155 ratings (3.59 avg)
30 reviews

Lamiya

Add friend

https://www.goodreads.com/lj19

Lamiya’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (177)

currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (198)

did-not-finish‎ (15)

Stats | More…

Lamiya’s Notes & Highlights

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

2 highlights

Jimmy had been told from a young age that fear and failing and trying and wanting and openness and kindness and sincerity made him weak. And because he had believed it, he’d learned to suppress all of those things. And when he saw those ...more

Mornings in Jenin

by Susan Abulhawa

2 highlights
Vampires of El Norte

by Isabel Cañas

1 highlight

See Lamiya’s 5 books with notes and highlights…

Lamiya’s Quotes

“that is what migrations and relocations do to us: when you leave your home for unknown shores, you don’t simply carry on as before; a part of you dies inside so that another part can start all over again.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

84 likes

“You don't share a language, you think, and then you realise, grief is a language. We understand each other, people with troubled pasts.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

tags: grief

71 likes

“People assume it’s a matter of personality, the difference between optimists and pessimists. But I believe it all comes down to an inability to forget. The greater your powers of retention, the slimmer your chances at optimism.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

50 likes

“If you weep for all the sorrows in this world, in the end you will have no eyes.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

32 likes

“To immigrants and exiles everywhere,
the uprooted, the re-rooted, the rootless,
And to the trees we left behind,
rooted in our memories ...”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

tags: immigrants

34 likes

More of Lamiya’s quotes…

recent posts
Lamiya’s Groups

That Sunday Girl Book Club — 11 members — last activity Oct 01, 2024 08:27PM
Picture this: a cozy Sunday, surrounded by like-minded girls who prefer the quiet hum of a good story over the noise of the outside world. We meet onc ...more

Around the World in 80 Books — 31344 members — last activity Jun 04, 2026 05:12AM
Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or explorin ...more

The 52 Book Club: 2026 Challenge — 27788 members — last activity 1 hour, 9 min ago
This group is for those participating in The 52 Book Club's annual challenges! With 52 unique prompts released each year, the goal is to diversify our ...more

Read With Raegan — 617 members — last activity May 15, 2026 11:06AM
Raegan Revord's book club. For story seekers. Welcome to Read With Raegan, a space where we celebrate books, good conversation, and the joy of gettin ...more