1) I'm liking the book more right now - it still hasn't really grabbed me but hopefully that will happen at some point!
2) Intisar is a weird character and I can't decide how we are supposed to feel about her. In some ways she feels like more of a plot device than a character. We don't know very much about her motivations and it's hard to tell how she has really felt about Alif. And it seems like she's in a really impossible situation right now.
3) This section was so so so weird, I felt like I was reading something out of Tron
4) Of course Alif will make it out but I am not sure yet if it could be Jinn that help him escape or something else.
1) I'm actually really enjoying it now. I like Alif a little bit more now, and I really enjoyed his discussion with the Shiekh in the mosque, and finding out the old man's point of view isn't much different than his
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Oooh, I wish I'd noticed we were reading this (life has been a bit crazier than usual lately). I read it when it came out and liked it. I'd've re-read it.
As I recall I liked Willow Wilson's style a lot, though I was a bit disappointed in the fluffiness of the tale. Having read her autobiography and knowing she and her Egyptian husband are basically in exile since the Arab Spring I wanted more politics or something. A mythic liberation story.
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2) Intisar is a weird character and I can't decide how we are supposed to feel about her. In some ways she feels like more of a plot device than a character. We don't know very much about her motivations and it's hard to tell how she has really felt about Alif. And it seems like she's in a really impossible situation right now.
3) This section was so so so weird, I felt like I was reading something out of Tron
4) Of course Alif will make it out but I am not sure yet if it could be Jinn that help him escape or something else.
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As I recall I liked Willow Wilson's style a lot, though I was a bit disappointed in the fluffiness of the tale. Having read her autobiography and knowing she and her Egyptian husband are basically in exile since the Arab Spring I wanted more politics or something. A mythic liberation story.
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