Book Review for: I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn
I was so sure I was going to love I Love You So Mochi, I just knew it, so what went wrong? This book is about a Japanese-American girl in...
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Feb 10, 20222 min read
Book Review for: Dream, Du'a, Do by Ruzina Ahad
I never mentioned this out loud before, but I really, really wished a book like Dream, Du’a, Do existed for us modern day Muslimahs. My...
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Jan 25, 20222 min read
Book Review for: Shaytan or Nafs: Who is Our Stronger Enemy? by Umm Mohammad
I will cut the chase and tell you, this book motivated me to finally learn to read Arabic so I could read the Holy Quran. I spent years...
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Jan 3, 20222 min read
Book Review for: The Flat Share by Beth O'Leary
The Flat Share started in such a boring way - in SUCH A BORING FRICKIN’ WAY, that I wanted to DNF it even before completing the first...
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Jan 3, 20222 min read
Book Review for: The Last Hotel by Joni Scott
The Last Hotel is the first book I ever read that spoke about the pandemic, so when I say I haven’t read anything like this before, I...
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Jan 3, 20222 min read
Book Review for: When The Two Seas Meet by Mumtaz Raffi
The complicated relationship between a mother in-law and a daughter in-law was defined profoundly in this beautiful book called When the...
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Jan 3, 20222 min read
Book Review for: The Secret Life of Dubai’s Street Cats by Bashayer Arif
You can call me dramatic all you want, but The Secret Life of Dubai’s Street Cats really made my heart melt – in a good way. The book...
Samama Reads
Jan 3, 20221 min read
Book Review for: Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep was a sweet, soothing book of poetry, and the illustrations within made it even better. In fact, I...
Samama Reads
Jan 3, 20221 min read
Book Review for: The Pigeon Whisperer by Motaz H. Matar
I knew The Pigeon Whisperer would be an absolute 5 stars read for me as soon as I completed the first chapter, so I kept a highlighter...
Samama Reads
Jan 3, 20221 min read
Book Review for: The 28 Mansions of the Moon: A Novel of Ibn Arabi by Motaz H. Matar
28 Mansions of the Moon has been the most sophisticated book I read this year. The story gave me a unique sort of vibe, as if I were...
Samama Reads
Jan 3, 20222 min read
Book Review for: The Genesis of Seven (The Empyrean Trilogy, #1) by Sara M. Schaller
I loved the creative mind of the author of The Genesis of Seven. I loved how she twisted the stories we used to hear in our childhood and...
Samama Reads
Jan 3, 20221 min read
Book Review for: You’re One of Them by Sayo Juba
When writing a book, a writer gets many words, spaces, paragraphs and pages to express their stories and be able to make an impact on...
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Jan 3, 20222 min read
Book Review for: Zombierella: Fairy Tales Gone Bad by Joseph Coelho
The book Zombierella didn’t only look wonderful from the outside, but the story inside was wonderful too, with all the peculiar twists...
Samama Reads
Jan 3, 20222 min read
Book Review for: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia is the kind of book that could easily give you nightmares. The book is about a girl called Noemi...
Samama Reads
Jan 3, 20222 min read
Book Review for: Shamed by Sarbjit Kaur Athwal
Reading Shamed by Sarbjit Kaur Athwal horrified me. It horrified me to know that there are people in this world who are so cruel, so...
Samama Reads
Jan 3, 20222 min read
Book Review for: Love and Chocolate Biscuits by Karen Williams
Love and Chocolate Biscuits is a story about Polly, a sweet 35 year old woman living in a peaceful city in Hampshire, U.K, still...
Samama Reads
Jan 3, 20222 min read
Book Review for: Life Lessons and Tales of Little MisFit S.K. Grunin
This is the first time I ever became a fan of an 8 year old badass girl who hit bullies with her metal lunch box for trying to look under...
Samama Reads
Jan 3, 20222 min read
Book Review for: The Sisters of Straygarden Place by Hayley Chewins
The Sister of Straygarden Place was such an amazing and magical story to read. It was about three sisters living in a palace where...
Samama Reads
Jan 3, 20222 min read
Book Review for: Beauty Mark: A Verse Novel of Marilyn Monroe by Carole Boston Weatherford
“No one knows how it feels inside my troubled mind. No one wants to.” I only ever knew who Marilyn Monroe was and how she had died. I had...
Samama Reads
Jan 3, 20221 min read
Book Review for: Gargantis by Thomas Taylor
After continuously reading grown up books for a very long while, I decided to shift my reading gear in reverse and read something from...
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