The best page-turner of the year! I remember seeing this book in every bookshop as a bestseller and my attention was immediately caught by the mysterious title and seemingly intriguing cover. The story unfolds in the family-friendly small city of Shaker Heights where artist Mia Warren and her daughter Pearl just settled in their new …
Category: Book reviews
The bucket journal method – Ryder Caroll
Everyone who knows me knows that I love being crafty! If you ever enter a stationary shop with me, good luck trying to get me out of it. From glittery colored-pencils, metallic shades, pattern-custom tapes, acrylic painting tubes to minimalist notebooks, my inner creative side gets all excited as soon as I envision time to …
The Stationery shop – Marjan Kamali
Beautiful prose, sprinkles of poetry, bookworm characters, a heartwarming love story, what else? The Stationery shop is one of those stories that make you believe finishing a wonderful book can make your day. The story is set in 1950s Iran, amidst the political uprisings and the seemingly tense atmosphere of Tehran. Roya, the dreamy and …
Book reviews according to topic
Some books contain a wide variety of topics but I classified them according to the most important one. Identity: In the name of identity- Amin MaaloufThe Lies that bind - Kwame Anthony AppiahA war of words: language and conflict in the Middle East - Yasir SuleimanWe should all be feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiUne bouteille …
Book reviews according to language
Français: Zabor ou les psaumes - Kamel DaoudMeursault, contre-enquête - Kamel DaoudConfidences à Allah - Saphia Azzedine Les vies de papier - Rabih Alammedine Courrier de nuit de Hoda BarakatLa civilisation, ma mère...! - Driss ChraïbiPetit traité sur l'immensité du monde - Sylvain Tesson Le prophète - Khalil GibranLe sable et l'écume - Khalil GibranComme …
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
An unusual read for me! I have often been skipping titles that refer to historical fiction when I am in bookstores but seeing this book as a bestseller for months in a row, I decided to give it a try and I couldn't be more glad to have done that. Having in mind that it …
Elif Shafak – Three daughters of Eve
I must admit that after reading Elif Shafak's "The forty rules of love", I became skeptical about her writing. You might wonder, how is that even possible given that her book received so much praise along a cheerful audience of its own? I am not sure that I am able to put it into words …
Kamel Daoud- Zabor ou les psaumes
L'émission "La grande librairie" présentée par François Busnel m'avait introduit il y a quelques mois au dernier livre de l'écrivain et journaliste Algérien Kamel Daoud: Zabor ou les psaumes. C'est ce mois-ci que je découvris son roman particulièrement intriguant puisque l'auteur a entrepris d'écrire un livre sur les livres, une initiative intéressante mais qui relève …
Eat, pray, love by Elizabeth Gilbert
A wonderful ode to self-discovery that I cherished until the very last page. Gilbert's talent for storytelling blew me away once more, making her other books climb up my pile of books on my shelf. The story starts with a narration of Elizabeth's extremely hard divorce which led her to desperately turn to God for …
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