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Nadine’s 2024 Year in Books
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Nadine Bjursten
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Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
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Lessons of Life From a Desert Rose
Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
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It takes three to four weeks for the thirty-two pink petals of the damask rose to open, and the closer it gets, the more its scent fills the air. The rose, however, has one day of splendor before the petals start to lighten and then loosen, to then be carried off by the desert wind. Its fragrance reaches its peak that same morning when Read more of this blog post »
Nadine Bjursten
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It takes three to four weeks for the thirty-two pink petals of the damask rose to open, and the closer it gets, the more its scent fills the air. The rose, however, has one day of splendor before the petals start to lighten and then loosen, to then be carried off by the desert wind. Its fragrance reaches its peak that same morning when Read more of this blog post »
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“In case you haven't noticed, people get hard-hearted against the people they hurt. Because they can't stand it. Literally. To think we did that to someone. I did that. So we think of all the reasons why it's okay we did whatever we did.”
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| This was so powerful and beautifully written. Set in a small village in Ireland in 1985 as Christmas approaches, hardworking coal merchant and father Bill Furlong is on one of his delivery rounds when he discovers a barefoot teenage mother locked in ...more | |
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“If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence.” If you want to enjoy Greek lessons by Han Kang, you have to be open to it not being plot-driven or even character-driven. It is more a poetic exploration of grief a ...more |
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While it took some pages to get used to the lack of paragraphs, quotes and even political context in Paul Lynch’s The Prophet Song, I found it impossible to put down. An unsparing stream of consciousness pulls you into the collapsing world of Eilish, ...more |
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"Incredible and riveting
What an incredible read. Half a Cup of Sand and Sky was captivating from the off, there are some slower moments but I really struggled putting this down. Set in Iran amongst political revolution and nuclear war. It's an incredibl" Read more of this review » |
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"Immersive and Thought-Provoking
I found Half a Cup of Sand and Sky by Nadine Bjursten very immersive and informative. The plot is well-thought-out and befits the theme of the story. I learnt a lot about Iranian culture, food, and how life is like gro" Read more of this review » |
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"“Half a Cup of Sand and Sky” by Nadine Bjursten is a breathtakingly beautiful novel that transports the readers to the natural beauty of Iran with the rose farms, cuisine, and poetry as its backdrop against which it tells a captivating tale that seam"
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“Smell unlocks your past. It brings you back to another time you didn’t know you had in you to remember.”
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“Unless we love ourselves, our hearts are as good as a black hole all the love in the world can’t fill.”
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“Beauty, it seemed to Amineh, did not have to be extraordinary to be cherished. Maybe that was its secret, that it lived in the most common expressions of man and nature. The artisan had discovered it in a block of wood, which he had carved into a scene of a young woman sitting at a window. The locals had created it through the colorful geraniums they placed on small protrusions covering every square meter of their adobe walls. Even the animals were not immune. Who could doubt the starlings’ ecstatic flight around the minarets of the mosque was inspired by the symmetry of that aging structure.”
― Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
― Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
“Everyone and everything in this life will cause us pain at some point, but what is being hurt, that's what we have to ask ourselves. When we have discarded those things that separate us from each other, there is no hurt.”
― Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
― Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
“When one starts a new chapter, the page shouldn’t be messy with commentary but white and crisp, ready for one’s best self.”
― Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
― Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
“She was being released from the sorrows of the soil that had bred her.”
― Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
― Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
“When one starts a new chapter, the page shouldn’t be messy with commentary but white and crisp, ready for one’s best self.”
― Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
― Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
“Beauty, it seemed to Amineh, did not have to be extraordinary to be cherished. Maybe that was its secret, that it lived in the most common expressions of man and nature. The artisan had discovered it in a block of wood, which he had carved into a scene of a young woman sitting at a window. The locals had created it through the colorful geraniums they placed on small protrusions covering every square meter of their adobe walls. Even the animals were not immune. Who could doubt the starlings’ ecstatic flight around the minarets of the mosque was inspired by the symmetry of that aging structure.”
― Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
― Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
“Unless we love ourselves, our hearts are as good as a black hole all the love in the world can’t fill.”
― Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
― Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
“Smell unlocks your past. It brings you back to another time you didn’t know you had in you to remember.”
― Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
― Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
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