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nupurm's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
5.0
nats_bookventures's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
4.5
hardyju's review against another edition
emotional
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
2.0
bear_miya90's review against another edition
relaxing
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
drridareads's review against another edition
5.0
Eid Mubarak everyone!
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Highly recommend to everyone. It's time to diversify what you read and learn about other experiences. There's a lot of misconceptions and Islamophobia out there educate yourself
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I'm a 23 year old Muslim. When I was growing up there were no mainstream books with Muslim characters except for maybe The Kite Runner but that was a refugee story. I'm not saying that's not important; it was and I love that book. But the Muslims you see regularly like us did not have characters experiences to relate too.
And it's not just us Muslims; it's most of us POC and non christians. Growing up our children's books were filled with white characters. All illustrations were white. Books movies everything is about Christmas; we don't see other cultures or religions and it's not fair. Colouring in school we were told to use peaches and pinks for the skin no matter what colour was our skin. Reflecting on it I thought maybe it had something to do with the fact that my early school years were in a white majority place ( does not excuse it though there were a lot of black, brown kids in my class and a few east Asians and none of us were peach). But my sister is now 6 and we live where in a place where all of us are brown; and one day when we're sitting colouring she tells me that her teacher told her to colour face as peach. I was so annoyed and then I told her I don't know anyone that's peach. We then looked at pictures of people and illustrations over the internet and ended up using brown shades of brown with light browns and dark browns and all beautiful. I'm so glad my sister has a few books which have characters of colour illustrations and even one with a visibly Muslim - hijabi in them. Because let's be honest I'm so done with peach.
So you can tell how excited I must've been when I saw on social media S. K Ali and Aisha Saeed announce that their bringing an anthology of Eid related short stories in collaboration with other amazing writers.
I buddy read during Eid (perfect time) this with amazing GR friends Ahmed Ejaz and
Sabat.
This heart warming Muslim collection is filled with diverse stories representing different Muslim cultures; and a convert story; and being from a divorced family; and a refugee story and even being a minority within Muslims. Because there is no one typical Muslim Eid story it's different for all us but at the heart it's about the same thing coming together of a community. I wish these stories had been around when I younger but I'm happy they finally are.
1. Perfect by Jamilah Tompkins-Bigelow: ✰✰✰
Overall fun story about African culture. Favourite scene was when Fanta's mom orders her through her eyes. Like that was so relatable whenever we're in public or out moms are scolding us and ordering us through their eyes
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Highly recommend to everyone. It's time to diversify what you read and learn about other experiences. There's a lot of misconceptions and Islamophobia out there educate yourself
____
I'm a 23 year old Muslim. When I was growing up there were no mainstream books with Muslim characters except for maybe The Kite Runner but that was a refugee story. I'm not saying that's not important; it was and I love that book. But the Muslims you see regularly like us did not have characters experiences to relate too.
And it's not just us Muslims; it's most of us POC and non christians. Growing up our children's books were filled with white characters. All illustrations were white. Books movies everything is about Christmas; we don't see other cultures or religions and it's not fair. Colouring in school we were told to use peaches and pinks for the skin no matter what colour was our skin. Reflecting on it I thought maybe it had something to do with the fact that my early school years were in a white majority place ( does not excuse it though there were a lot of black, brown kids in my class and a few east Asians and none of us were peach). But my sister is now 6 and we live where in a place where all of us are brown; and one day when we're sitting colouring she tells me that her teacher told her to colour face as peach. I was so annoyed and then I told her I don't know anyone that's peach. We then looked at pictures of people and illustrations over the internet and ended up using brown shades of brown with light browns and dark browns and all beautiful. I'm so glad my sister has a few books which have characters of colour illustrations and even one with a visibly Muslim - hijabi in them. Because let's be honest I'm so done with peach.
So you can tell how excited I must've been when I saw on social media S. K Ali and Aisha Saeed announce that their bringing an anthology of Eid related short stories in collaboration with other amazing writers.
I buddy read during Eid (perfect time) this with amazing GR friends Ahmed Ejaz and
Sabat.
This heart warming Muslim collection is filled with diverse stories representing different Muslim cultures; and a convert story; and being from a divorced family; and a refugee story and even being a minority within Muslims. Because there is no one typical Muslim Eid story it's different for all us but at the heart it's about the same thing coming together of a community. I wish these stories had been around when I younger but I'm happy they finally are.
1. Perfect by Jamilah Tompkins-Bigelow: ✰✰✰
Overall fun story about African culture. Favourite scene was when Fanta's mom orders her through her eyes. Like that was so relatable whenever we're in public or out moms are scolding us and ordering us through their eyes
sultanareads's review against another edition
5.0
I gotta say i LOVED reading this book.
It is written so well and it gave a perfect example on what EID is and how different every family from different backgrounds and culters celebrate it. And how it makes us all united.
The illustration were done beautifully
It is written so well and it gave a perfect example on what EID is and how different every family from different backgrounds and culters celebrate it. And how it makes us all united.
The illustration were done beautifully
avasisx's review against another edition
4.0
This was really heartwarming and wholesome. I'm unfamiliar with Islam but this book gave me a feeling of the celebrations and meaning of Ramadan and eid. I really enjoyed all of the stories - particularly the story of Eid at a refugee accommodation in Greece.
tortello_alla_zucca's review against another edition
emotional
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
dhiyanah's review
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
4.0
My favorites were Seraj Captures the Moon and Maya Madinah Chooses Joy.