#nadia hashimi

[bookaddict24-7]

NEW YOUNG ADULT RELEASES! (JUNE 4TH, 2024)

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HAVE I MISSED ANY NEW YOUNG ADULT RELEASES? HAVE YOU ADDED ANY OF THESE BOOKS TO YOUR TBR? LET ME KNOW!

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NEW STANDALONES/FIRST IN A SERIES:

Annie LeBlanc is Not Dead Yet by Molly Morris

Four Eids and a Funeral by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé & Adiba Jaigirdar

Heiress Takes All by Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka

Moonstorm by Yoon Ha Lee

Wish You Weren't Here by Erin Baldwin

Two Sides to Every Murder by Danielle Valentine

One Killer Problem by Justine Pucella Winans

The Breakup Artists by Adriana Mather

Take All of Us by Natalie Leif

Louder Than Words by Ashley Woodfolk & Lexi Underwood

Tristan and Lancelot: A Tale of Two Knights by James Persichetti & L.S. Biehler (Illustrator)

Markless by C.G. Malburi

Furious by Jamie Pacton & Rebecca Podos

An Outbreak of Witchcraft by Deborah Noyes & Melissa Duffy (Contributor)

Storm: Dawn of a Goddess by Tiffany D. Jackson

Now, Conjurers by Freddie Kölsch

Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell

Lady of Steel and Straw by Erica Ivy Rodgers

Spilled Ink by Nadia Hashimi

If You Can't Take the Heat by Michael Ruhlman

Lockjaw by Matteo L. Cerilli

London on My Mind by Clara Alves & Nina Perrotta (Translator)

What's Murder Between Friends by Meg Gatland-Veness

NEW SEQUELS:

Past Present Future (Rowan & Neil #2) by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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Happy reading!

[paraspandaras]

“… Çocuklarına sahip olduğu için asla pişman değildi ama bazen onlara gücendiği oluyordu. Tüm anneler kimi zaman böyle hissederdi değil mi? Tüm zamanlarını alan insanlara az da olsa kırgınlık taşımazlar mıydı?”

Nadia Hashimi - Penceresiz Ev

[suspirocotidiano]

Todo mundo precisa de um escape.

A Pérola que Rompeu a Concha – Nadia Hashimi

[inemi]

“Grief is nothing but the far brink of love. Love is the sun; grief is the shadow it casts. Love is an opera; grief is its echo. You cannot have one without the other. But if you follow that grief, you will find your way back to love.”

― Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars

#philosophy #art

[victrabarca]

December Book Club

(art by @quohotos)

Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

While babysitting his little sister, Gregor follows her down a hole in their apartment building’s laundry room and winds up going on an adventure in an underground realm filled with giant creatures. First book in series that Collins wrote before The Hunger Games. It is interesting because it deals with similar themes to THG but for a younger audience and is fantasy instead of sci-fi. (1st in a 5 book series.)

Landline by Rainbow Rowell

This one is a Christmas book! A television writer who's going through a rough patch in her marriage decides to not go with her husband and their kids to their relatives for Christmas because she feels like she needs to work. While her family is away, she discovers an old phone that lets her call her husband in the past, during the time when they were first dating.

The Pearl that Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi

Half contemporary fiction and half historical fiction. It is the story of girl in Afghanistan who is a bacha posh, a girl who lives as a boy for a while for her family's benefit and then has to adjust to becoming a woman and losing the freedom she had as a boy. It is also the story of one of her ancestors who had some similar experiences.

Starsight by Brandon Sanderson

The second book in the Skyward series. I haven't read it, so I don't know if it's good. I have it, though, so you can borrow it.

[ya-world-challenge]

🎊 2-Year Anniversary! 🪅

I started the World Challenge around April 2022, so here's my little 2-year celebratory post with a bunch of stats that no one cares about!!

The stats:

Books read: 70

Countries completed: 66

Total pages read: 23,918

Average rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 3.9 stars

Average publication year: 2015

Average page count per book: 341

Native authors: 74%

Queer books: 24%

YA or MG genre: 68%

As you can see from the number above, it can be hard to find queer books for certain countries. I have also somehow managed to generally pick books that I like, as the ratings show!

Top Genres:

Sources:

Total spent: $41.39

Most of the spent is 2 months of Scribd, and some Kindle sale books. The "Other" is, ahem, when there were no affordable options, and thankfully that was low! Otherwise I managed well with libraries and free trials! (all digital)

Time Periods:

I've also spent the majority of time in the modern world.

