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Sorayya’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sorayya’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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The best thing about being a writer is spending the day dreaming other worlds into reality--even if the joy comes with hard lessons about patience.
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Read as much and as widely as you can. And, write.
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City of Spies
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Noor
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We Take Our Cities with Us: A Memoir
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Five Queen's Road
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[ Noor (North American) [ NOOR (NORTH AMERICAN) ] By Khan, Sorayya ( Author )Jan-01-2006 Paperback
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International Book Launch (Virtual)
Please join us for the international book launch (virtual!) of We Take Our Cities with Us: A Memoir on April 6, 7:30pm EST. I'll be introduced by novelist (and teacher extraordinaire) Douglas Unger, and will be in conversation with Raza Rumi (with whom I share more than one city).
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"Consider the possibility that the elemental unit of human consciousness is suffering. Coming to consciousness of suffering requires we think of the suffering of others, and to compare their suffering with ours. We might make a xenophobic comparison s"
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| What a powerful, devastating read about the immediate impossible present and the crushing past that has Jack (Jamal) forever in its grip. What does it mean to be human amidst generations of war? How is it possible to begin again -- or is it? Every Ex ...more | |
"For some people, it’s murder. Put murder in the book, and they are on board. For me, it’s a vicarage. I love a vicar, an awkward luncheon, a Miss Somebody with a sewing basket, and above all a village fete. But there is simply not enough tension in t"
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| This is an astonishing book about recovered memory, love, and the horrors of World War 1. At more than 500 pages, it takes its time with long, long sentences, many of which begin with "And," and if those sentences weren't so beautiful and evocative, ...more | |
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| This is a book that unspools quietly and slowly, sucking you in with unforgettable characters, of which the cemetery is only one. Despite the sadness, there's a beauty to it and a confirmation of love and life that moved me. ...more | |
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| Everything Colm Tóibín writes feels like a masterpiece and this is no exception. The novel is a heartbreaking account of a young man's dying days (and nights). With exactitude in dialogue and place (oh my goodness, I love the strand, Enniscorthy, and ...more | |
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"I was impatient with the book for a long time, as if someone were leading me blindfolded to a place very far away. I shouldn't have been impatient. What I felt on the last page was worth every step. This is a beautiful, painful, almost unbearably hon"
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"The first half is perfection. The seamless movement between characters and points of view made me feel I was floating, skating, swimming. It’s a quiet sort of plot and yet there is such sharp unease in each household, such latent volatility. I couldn"
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“It wasn't only our country they occupied," Irene explained to Amir Shah. "They occupied our minds.”
― Five Queen's Road
― Five Queen's Road
“Noor was Sajida's secret. She knew the exact moment her child was conceived. Purple passed slowly, the lowest of clouds, over her eyes. Bathed in such magnificent color, Sajida lay perfectly still. Much later, she would try to relive the exact moment, as if she needed to understand how the fact of her child could have entered her body and mind at the same time. But Sajida would not summon the gentle shade ever again.”
― Noor
― Noor
“As much as Sajida once loved him, she thought it unjust that her daughter, forsaken by her father, should have any physical likeness to him at all.”
― Noor
― Noor
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“They make a desolation and call it peace.”
― C. Cornelii Taciti Germania, Agricola, Et De Oratoribus Dialogus (Classic Reprint)
― C. Cornelii Taciti Germania, Agricola, Et De Oratoribus Dialogus (Classic Reprint)
“They had left their cities, but they carried their cities with them, as a trust, on their shoulders. That's how it usually is. Even when cities are left behind, they don't stay behind. They seize on you even more. When the earth slips out from under your feet, that's when it really surrounds you . . . ”
― Basti
― Basti
“A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.”
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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