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Been sleeping on this guy. Even Madonna beat me to it.

Gold by Rumi

February 2, 2023 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

A great first meeting story.  The year was 1244, when Rumi met Shams in a bazaar in Konya, Persia.  Rumi was a young scholar, and Shams, about twenty years older, was a wandering free thinker.  They got to discussing literature, and Shams challenged Rumi to find his own voice.  Over the course of two years of traveling together, Rumi did just that, and produced sixty five thousand some verses.  This book samples that work. I first ran into his name whilst reading a book on […]

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: 19th century, CBR15Passport, Konya (Persia), Persia, Pure joy, rumi, Sufi mystic

elderberrywine's CBR15 Review No:5 · Genres: Poetry · Tags: 19th century, CBR15Passport, Konya (Persia), Persia, Pure joy, rumi, Sufi mystic ·
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Being a teenager is hard enough without the threat of total annihilation looming on the horizon.

I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi

April 27, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 3 Comments

Jesse, Cate, and Adeem are all just trying to survive- even before they catch wind of an alien planet’s message to earth: you will all be destroyed in seven days. Our main trio holds a treasure trove of teen torments between them: absent parents, the desire to be loved, the inability to accept care, the need to be anywhere other than where they are. Everyone is attempting to find someone who does not necessarily want to be found, and I was worried that we’d being […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #CannonballBookClub, Aliens, coming-of-age, debut novel, end of the world, family drama, Farah Naz Rishi, hafez, Islam, LGBTQ, mental illness, radio, road trip, rumi, teens, The Future is Queer, YA

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:39 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #CannonballBookClub, Aliens, coming-of-age, debut novel, end of the world, family drama, Farah Naz Rishi, hafez, Islam, LGBTQ, mental illness, radio, road trip, rumi, teens, The Future is Queer, YA ·
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