Keep reading for the full list of books I've read so far:

🇦🇫 Afghanistan - One Half from the East, Nadia Hashimi

🇦🇷 Argentina - Furia, Yamile Saied Méndez

🇦🇺 Australia - Ghost Bird, Lisa Fuller

🇦🇿 Azerbaijan - The Orphan Sky, Ella Leya

🇧🇸 Bahamas - Facing the Sun, Janice Lynn Mathers

🇧🇴 Bolivia - Woven in Moonlight, Isabel Ibañez

🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina - The Cat I Never Named, Amra Sabic-El-Rayess

🇧🇼 Botswana - Entwined, Cheryl S. Ntumy

🇧🇬 Bulgaria - Wunderkind, Nikolai Grozni

🇨🇦 Canada - This House is Not a Home, Katłıà

🇨🇫 Central African Republic - Beasts of Prey, Ayana Gray*

🇹🇩 Chad - Told by Starlight in Chad, Joseph Brahim Seid

🇨🇳 China - Daughter of the Moon Goddess, Sue Lynn Tan

🇨🇺 Cuba - A Tall Dark Trouble - Vanessa Montalban

🇨🇿 Czech Republic - Torch, Lyn Miller-Lachmann

🇩🇰 Denmark - The Shamer's Daughter, Lene Kaaberbøl

🇪🇪 Estonia - The Man Who Spoke Snakish, Andrus Kivirähk

🇫🇯 Fiji - The Wild Ones, Nafiza Azad

🇫🇷 France - Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow, Faïza Guène

🇬🇪 Georgia - Giorgland Fables, Tamuna Tsertsvadze

🇬🇷 Greece - Threads That Bind, Kika Hatzopoulou

🇬🇱 Greenland - Last Night in Nuuk, Niviaq Korneliussen

🇬🇩 Grenada - Sugar Money, Jane Harris

🇮🇳 India - Lioness of Punjab, Anita Jari Kharbanda

🇮🇩 Indonesia - The Songbird and the Ramubutan Tree - Lucille Abendanon

🇮🇷 Iran - Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

🇮🇶 Iraq - Yazidi!, Aurélien Ducoudray & Mini Ludvin

🇮🇪 Ireland - All Our Hidden Gifts, Caroline O'Donoghue

🇯🇵 Japan - Lonely Castle in the Mirror, Mizuki Tsujimura

🇯🇴 Jordan - West of the Jordan, Laila Halaby

🇱🇹 Lithuania - Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepatys

🇱🇺 Luxembourg - The Elf of Luxembourg, Tom Weston

🇲🇾 Malaysia - The Weight of Our Sky, Hanna Alkaf

🇲🇹 Malta - The Maltese Dreamer, Catherine Veritas

🇲🇽 Mexico - Secret of the Moon Conch, David Bowles; Guadalupe García McCall

🇲🇦 Morocco - Thorn, Intisar Khanani*

🇳🇵 Nepal - What Elephants Know - Eric Dinerstein

🇳🇱 Netherlands - On the Edge of Gone, Corrine Duyvis

🇳🇬 Nigeria - An Ordinary Wonder, Buki Papillon

🇲🇰 North Macedonia - A Spare Life, Lidija Dimkovska

🇵🇸 Palestine - Travellers Along the Way, Aminah Mae Safi

🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea - Tales from Faif, Baka Barakove Bina; Emily Sekepe Bina

🇵🇱 Poland - When the Angels Left the Old Country, Sacha Lamb

🇵🇹 Portugal - Mariana, Katherine Vaz

🇵🇷 Puerto Rico - The Wicked Bargain, Gabe Cole Novoa

🇷🇴 Romania - And I Darken, Kiersten White

🇷🇺 Russia - Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko

🇷🇼 Rwanda - Our Lady of the Nile, Scholastique Mukasonga

🇱🇨 St. Lucia - 'Til I Find You, Greta Bondieumaitre

🇼🇸 Samoa - Telesā: The Covenant Keeper, Lani Wendt Young

🇸🇲 San Marino - The Gladiator, Harry Turtledove

🇸🇹 São Tomé & Príncipe - The Exiles of Crocodile Island, Henye Meyer

🇬🇧 Scotland - The Library of the Dead, T.L. Huchu

🇸🇳 Senegal - No Heaven for Good Boys, Keisha Bush

🇸🇬 Singapore - Sofia and the Utopia Machine, Judith Huang

🇸🇰 Slovakia - Impossible Escape, Steve Sheinkin

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka - I Am Kavi, Thushanthi Ponweera

