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A review by tahoorahashmi
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
5.0
I could clearly see why this book got nominated for Booker Prize. It had me shook from the start!
I didn't prepare a proper review for this one or jot down points but I simply enjoyed the audiobook while quietly listening to it. There was no way I was distracting my mind by pausing after every few minutes because IT'S THAT BOOK thay make you want to talk about so many things at a time, makes you super angry, pause to breathe, get emotional but also makes you want to hear more and more!
Let me explain the title to you guys if anyone of you happen to not know, 10 min 38 sec is the maximum time a person has his memories or conscious after dying. Laila have died and every minute she is remembering something off from her memory, for eg. On one of the mins. she remembers the taste of watermelon. Now the author takes us on a journey on what that taste had to do with her life, why is she remembering it, what was so significant and the back story of it.
Tequila Laila, her birth, her upbringing, her family, her work, her 5 true friends, their lives is all one by one explained in detail. I can't start to explain what exactly her life was about because there were 5 more lives touched and not talking about them won't do justice to the plot but at the same time I don't want to give it all away, YOU UNDERSTAND MY STRUGGLE?!
Towards the end the books pace slightly slowed down for me or maybe it was because I was reading multiple books at a time so I couldn't concentrate much towards the end but overall IT WAS A GREAT GREAT READ!
4.8
I didn't prepare a proper review for this one or jot down points but I simply enjoyed the audiobook while quietly listening to it. There was no way I was distracting my mind by pausing after every few minutes because IT'S THAT BOOK thay make you want to talk about so many things at a time, makes you super angry, pause to breathe, get emotional but also makes you want to hear more and more!
Let me explain the title to you guys if anyone of you happen to not know, 10 min 38 sec is the maximum time a person has his memories or conscious after dying. Laila have died and every minute she is remembering something off from her memory, for eg. On one of the mins. she remembers the taste of watermelon. Now the author takes us on a journey on what that taste had to do with her life, why is she remembering it, what was so significant and the back story of it.
Tequila Laila, her birth, her upbringing, her family, her work, her 5 true friends, their lives is all one by one explained in detail. I can't start to explain what exactly her life was about because there were 5 more lives touched and not talking about them won't do justice to the plot but at the same time I don't want to give it all away, YOU UNDERSTAND MY STRUGGLE?!
Towards the end the books pace slightly slowed down for me or maybe it was because I was reading multiple books at a time so I couldn't concentrate much towards the end but overall IT WAS A GREAT GREAT READ!
4.8