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Registered by pam99 of Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland United Kingdom on 12/28/2013
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2 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by pam99 from Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland United Kingdom on Saturday, December 28, 2013
to read and release
challenging stories of life for Egyptian expatriates in the US post 9/11, set around the medical faculty at the University of Illinois. Some quite dark stuff here around identity, religion, culture, power and relationships, and a particularly dark ending, but Al Aswany is a great storyteller.
posting to the winner of the Global Sweepstakes
Thank you pam99! It looks good; I've heard of this author but have never read anything by him. (Love the cover, too).
Thanks also for the nice Glasgow postcard.
I never win sweepstakes so this is really special!
Edit 4/15/17: I'm partway through this book and am enjoying it (I often read several books at once) :-) . Am offering it in bookstogive's General Literature VBB. As soon as it's requested, I'll finish it...if not before. :-)
Thanks also for the nice Glasgow postcard.
I never win sweepstakes so this is really special!
Edit 4/15/17: I'm partway through this book and am enjoying it (I often read several books at once) :-) . Am offering it in bookstogive's General Literature VBB. As soon as it's requested, I'll finish it...if not before. :-)
Finally finished/reread this, and I did like it. Sometimes I start too many books at once and then some get left behind. This was an interesting and sometimes amusing story of the difficulty of integrating into a new society, especially the vagaries of intercultural intimate relationships.
There were so many characters that I did go to Wikipedia to get capsule descriptions of them. It was helpful. :-) In many books I need help keeping the characters sorted.
Thanks, pam99, for sharing this book!
There were so many characters that I did go to Wikipedia to get capsule descriptions of them. It was helpful. :-) In many books I need help keeping the characters sorted.
Thanks, pam99, for sharing this book!
Journal Entry 6 by eponine38 at Little Free Library, Todd Rd. in Lexington, Massachusetts USA on Monday, September 23, 2019
Released 4 yrs ago (9/22/2019 UTC) at Little Free Library, Todd Rd. in Lexington, Massachusetts USA
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Welcome to BookCrossing!
Please make a journal entry so we know this book has found a new home.You don't need to join BookCrossing and you can remain completely anonymous. However, we encourage you to join so that you can follow this book's future travels. (You’ll receive an email anytime someone makes a journal entry). It's fun, free, and confidential. If you decide to join, consider listing eponine38 as referring you.
Take your time reading the book, and after you finish, please make another journal entry to record your thoughts about it. This book is now yours, and you can keep it if you choose, though we would love for you to share it. If you pass it along, please make a release note to let others know where you left it “in the wild”, or a journal entry if you gave/sent it to a known person.
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