🇸🇩 Sudan - Home is Not a Country, Safia Elhillo

🇸🇪 Sweden - The Circle, Sara Elfgren; Mats Strandberg

🇹🇹 Trinidad & Tobago - When the Vibe is Right, Sarah Dass

🇹🇳 Tunisia - Other Names, Other Places, Ola Mustapha

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates - Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson*

🇺🇸 United States - Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger

🇻🇪 Venezuela - The Sun and the Void, Gabriela Romero Lacruz

🇾🇪 Yemen - When a Bulbul Sings, Hawaa Ayoub

🇿🇼 Zimbabwe - All That It Ever Meant, Blessing Musariri

*inspired fantasy world

[colour-of-dream]

"To żal, który jest daleką pochodną miłości. Miłość jest blaskiem, żal rzucanym przez nią cieniem. Miłość jest operą, żal jej echem. Nie możesz mieć jednego, nie dostając też drugiego. Jeśli jednak podążysz za żalem, znajdziesz drogę powrotną do miłości. [...] Płacz zatem, krzycz, uciekaj, śpij, módl się i pisz listy miłosne na piasku. Wyrażaj ten żal, abyś mogła powrócić do miłości, ponieważ lepiej kochać, niż się smucić." ~ Nadia Hashimi "Iskry jak gwiazdy"

[yaworldchallenge]

🇦🇫 Afghanistan

Region: Middle East/Central Asia

One Half from the East

288 pages, published 2016

Original language: English

Native author? Yes

Age: Middle grade

Blurb:

Obayda’s family is in need of some good fortune, and her aunt has an idea to bring the family luck—dress Obayda, the youngest of four sisters, as a boy, a bacha posh.

Life in this in-between place is confusing, but once Obayda meets another bacha posh, everything changes. Their transformation won’t last forever, though—unless the two best friends can figure out a way to make it stick and make their newfound freedoms endure.

Other reps: #disability, physical #muslim #transgender #genderfluid

Genres: #friendship #family  #slice-of-life #contemporary

My thoughts:

So I'm a sucker for gender-bending. No boys in the family? Just change one of your girls to a boy for luck. Such is this Afghan tradition. I am intrigued, so despite being for a younger audience, I picked this book as the main rep for Afghanistan. (The first country in the alphabet, woo!)

Review to come.

Kindle link  |  OpenLibrary link

[petrichor-hiraeth]

"Where does your mind take you?"

"Where can my mind take me? I am heavier than that mountain over your shoulder. My mind cannot move me."

~ Nadia Hashimi, A House Without Windows

[diaryoftruequotes]

Many of our decisions were not decisions at all. We were herded into one choice or another, to put it gently.

Nadia Hashimi

[paraspandaras]

“Er ya da geç hak yerini bulur.” Bu lafı herkes söylese de kimse ardındaki hikayeyi bilmez. (…) Adaletsizlik gibi görünen şey, aslında gecikmiş bir adalet olabilir.

Nadia Hashimi - Penceresiz Ev

[suspirocotidiano]

Acho que todos nós carregamos conosco a história de nossos antepassados. Onde foi que paramos?

A Pérola que Rompeu a Concha – Nadia Hashimi

[lost-generation-lights]

Grief is nothing but the far brink of love. Love is the sun; grief is the shadow it casts. Love is an opera; grief is its echo. You cannot have one without the other. But if you follow that grief, you will find your way back to love.

Sparks Like Stars, Nadia Hashimi

[victrabarca]

March 2024 Book Club

Attack on Titan Colossal Edition #1 by Hajime Isayama

Refresh your memory of the series before watching the final anime episodes by reading the manga. You will also enjoy understanding elements of the story in a different light than you did at first because of things that were revealed later. (Available from me.)

The Pearl that Broke its Shell by Nadia Hashimi

Half contemporary fiction and half historical fiction. It is the story of girl in Afghanistan who is a bacha posh, a girl who lives as a boy for a while for her family’s benefit and then has to adjust to becoming a woman and losing the freedom she had as a boy. It is also the story of one of her ancestors who had some similar experiences. (Available from the library.)

Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson

The first book in the Reckoners trilogy and the first Sanderson book I ever read. One day, people start getting superpowers! Problem is, they all turn into villains. A group of vigilantes without powers works to figure out their weaknesses and bring them down. (Not set in the Cosmere.) (Available from the library.)

The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

Fantasy novel about a thief who talks a little too much about his accomplishments and gets caught and thrown in jail. He is given a chance to regain his freedom when he is recruited to steal a mythical artifact for the king. It's the first book in a series of 6, but it can be read on its own. (Available from me.)

[ya-world-challenge]

Challenge progress

Stress levels have been super high lately and I haven't been reviewing here as much, but I'm still reading ('cuz one has to escape sometimes). I'm up to 36 finished now, newly finished are in bold.

My up next list are the rolls from the randomizer that I haven't read yet. It's been determined to keep me in Europe lately (straying a little to Azerbaijan), plus there are two African countries I've been putting off because I have to buy them. :/

36 of 208 countries/regions

🇦🇫 Afghanistan - One Half from the East, Nadia Hashimi

🇦🇷 Argentina - Furia, Yamile Saied Méndez

🇧🇸 Bahamas - Facing the Sun, Janice Lynn Mathers

🇧🇴 Bolivia - Woven in Moonlight + Written in Starlight, Isabel Ibañez

🇧🇼 Botswana - Entwined, Cheryl S. Ntumy

🇨🇦 Canada - This House is Not a Home, Katłıà

🇨🇫 Central African Republic - Beasts of Prey, Ayana Gray*

🇨🇳 China - Daughter of the Moon Goddess, Sue Lynn Tan

🇨🇿 Czech Republic - Torch, Lyn Miller-Lachmann

🇪🇪 Estonia - The Man Who Spoke Snakish, Andrus Kivirähk

🇫🇯 Fiji - The Wild Ones, Nafiza Azad

🇫🇷 France - Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow, Faïza Guène

🇬🇷 Greece - Tina’s Web, Alki Zei

🇬🇱 Greenland - Last Night in Nuuk, Niviaq Korneliussen

🇬🇩 Grenada - Sugar Money, Jane Harris

🇮🇳 India - Lioness of Punjab, Anita Jari Kharbanda

🇮🇪 Ireland - All Our Hidden Gifts, Caroline O'Donoghue

🇯🇵 Japan - Lonely Castle in the Mirror, Mizuki Tsujimura

🇱🇹 Lithuania - Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepatys

🇲🇾 Malaysia - The Weight of Our Sky, Hanna Alkaf

🇲🇦 Morocco - Thorn, Intisar Khanani*

🇳🇬 Nigeria - An Ordinary Wonder, Buki Papillon

🇲🇰 North Macedonia - A Spare Life, Lidija Dimkovska

🇵🇸 Palestine - Travellers Along the Way, Aminah Mae Safi

🇵🇱 Poland - When the Angels Left the Old Country, Sacha Lamb

🇵�� Puerto Rico - The Wicked Bargain, Gabe Cole Novoa

🇷🇴 Romania - And I Darken, Kiersten White

🇷🇺 Russia - Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko

🇼🇸 Samoa - Telesā: The Covenant Keeper, Lani Wendt Young

🇬🇧 Scotland - The Library of the Dead, T.L. Huchu

🇸🇬 Singapore - Sofia and the Utopia Machine, Judith Huang

🇸🇪 Sweden - The Circle, Sara B. Elfgren & Mats Strandberg

🇹🇹 Trinidad & Tobago - When the Vibe is Right, Sarah Dass

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates - Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson*

🇺🇸 United States - Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger

🇿🇼 Zimbabwe - All That It Ever Meant, Blessing Musariri

*inspired

Currently reading: 🇵🇹 Portugal - Mariana, Katherine Vaz 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan - The Orphan Sky, Ella Leya

To read: 🇲🇹 Malta - Eight Pointed Cross, Marthese Fenech 🇸🇳 Senegal - No Heaven for Good Boys, Keisha Bush 🇸🇹 São Tomé & Príncipe - Native Dance, Gervásio Kaiser 🇱🇺 Luxembourg - The Elf of Luxembourg, Tom Weston

[bintadnan]

The Pearl That Broke Its Shell, Nadia Hashimi.