Listening to the tagged 🎧 #Canada and honestly not enjoying it much, but I am trying to knock someone off my most read chart so on we go!
My ARC right now is Martha Wells Platform Decay out in the states in May
NF = In Exile #Pakistan biography of the author's grandmother
Sunburn #Ireland in the 90s
And then hopefully to #ToB and #Lebanon
#Weeklyforecast
pickThis is Antigone, but it‘s relocated to contemporary Britain. Antigone is Aneeka, and she has a twin brother. They‘re Pakistani Brit who grew up in north London. Her brother has left England to join Isis. Creon becomes a potential prime minister of Pakistani descent. His son Eamon has an unfortunate girlfriend. Esma, Aneeka‘s sister, a phd student, has a unexpected role here, and i think it makes the book. Anyway excellent
bailedVarious characters who are somehow connected to a wealthy family in contemporary Pakistan:an electrician whose motorcycle is stolen,a young woman who enters into relationships with men to secure her financial future,a childless marriage.What just doesn't work for me are the female characters,&the stories are bleak,somehow a variation on the same theme without offering the reader anything new.I loved Mueenuddin‘s The Golden Boy in Nov23 New Yorker.
pickEven more amazing than the decision to cycle from Ireland to India as a solo female traveler in 1963 is the even-tempered, almost dismissive tone with which Murphy describes the series of harrowing situations she encountered along the way. She has a natural, deadpan comic sensibility that's quite endearing, even if unbelievable at times given the gravity of some of the things that happened to her. She's the best kind of traveler- open-minded...
Reading I Am Malala as an ebook. Switching between it and Men Who Hate Women. I‘m listening to In Praise of Paths. The author was diagnosed with epilepsy and had to stop driving, so he took to walking everywhere. The book is meditative and calm. #weekendreads
pickI had not heard of this author but I love her writing and I love the heroine of this book. Dr. Gul Delani, a museum curator in Pakistan, is called to investigate a mummy and the wild ride begins. Mystery, history, violent crime, danger, murder, Gul and her museum team work to authenticate the mummy and uncover all kinds of intrigue in the process. An excellent read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I‘m happy I finally took the time to read this one (definitely would like to read her new book). I learned a lot about that part of the world. I am sad to say I do not know a lot about the area & haven‘t read enough books about either. Sad but inspiring story.
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