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A review by hopebrasfield
The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
adventurous
challenging
inspiring
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I feel badly for the author because there's no way I couldn't not compare this to Babel as I read it, even if they're completely different books! I should read more translation-centered plots and then come back to my review, of this book; it's likely this is even better than I realize!
A quote that resonated with me:
"Still, I was lucky that at least the leap was conceivable to me. If you could recognize it, I reasoned, if something in you vibrated in attunement to good work, then surely you also contained the capacity to create that kind of work. And on a good day, I even felt like I'd been working towards it, no matter how haphazardly, the leap over the abyss. I had some proximity, after all, to my desired career. I was tuned into my own curiosity and following it, more or less. And so, I reasoned, I needed to keep myself close to what moved me until something emerged."
(I'm not sure if the punctuation is correct here; I listened to the audiobook and couldn't find this exact quote written out anywhere else just yet.)
A quote that resonated with me:
"Still, I was lucky that at least the leap was conceivable to me. If you could recognize it, I reasoned, if something in you vibrated in attunement to good work, then surely you also contained the capacity to create that kind of work. And on a good day, I even felt like I'd been working towards it, no matter how haphazardly, the leap over the abyss. I had some proximity, after all, to my desired career. I was tuned into my own curiosity and following it, more or less. And so, I reasoned, I needed to keep myself close to what moved me until something emerged."
(I'm not sure if the punctuation is correct here; I listened to the audiobook and couldn't find this exact quote written out anywhere else just yet.)