Sofia Khan is Not Obliged
RECOMMENDED: Sofia Khan is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik is 99c! It has a new cover and I really like this updated one. Carrie reviewed this on and gave it B+:
This book succeeds because Sofia is so delightful. She’s devout but she sneaks cigarettes sometimes (often, actually). She’s smart and funny, but also young and uncertain. She makes a lot of mistakes but she’s always trying to do the right thing. She loves her family and they love her. Her voice is distinctive and endearing.
‘Brilliant idea! Excellent! Muslim dating? Well, I had no idea you were allowed to date.’ Then he leaned towards me and looked at me sympathetically. ‘Are your parents quite disappointed?’
Unlucky in love once again after her sort-of-boyfriend/possible-marriage-partner-to-be proves a little too close to his parents, Sofia Khan is ready to renounce men for good. Or at least she was, until her boss persuades her to write a tell-all expose about the Muslim dating scene.
As her woes become her work, Sofia must lean on the support of her brilliant friends, baffled colleagues and baffling parents as she seeks stories for her book. But in amongst the marriage-crazy relatives, racist tube passengers and polygamy-inclined friends, could there be a lingering possibility that she might just be falling in love . . . ?
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The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald is $1.99! Sarah picked this for January 2016’s Hide Your Wallet. Other readers said the book does a great job of creating a sense of place. However, some felt there was a lot of repetition in the book and the interactions felt forced. We also had a great guest review of this one!
This is a book about books. All sorts of books, from Little Women and Harry Potter to Jodi Picoult and Jane Austen, from to Stieg Larsson to Joyce Carol Oates to Proust. It’s about the joy and pleasure of books, about learning from and escaping into them, and possibly even hiding behind them. It’s about whether or not books are better than real life.
It’s also a book about a Swedish girl called Sara, her elderly American penfriend Amy and what happens when you land a very different kind of bookshop in the middle of a town so broken it’s almost beyond repair.
Or is it?
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The Secret, Book & Scone Society by Ellery Adams is $1.99! This is book one in a cozy mystery series of the same name. I will gripe that the inconsistent use of the Oxford comma in both the book description and series name, but not the title irks me. Unless…secret is describing the society, but I don’t think that needs a comma. Please word nerds, help me make sense of this.
From New York Times bestselling author Ellery Adams comes the first in an intriguing new series set within a quirky small-town club where the key to happiness, friendship—or solving a murder—can all be found within the pages of the right book . . .
Miracle Springs, North Carolina, is a place of healing. Strangers flock here hoping the natural hot springs, five-star cuisine, and renowned spa can cure their ills. If none of that works, they often find their way to Miracle Books, where, over a fresh-baked “comfort” scone from the Gingerbread House bakery, they exchange their stories with owner Nora Pennington in return for a carefully chosen book. That’s Nora’s special talent—prescribing the perfect novel to ease a person’s deepest pain and lighten their heaviest burden.
When a visiting businessman reaches out to Nora for guidance, she knows exactly which novels will help. But before he can keep their appointment at Miracle Books, he’s found dead on the train tracks.
Stunned, Nora forms the Secret, Book, and Scone Society, a group of damaged souls yearning to gain trust and earn redemption by helping others. To join the society, members must divulge their darkest secret—the terrible truth that brought each of them to Miracle Springs in the first place.
Determined to uncover the truth behind the businessman’s demise, the women meet in Nora’s cramped and cozy bookstore to share stories and trade support. And as they untangle a web of corruption, they also discover their own courage, purpose, and a sisterhood that will carry them through every challenge—proving it’s never too late to turn the page and start over . . .
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RECOMMENDED: Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard is $2.99! If you’re looking for a laugh, Elyse recommends this one. She gave it an A grade:
If you enjoy steampunk, dry humor or peeing your pants a little, then check Johannes out. The incontinence is worth it.
A charmingly gothic, fiendishly funny Faustian tale about a brilliant scientist who makes a deal with the Devil, twice.
Johannes Cabal sold his soul years ago in order to learn the laws of necromancy. Now he wants it back. Amused and slightly bored, Satan proposes a little wager: Johannes has to persuade one hundred people to sign over their souls or he will be damned forever. This time for real. Accepting the bargain, Jonathan is given one calendar year and a traveling carnival to complete his task. With little time to waste, Johannes raises a motley crew from the dead and enlists his brother, Horst, a charismatic vampire to help him run his nefarious road show, resulting in mayhem at every turn.
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@Amanda, the word secret is part of a list rather than a descriptor for the word book, hence the comma. The writer/editor has not let you down.
Although, stories about secret books? Yum.
“And” is spelled out in the description and series name. No comma in front of an ampersand.
Definitely recommend Johannes Cabal the Necromancer and it is a GREAT spooky season book! I usually re-read this one or the short stories around this time each year.
I loved Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged, but to this day I am afraid to read the sequel because I have surmised there is no HEA.
“Ducks:Two Years in the Oil Sands” by Kate Beaton has great reviews, although I haven’t read it yet. It’s on Scribd. It’s a graphic memoir about the time the author spent working in Alberta, Canada, during the oil drilling boom. She undertook this work to pay off her student loans.
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@Karin
There is actually a third (long movella/short novel) book in the series.
The Readers of Broken Wheel recommend sounds great. Unfortunately, it’s not on sale for the price listed…
@Lori-That’s a shame-I loved that book. I got it from the library, and I would have bought my own if it was at that sale price.
@Karin: I would advise anyone who loves Sofia Khan and wants to keep an HEA NOT read the sequel. A friend and I both read it and we had a LOT of things to say, pretty much all of them angry. The first book is a delight, though.
(Although I always wonder at people who think they can “sneak” cigarettes. No. Anyone who doesn’t smoke can smell it on you. It is in the air you exhale because your breath smells like an ashtray.)
Amazon UK has Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon on sale today. It has jumped to the top of my Amazon wish list when I sorted by price – love it when a book does that!
@Karin,@HeatherS
For what it’s worth, the Goodreads reviews seem to suggest that the third book gets the HEA back.
@Maureen – I added it to my long list of “check out someday” books on my library account.