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Freya Abbas
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in Lucknow , India
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Very specific romance trope I am obsessed with
I don't like YA books that much, but I am currently reading Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley. So far, it's okay. I'll post a Goodreads review when I'm done. I will say that I am happy that it's a debut by an Anishinaabe author with a protagonist who is proud of her Anishinaabe heritage though, and I hope this author will keep writing more.
Anyway, what's keeping the pages turning for me i
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"Growing up as a Coptic Egyptian in the West, I always found it bizarre that in contrast to the way that I experienced racism and Orientalism, some of our most prominent North African figures such as Augustine, Hannibal, and Athanasius were portrayed"
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Sisters in the Wind (Firekeeper's Daughter, #3)
by Angeline Boulley (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Young Adult Fiction |
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| I don’t like YA books that much, but this was pretty good. It certainly had suspense. And I liked the complicated feelings between Jamie and Daunis. Daunis is pretty well written, like for example the way she talks about her mixed race heritage and h ...more | |
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| I enjoyed these poems, especially ‘rival’ and ‘you’re.’ There were beautiful lines throughout the whole thing. However, I didn’t really like the confessional style and the fact that some of these poems were about suicide. To be fair, ‘daddy’ and ‘lad ...more | |
"I'm not even going to pretend that I understand half of the poems in here.
But I would be lying if I said I hated Ariel. Because even if many of the poems were too abstract for me, or felt too personal to the point where I had no clue what she was talk" Read more of this review » |
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"“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”" |
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“What shall I take with me?
Will I let nothing behind me over the earth?
How shall my heart act?
Is it that we come in vain to live,
to sprout over the earth?
Let us leave at least flowers,
let us leave at least songs.”
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Will I let nothing behind me over the earth?
How shall my heart act?
Is it that we come in vain to live,
to sprout over the earth?
Let us leave at least flowers,
let us leave at least songs.”
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“If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.”
― The Songlines
― The Songlines
“Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.”
― The Tempest
― The Tempest
“Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”
― Freedom
― Freedom
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