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" I just finished this book after starting it two years ago on a fun solo trip that I took to Victoria, BC. I spent the entire weekend sitting in various coffee shops and tea houses reading this book. It was a perfect thing to do on a recreational trip with it's stories of intrigue and mystery. It took, this group reading it for me to finish the last hundred pages or so though.
I was most interested in seeing how pervasive faith and God was to the Middle Eastern culture. Every single story has God thanked as the result of a blessing given or a curse avoided. I really liked the phrase, "until they were visited by the terminator of delights and separator of companions".
I also thought it was fun learning a whole host of new words such as Jinn, wezir, Khan etc. Not sure I will make the effort to read the longer version of this, but it was a fun read.
I've done a longer review @ www.magic-and-mystery.blogspot.com
I was most interested in seeing how pervasive faith and God was to the Middle Eastern culture. Every single story has God thanked as the result of a blessing given or a curse avoided. I really liked the phrase, "until they were visited by the terminator of delights and separator of companions".
I also thought it was fun learning a whole host of new words such as Jinn, wezir, Khan etc. Not sure I will make the effort to read the longer version of this, but it was a fun read.
I've done a longer review @ www.magic-and-mystery.blogspot.com
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