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5 days ago | 
readersblock.substack.com | Juliana Pignataro
by Pallavi Sharma Dixit Read it if you’re into: Indian culture, television & film, feel good storiesSweet and sensitive Prem, the black sheep son of one of New Delhi’s most successful business magnates, has never really fit in with the rest of his high-powered family. While he’s content to watch and dream of Indian cinema day in and day out, his father is intent on having him join the family business and finally make something of himself.
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1 month ago | 
readersblock.substack.com | Juliana Pignataro
By Jesse Q. SutantoRead it if you’re into: Uplifting murder mysteries; A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman; dramediesThanks for reading ReadersBlock! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. An elderly Asian widow running a dusty old teashop in San Francisco’s Chinatown has but a single customer for whom she opens her store each and every day.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
readersblock.substack.com | Juliana Pignataro
My unlikely, life-changing, standout out of the year. Who would have thought? This Pulitzer Prize-winning doorstop, clocking in at over 1,000 pages, was part of my (slow) mission to read a biography of every president. I’d thought little about Harry Truman — man or president — before picking it up. Like all good biographies, it’s a study of a life but also a colorful history of a complex time. More than anything, I was blown away by Truman as a man (I cried at the end).
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
readersblock.substack.com | Tina Brown |Kate Brower |Juliana Pignataro
by Tina BrownLongtime royals chronicler and Vanity Fair Editor in Chief Tina Brown has produced the authoritative, definitive history of Britain’s modern royal family — or at least as close to it as we’re likely to get. Thanks for reading ReadersBlock! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
readersblock.substack.com | Juliana Pignataro
July Reads: Liz Moore's latest, Rudy Giuliani's downfallreadersblock.substack.com
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
readersblock.substack.com | Liz Moore |Andrew Kirtzman |Juliana Pignataro
by Liz MooreRead it if you’re into: Literary fiction, female-centric stories, narratives of class divideIn the early 1960s, a young boy vanishes from the summer camp built on his wealthy family’s vast Adirondack property. Flash forward to 1975, and the boy’s sister (who may or may not have been born solely as a replacement for her lost brother), goes missing from her bunk at the very same camp in the middle of the night.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
readersblock.substack.com | Susan Casey |Jon Ziomek |Andrea Lankford |Juliana Pignataro
by Susan CaseyRead it if you’re into: Marine biology, extreme excursions, environmental conservation Thanks for reading ReadersBlock! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Established marine writer Susan Casey’s first person account chronicles her many journeys accompanying scientists and explorers to the ocean’s depths, shedding light on the little known world that exists down in the darkness.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
readersblock.substack.com | Juliana Pignataro
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
readersblock.substack.com | Sarah Langan |Kate Brody |Riley Sager |Juliana Pignataro
by Sarah LanganRead it if you’re into: Near future dystopias, creepy suburban towns, satirical takedownsIt is the near future in a world riven by technology-gone-wrong and the effects of climate change, and the Farmer Bowens get an opportunity to live in Plymouth Valley. Plymouth Valley is a "company town," built by the makers of Omnium, a product that endlessly recycles plastic, thereby sort of saving the world (or keeping the apocalypse at bay).
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
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