Yesterday we went for a walk (fri-nally as @whatshotblog would say) and tried making a story with the shapes of ☁️ clouds. It started with 'once upon a time a dog was walking' and ended with a dragon charging straight at us. Later we sat in the balcony and talked till midnight with mugs of tea in hand. #qotd : Do you try to see shapes in clouds? - - Are you enjoying #tbsgodofsmallthingsreadalong ? I have only three chapters to go and I so do not want it to end. Some facts about Roy and the book: - Arundhati Roy's full name is Suzanna Arundhati Roy. She spent her childhood at Ayemanam. 🦎 - She was born in Shilling to Ranjib Roy, a Bengali Hindu from Calcutta and Mary Roy, a Syrian Christian from Kerala. 🦎 - When Arundhati was two, her mom returned with both her children to Kerala after a failed marriage. She wasn't welcomed at home and stayed at a cottage in Ooty. 🦎 - Arundhati told her mom that the book would hurt her and she didn't read it for a long time. Mary Roy admits there is a lot of the family in the book but a lot of fictional inclusions as well. 🦎 - Mary Roy's parents are not fictionalised in the book, but many events about them that come later are. So Pappachi used to beat grandmom until the brother intervened, Grandmom preferred her brother over Mary Roy. Her brother, George Issac, is a Rhodes scholar and owns a pickle factory. 🦎 - Unlike Ammu who had a sad end, Mary Roy is an educator and owns a prominent school in Kottayam. She won the lawsuit against the inheritance laws in Keralite Syrian Christian community whereby girls were not allowed to inherit parent's property. 🦎 - Like Rahel, Arundhati Roy studied in a boarding school, studied architecture and had failed relationships 🦎 - Arundhati started writing The God of Small Things in 1992. It was published in 1997. . . . PS: How gorgeous is the cover of Strange Heart Beating? My next read. Have a great weekend🦋🐥. . . . #books #coffee #yellow #onthebed #arundhatiroy #godofsmallthings #booknerdlife #bookworm #booklover
