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I have been dreading to finish this… but today is the day. Let’s gooo

“Words, words. How obsessed, how concerned people are with them. Eugene hears. Eugene understands. He understands it all…but, like Bran (the dog), he has no need of or interest in speech.”

Eugene, I like your character. People are indeed obsessed with words, sometimes it would do us well to be silent for once.

Need to withhold myself from binge reading this one 🫪

OK nevermind. I am not angry anymore hehe 😇

I am angry. No I am actually pissed at Jihad. Like what the hell. Almost done with the story tho! This one feels like a five star book.

good soup. 🍜

I gave up.

I keep starting new books and not finishing them ahah but this one, this one is very engaging and beautifully written. “Eğer insan emanetini muhafaza ederse, kendisinde imanı bulur. Semayı ve Arşı kendisinde seyreder.”

Although I can’t relate to the plot, it does feel wholesome to read this :). Maybe I should read more romance fiction 🙃

I had high hopes for this, I was so excited to read something from a Palestinian writer but sorry. I did not like this. It was quite disturbing and triggering for me. I just don’t like snobby, bratty characters and endless random plots with no clear storyline.

I knew it. Damn it, I knew it.

I am have been sobbing for the past half hour… I should have picked this up so much earlier! This is definitely going on my all time favourite list 🥰

“Children aren’t colouring books. You don’t get to fill them in with your colours.”

every time I think the plot can’t get more sad, it does. why am I getting more upset with every proceeding chapter?!

I am so angry right now. NOOOOO - I did not expect this plottwist! AHHHHHHHH

If there would be 1 book on your shelf about Israel-Palestine: this would be THE essay!

Highlights basic facts, a well written and a concise and powerful short essay of the past 80 years.

I am going quite slow but it has been very eye opening so far! I have learned a lot.

I am reminded of this book every time I see an ‘Orientalist’ painting or movie scene. Or anything remotely associated with the Orientalist view on the Middle East/Asia. Makes you realise how much of your own history has been manipulated to fit Western European narrative.

Every sentence rolls of my tongue like butter, so poetic, so melodiously written. Toni Morrison knows how to write passionate characters. I am enjoying her writing so far. Planning to finish this book today, 110 pages to go!