Love from A to Z
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S. K. Ali
A Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick “The bighearted, wildly charming, painfully real love story I’ve been waiting for.” —Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda From William C. Morris Award Finalist S.K. Ali comes a “heartfelt and powerful” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) romance that’s The Sun Is Also a Star meets Anna and the French Kiss, following two Muslim teens who meet during a spring break trip.A marvel: something you find amazing. Even ordinary-amazing. Like potatoes—because they make French fries happen. Like the perfect fries Adam and his mom used to make together. An oddity: whatever gives you pause. Like the fact that there are hateful people in the world. Like Zayneb’s teacher, who won’t stop reminding the class how “bad” Muslims are. But Zayneb, the only Muslim in class, isn’t bad. She’s angry. When she gets suspended for confronting her teacher, and he begins investigating her activist friends, Zayneb heads to her aunt’s house in Doha, Qatar, for an early start to spring break. Fueled by the guilt of getting her friends in trouble, she resolves to try out a newer, “nicer” version of herself in a place where no one knows her. Then her path crosses with Adam’s. Since he got diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in November, Adam’s stopped going to classes, intent, instead, on perfecting the making of things. Intent on keeping the memory of his mom alive for his little sister. Adam’s also intent on keeping his diagnosis a secret from his grieving father. Alone, Adam and Zayneb are playing roles for others, keeping their real thoughts locked away in their journals. Until a marvel and an oddity occurs… Marvel: Adam and Zayneb meeting. Oddity: Adam and Zayneb meeting.
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Teen Romance
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Author
S. K. Ali
Pages
352
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2019-04-30
ISBN
153444274X 9781534442740
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"A wonderfully touching love story filled with self acceptance, healing, and striving to be the change we wish to see in our society. The idea of marvels and oddities is clever, engaging, and brilliantly shows how the simplest, to the most complex details of living, are a wonder that we should more often stop and savor. This is not just a love story of romance; it is a love story for parents, friends, faith, and to oneself. Refreshing and so very relevant. I can’t wait for the sequel! "
"3.3<br/><br/>The portray of Muslims was really good. I never met a Muslim, so i personally don’t know that much about them. Though i did my research about this book and everyone including some Muslims thought that it was portrayed well. The author is Muslim so i trust that it was portrayed correctly. There are some words written in another language. <br/><br/>It was interesting learning about the culture. Most of the book is set in Doha, which is in Quatar (by Africa and Asia). It was nice to have a book set in an area that isn’t the United States. <br/><br/>The beginning was really good. It was a good pace, the romance didn’t move too fast and we got to see Zaynub view on Islamophobia. My favorite parts of the story was when we got to see Islamophobia and how Zaynub reacts to it. I loved it even more when i found out that all the evens related to that was based on personal experiences. <br/><br/>At times the book was slow. The characters were kinda boring. I liked seeing Hannah and Adam’s sibling relationship but they got boring sometimes. The only character i was somewhat interested in was Zaynub but that was mostly because she was the one of the few characters reacting to Islamophobia. <br/><br/>When i started reading this book i thought that it would be similar to The Hate U Give with the character rebelling against racism. There were only a few times that that happens. Most of the book Zaynub is around people that doesn’t care that she’s Muslims or the book forgot about the Islamophobia part of the story. There is only one person in Doha that gives her a hard time but that’s it. It is only three people in the whole book that doesn’t like Muslims. <br/><br/>There was also a part if the story that Adam and Zaynub were talking about they liked eachother but since that would be breaking the rules they used the word water when they were talking about eachother. I kinda wished they would of used something else because it almost sounded like they were talking about sex explecially when they were kept on saying that they were thirsty. <br/><br/>There was a argument that felt like it was there just to make the book longer. Litterly by the end if each if there chapters they weren’t mad anymore. All it took was a character saying that they shouldn’t be mad at each other then suddenly they were fine. <br/><br/>Adam falls in love too quick. He really liked Zaynub on the first meeting. By the third meeting he fell in love. Zaynub was a bit slower but she also fell in love too fast.<br/><br/>I did like having the book set outside the united states but at the same time i wished that we could of stayed and see a bit more of the plot with Fencer. It was kinda in the background. <br/><br/>The ending wasn’t terrible but it could of been better. It kinda just happened so that Zaynub can have her happy ending."
"This book was so precious, highly recommend!! "
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