A reading from the perspective of the Women of a Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini

Hello everyone, Long time no see eh? Yes I've been away from the blogosphere for a while now due to various reasons but I hope to get back into blogging soooon! (cue the many times I had promised this before already🙄🙄) I have recently had the opportunity to write for Amaliah, a fast growing online...

Review: God Smites and Other Muslim Girl Problems by Ishara Deen

  Title: God Smites and Other Muslim Girl Problems Author: Ishara Deen Publisher: Deeya Publishing Inc. Publication Date:  15 January, 2017 ISBN: 9780995833609 Setting: Canada Synopsis:  LIKE NANCY DREW, BUT NOT... Craving a taste of teenage life, Asiya Haque defies her parents to go for a walk (really, it was just a walk!) in the woods with Michael, her...

Review: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

  Title: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Published: October 29th 2002 by Anchor Original Title: Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise (first published 2000) ISBN: 0385722206 Setting: China     Synopsis In this enchanting tale about the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening, two hapless city boys are exiled to a remote mountain village for...

Review: Stained by Abda Khan

  I closed my eyes. I wanted to see nothing, I  wanted to feel nothing. I just wanted darkness, blackness, but my eyes kept dragging me back to it all. And still, all I could hear was the tick tock, tick tock, tick tock. I put my hands over my ears, desperately trying to banish the incessant noise...

Review: Saree by Su Dharmapala

The key phrase to this book is ‘fatefully yet surprisingly interwoven lives’. The extracting of silk and human elements and artfully weaving them into intricate patterns. The title in fact, is gleefully fitting. When I saw it on the book shelf at my local book store, I just knew and my expectations rose immediately, but...

Review: Street Girl by Rozana McGrattan

    “I hear the vibrations of the universe and I call it love. I want to go to it; need to go to it, need to dissolve in it. It calls me home. …… And real love is the shedding of old feelings, emotions, longings, wants. And the knowledge that there will be no...

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

  Synopsis In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter...

Reading Lolita in Tehran : Azar Nafisi

  Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled...

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie: Storytelling at possibly, it’s finest.

    This book needs no introduction. Most of you will remember seeing this title on all "Must read" book lists, and if you are in touch with the book awards sphere you will know that Midnight's Children has been awarded the Booker of Bookers Prize in 1993 and 2008. It is also known to...

Madol Doova – Martin Wickramasinghe | Review

  Synopsis Madol Doova translated as Mangrove Island, written and set in rural Sri Lanka, is a sequence of escapades of a young boy, Upali, accompanied with his friend Jinna.   Upali’s mother passes away, and his mischievous antics prove unbearable to his father and step mother. He is sent away to board at his...

The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

  ~Synopsis~ Location: Massachusetts (Republic of Gilead), United States of America   Based in the Republic of Gilead, this is the story of Offred (Of Fred) and other female handmaids stripped of their previous identities, used for the purpose of breeding for those elite families who cannot conceive. We witness a monthly ritual of impregnation,...

The Pearl That Broke Its Shell – Nadia Hashimi

  https://rhapsodyinbooks.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/the-pearl-the-broke-its-shell.jpg   ~Synopsis~   Location : Kabul, Afghanistan Time: Early 20th century and Early 21st Century (2007)   The novel is the story of two women divided by time, a century to be exact. Shebika is Rahima's great great grand mother, and they share a similar naseeb, a destiny, of not conforming to society....

“Beautiful Lara Jean”

If you have read the book, you'll know who I am talking about, if you haven't: I am ofcourse talking about Jenny Han's To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and its sequel, P.S: I Still Love You. Synopsis of the books: The story is of 16 year old Lara Jean who has written letters...