Image of The Palace of Illusions book from the Indian Epics reading page
Tentatively, for my reading plan, I'd like to choose several shorter books that allow me to get the most variety out of reading. That said, I also just stumbled upon some books that look really interesting. Maybe I'll have to keep this page bookmarked for future even when I'm not in the class anymore!
I'd like to start with the Ideal Indian Women book, by Sunity Devee. There are at least two weeks in there, and they focus on a couple different women, so I think it would be a good pick in terms of my storybook.
I think The Missing Queen by Samhita Arni would be a good choice too! I really enjoyed reading the Ramayana, and would like to delve deeper into more retellings of it. This would be another two weeks, and while I've already written about Sita in my storybook, I think the material from the previous reading would be enough to keep me going while I read this.
Lastly, The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Divakaruni seems really interesting and like something I would enjoy reading. This is four weeks worth of material, but I think I could keep reading on it after the class ended!
Between those three, I think that will serve me well for the rest of the semester.
Claire, just to say that this sounds like such a nice line-up. I loved Samhita Arni's other books, and Missing Queen just blew me away this weekend. I will be so curious what you think of it! And I am long-time fan of Palace of Illusions; that was the book, in fact, that really prompted me to reorganize this class to include a big wide range of reading. I had to make room for that book! :-)
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