I want to begin by stating that as a British Pakistani I have a lot of time for Pakistani fiction. I really appreciate being able to connect to a culture and a people vicariously. I haven’t visited Pakistan for seven years now, but for most of my life I used to go every other year…
Category: book review
On Palestine | Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappe
Given the current situation in Palestine, with Israeli soldiers (Israeli Offence Force – IOF) storming into the Al Aqsa mosque on one of the holiest nights in the Islamic calendar, guns a-blazing, attackinginnocent worshipers congregating to pray the night prayer during Ramadan, I thought it was imperative upon me to learn more about the Israel/Palestine…
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
“Influenza delle stelle—the influence of the stars. Medieval Italians thought the illness proved that the heavens were governing their fates, that people were quite literally star-crossed”
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
This Hybrid Reads 