It has kept me company while we ate out, had espresso and orzo (barley).

I started reading the novel while we were in Tavarnuzze Toscana, Italy, where my family and I stayed for a few days before returning back to Munich. It was never really mentioned throughout the novel what the specific setting of the book is – just little snippets here and there of discontent with the current administration, the hypervigilance when it comes to extremists who wish to take over the country, revolutionary acts led mostly by the youth, a few of them educated in the United States such as the main protagonist in the story, Rasa, who works as an interpreter for foreign journalists. Naturally, I bought it from Book Depository before we left Singapore, primarily because it still fits quite nicely into our current reading theme (plus it is a Europa Editions novel which we love), with the hopes that I will be able to review it.īasically, this book is an exploration of something which is considered taboo in the Muslim community: what it’s like to be gay, especially in the Middle East. I learned about this book through Litsy – an app that I have been going crazy about – when I shared that we are doing a Middle Eastern reading theme, and it came highly recommended. While on occasion, we would feature a few books in keeping with this, there would be a few posts where we will just write about our thoughts on read-alouds, libraries, reading journals, upcoming literary conferences, books that we are excited about, and just book love miscellany in general. We thought that it would be good practice to reflect on our reading lives and our thoughts about reading in general. Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC)Įvery Saturday we hope to share with you our thoughts on reading and books.Literary Voyage Around The World Reading Challenge 2018.#WomenReadWomen2019 (A Year Of Women Reading Women) Reading Progress.#ReadIntl2020 (Year Of International Literature) Reading Progress.#DecolonizeBookshelves2022 Reading Progress.#DecolonizeReading2023 Reading Progress.

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