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GatheringBooks
In the Presence of Absence | Mahmoud Darwish
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#LuckyInLove Day 28: This is a #LongDistanceLove of sorts for a poet in exile away from his home country. Paired with fresh guacamole straight from the avocado and mixed in front of you. Absolutely special.

Eggs Yummmmm😋😋 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Looks delicious 😋 1mo
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charl08
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A doctorate - that's really something.
Putting on an act of humility, I told him that the
matter entailed no more than spending three years delving into the life of an obscure English poet.
I was furious - I won't disguise the fact from you - when the man laughed unashamedly and said We have no need of poetry here.

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Sarahreadstoomuch
Wedding Song | Naguib Mahfouz
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Pickpick

This has been on my shelf forever… and while it took a few pages (I had to reread the first 5 pages) to get a handle on the writing style, and then it blew me away. I could almost feel this story settling over me like a blanket while reading. Set in Cairo, this tells a story in 4 different perspectives.

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LapReader
Mirror | Jeannie Baker
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Pickpick

Scores from the Little Free Library on Tuesday. Do yourself a favour and check out the tagged author‘s kid‘s books. She is incredibly talented.

Jeg I love her books. 3mo
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GatheringBooks
The Bamboo Stalk | Saud Alsanousi
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#HumbleHarvest Day 9: Bamboo stalks and #Hayride(s) seem to go together. Paired with delicious mexican burrito. Book was strongly recommended by my Kuwaiti doctoral student. 💕💕💕

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So pretty 😍 5mo
Megabooks Burrito! Yum! 5mo
DHill Yum! 5mo
Blueberry 😋 ¡bueno! 5mo
Eggs Nom nom 🤤 5mo
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cherryluvr
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📕I read this book for a class and had a completely different idea going into it. It was a fascinating read and left me quite uncomfortable (which is the point!). I just don't know if any of the portrayals of the Sudanese people could be damaging. Of course, it is strategic, but anyone has access to read this book and have opinions based on the portrayal. I still don't know how to feel about this book, but it was wonderfully written! ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

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GatheringBooks
The Bamboo Stalk | Saud Alsanousi
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#AutumnPlease! Day 26: I have a feeling wearing a #Mask could be a theme here with the main character struggling to find a sense of belonging while in-between cultures as a biracial individual - and not really fitting in with one (Kuwaiti) or the other (Filipino).

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So pretty 😍 5mo
tpixie Gorgeous and I bet yummy. The book sounds good. 5mo
Singout Looked for this in my online library and found the master fisher‘s guide to building a bamboo rod. Sigh. 5mo
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Currey
Miramar | Naguib Mahfouz
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#readaroundtheworld #egypt A story of multiple romances and a murder told through the eyes of 4 separate character‘s narrations. Mahfouz, the Nobel Prize winning author, manages to give us a lens into these characters lives while reflecting the romance and betrayals of the Egyptian Revolution. However, Zohra, the strong willed and beautiful young woman who is at the center of the plot does not get her own narration. Alexandria sounds wonderful

BookwormM I haven‘t started mine yet several library holds arrived at once 5mo
BarbaraBB I really enjoyed this one! 5mo
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Leftcoastzen
Gate of the Sun | Elias Khoury
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#autumnplease #OrangeStack so tempting to just run around and pull the penguins!😊🐧

Eggs Lovely 🍊🧡🤩 6mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Pretty 🧡🧡 6mo
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LibrarianRyan
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4.5 ⭐This is a story about an Egyptian American girl who is going to an American school in the third grade for the first time. She becomes a little embarrassed by both her lunch and her language being something the kids don‘t know. With the encouragement of the teacher, she uses her grandmother‘s quilt to help show everybody that language is unique, beautiful, amazing, and helps make everybody friendlier.

LibrarianRyan The class, then learns to make all their names in Arabic and the teacher makes a paper quilt to show the rest of the school. The idea is so fantastic that a neighboring classroom does the same thing, but in Japanese script to match a student in that class. This story is lovely. In the US, it is rare for most schools to teach separate languages from early ages. But this book reminds all that language is a beautiful thing and just because it doesn‘t 6mo
LibrarianRyan sound American doesn‘t mean it isn‘t, as most American words derive from other languages. 6mo
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