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Review: Ishara Deen’s God Smites and Other Muslim Girl Problems

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📚Currently reading : selected short stories by Sadat Hussain Manto 📚 . ✈️Courtesy of Bangalore airport ✈️ . . #bookstagram #bookworm #diversereads #urduliterature #readersofinstagram #booksofinsta #flashbackfriday

💥🎃Halloween Blog Special🎃💥 . I am wierdly into female criminals so this book about female serial killers really got me excited! 🙅🏽♀️🙅🏽‍♀️ . 'My sister. The serial killer' by Oyinkan Braithwaite is a snappy thriller about two siblings that take sisterhood to the extreme. . Would you help your sister out of she was a murderer? . Outside of my morbid fascination with murder, I believe crime fiction - both in literature and on TV - is a heavily gendered space. Altough these reflect the gendered nature of real life crime perpetrated on women, rewriting criminal narratives can be a form of agency. Flipping the prey for the predator is a form of agency in itself. . Go to the blog to find out more! Link in bio . 📚☠️📚 #diversereads #diverselit #crimefiction #feministreads #woc #nigerianliterature #representation #igreads #bookworm #bookstagram #bookreview #serialkillers

⛅ Spent the last weekend of Summer finishing Audre Lorde's autobiography ⛅ . . Lorde calls it a 'biomythography'. I like the honesty in that. It alludes to the fact that no documentation of life or history is free from the narratives your memory and personal ideology weaves around it. . 🙏🏾 . Set in the political climate of pre-civil rights, cold war America this book outlines Lorde's life. What struck me most about her story is the emphasis on the need for a supportive feminist network. And the struggle to create one that is truly inclusive and intersectional. Something that is still a struggle to achieve in feminist spaces today 💭 . Has you read it? What did you think? . 🙋🏾‍♀️ . #diversereads #audrelorde #woc #feministreads #autobiography #igreads #bookstagram #instabooks #bookworm #diverselit #representation #readersofinstagram#diversebookbloggers

📚 INSTA BOOK REVIEW 📚 . . Ponti by Sharlene Tao centres on the lives of three women – frenemies Cerce and Szu and Amisa, and Amisa, Szu’s large than life mum. It explores the dynamics of fundamental female relationships. Cerce and Szu have a brief but intense and defining friendship. While Szu and Amisa have a troubled mother-daughter relationship. ➕ The story is narrated from the perspective of the three women and across time - 1980s during Amisa’s early Life, 2003 the peak of Cerce and Szu’s friendship and 2020 Cerce’s current life. It is in interesting style that never fully exposes the story but creates a curiosity that made me want to keep reading. ➕ However, I was a little disappointed with the ending. The whole book builds up this big thing that happened between Szu and Cerce and Amisa but the ending never really resolves it. ➕ I would have also liked to see more of Amisa, the distant and ghostly character who is clearly a central pillar to the story. ➕ All in all I’m glad I read it but wanted a bit more power at the end. 💥 Have you read Ponti? What do you think? 🙋🏾‍♀️ #singaporeanliterature #diverselit #asianlit #femaleliterature #friendship #diverselit #igreads #booksofinstagram #readersofinstagram

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