pickI got this book for free, in exchange for my honest opinion via NetGalley.
Spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk.
Something More, is a messy young adult love story about a fifteen-year-old high school Palestinian-Canadian girl who is still dealing with her autism diagnosis…
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Read for Palestine week just ended. Picked this up from the library because it was all over TikTok! Really loved it. I remember being just like this in high school.
This poetry collection is Fady Joudah's first, which won the 2007 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Louise Glück chose his collection and also wrote the forward of this book. Joudah transports you to another world with this collection, and I could not put it down. Amazing work by an Arab author! 📚 🌱
#arabamerican #palestinian #poetry
bailedI hate bailing on my #bookspin book, but here we are and I‘m doing it. The writing is so bad I kept having to go back and try to figure out if I missed something. In some places the grammar made no sense whatsoever. Maybe it‘s a bad translation? Oh well, on to the next thing.
1. Single POV
2. Yes, the one tagged above... in Arabic.
3. Mood reader.... though I try to be a "list" reader.
@Eggs #wonderouswednesday
I got this book second hand.
Someone has enthusiastically written (mostly underlining, plus a few comments) throughout. I feel like I'm back at school with one of the class copies of a set text.
Abu Sabir continued, dreamily, 'The first book I ever read was one I borrowed from Shaikh Radi. He was a man of such eloquence that you could listen to him talk for ever. We used to spend whole evenings listening to his wonderful stories...I once asked him where they all came from and he lent me a battered old book with yellowing pages. I polished it off in one evening. Next day I started on another, then another, then another.
Oh Mother, he thought, you're an angel and I'm a lion. But who'll look after you when I die? There's no escaping death. And perhaps there'll be prison, torture, mad dogs. But no matter; there's no alternative. We're dedicated to a cause. When it happens you'll say your son died a martyr. And that he was a true 'lion'.
pickI really enjoyed this book, which gave excellent insights into the impact of the #Palestinian diaspora. Each chapter is written from the perspective of a woman in a resilient multi-generational family from the mid-60s to 2016, and showing how repeated wars, persecution, love, and hope for a better life lead them to Kuwait, Lebanon, Jordan, France, and the U.S. without losing family and ethnic ties.
#Booked2021 #SetInACountryWhereUNPeacekeepersAre
