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The Midnight Library   Matt Haig      "It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we'd worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga. It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do the people we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out. But it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's wors...

The Palace Of Illusions CHITRA  BANERJEE  DIVAKARUNI "Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said.'There's so little in life that's worth it." -Draupadi & Krishna     Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "The Palace Of Illusions" is based on the "Mahabharata". The verse is very familiar to us since a long time , But this book changes our whole point of view. We have always read historical stories which were written by men based on their point of view, but in this book we see the story through the eyes of a woman who is considered the root of the war which consumed several Indian dynasties and erased the Kauravas : Draupadi. So basically, the book is Draupadi's POV of the Mahabharata and its background. From her secret attraction to a mysterious man , who is her husbands' most dangerous enemy to being insulted by him , from being Krishna's friend to becoming his devotee ; we follow Dra...