300 is made via P*ypal or GP*y, I will confirm your purchase via Instagram DMs. Please ensure that your DMs are enabled, and if not, please mandatorily add your email ID.

🦚 Once I have finalized your order, I shall calculate shipping charges and let you know the additional prices to pay. For Indian folk, this will take 7-10 days. For those living abroad, please be patient, it might take slightly longer to calculate.

🦚 When you clear the shipping charges, your parcel shall be mailed soon after.

International purchasers, please try not to cancel orders after booking, I swear I'll have a meltdown if I have to figure out the P*yPàl and overseas refund transactions. Please, please be patient and cooperate; I'm a debut author and am still figuring out the nitty-gritties of overseas shipping. Also please note that I cannot 100% guarantee you a colour edition of your choice; although call me biased but they are all so beautiful. My payment details are on slide 3, and if you cannot purchase my book atm, I would appreciate a tip on my ko-fi!

Thank you for supporting a Bengali trans queer author; I hope I can write more for you soon.

For this sale, first priority will given to readers who identify as Desi, Bengali, LGBTQ of color and/or trans queer.

[aahanna]

Relationship like this>>>

[ughsahira]

Sex is okay BUT coming home and cooking together , eating on the kitchen counter while the cookies are baking as the house gets filled up with our giggles and yaps and we can't keep our hands to ourselves. Going to bed, talking about random things,about our day and cuddling each to sleep while the air gets mixed with our scent and our skin melts with each other's?!?!?!

[ariasmontage]

September 15,2024

went to an old bookstore.

[thatstolenpayal]

i'd rather die single than glancing at my boyfriend across the table in disappointment while reading a romance novel

[liztical]

The best duo >"<

[amarmonerkotha]

To my parents saying "mental health didnot exist before phones" doesn't know about Kafka yet

[smart-macademia]

I would peel a pomegranate for you ♥️

[rainyyy-dayysss]

It’s painful when someone says, ‘I love you,’ but deep down, you know they don’t love the real you—they’re in love with the version of you they’ve created in their mind

[papenathys]

There Used to Be a Lake Here Once (April, 2024)

I wrote this poetry collection when I was in college and it ended up getting acquired by the Writers Workshop, Kolkata- an Indian independent press that has published, among others, the works of Ruskin Bond, Vikram Seth, Kamala Das, Nissim Ezekiel and AK Ramanujan.

I grew up in Kolkata in the mid 2010s, whilst juggling multiple identities- Bengali girl child, queer teen brought up under a Catholic school system, later, a transgender enby poet and writer reconciling my personal and political worlds through academia and writing. This chapbook, divided into two sections, contains twenty-six poems on Bengali trans queer coming-of-age. I wrote it for the same reason I write all my stories: in the hopes that younger queer and trans desi youths can take some heart, and know they aren't as alone as I felt when I was a kid– even if the versions of India we have lived through are quite different, for better and for worse.

Anyway, cheesy stuff over. My author copies just arrived today and well, aren't they simply beautiful? Apparently, there will be more different colour editions. Which one do you like best?

[stfulara]

being a book girlie is so expensive in this day and age, can't a girl just have fun?

[fairieicedtea]

she just wants to read books and sleep, but she has to study. i am she, she is me