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A review by jenmooremo
Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea
4.0
What a truly delightful book! This was a book that I had seen in Borders on a shelf that said, "If you liked (this) then read (that)". I wrote it down figuring that it would a mediocre read that I might even curse the time I wasted on finishing the book. BUT it turned out to be one that I cursed the clock that said it was time to go to bed, go back to work from a break, or simply get busy with all the other things there are to do in life.
This young author presents the life of her upper class best friends in Saudi Arabia in a weekly e-mail yahoo group. The writing is very conversational and allows you to get so involved with the characters you find yourself cheering, jeering, crying, cursing and rejoicing right along with them. This was a great example of the fact that regardless of geography, culture and religion that men are men and women are women and they all experience the same emotions as they interact each other.
Good read for that one person that e-mailed me recently to say to get my head out of so many book--I think she'd enjoy it even more than I did.
This young author presents the life of her upper class best friends in Saudi Arabia in a weekly e-mail yahoo group. The writing is very conversational and allows you to get so involved with the characters you find yourself cheering, jeering, crying, cursing and rejoicing right along with them. This was a great example of the fact that regardless of geography, culture and religion that men are men and women are women and they all experience the same emotions as they interact each other.
Good read for that one person that e-mailed me recently to say to get my head out of so many book--I think she'd enjoy it even more than I did.