Challenge catch up post. Read this a while ago for #fourfoursin22 aromatic, cause of the title. Turns out the title didn't have much to do with the story but I enjoyed this romance anyway! Especially the Ontario setting, always fun to read a story set places you know.
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pickAmira heads home so that she can finish the last project for her Masters in peace and quiet only to find that a barbershop quartet has moved in. Sounds cute and fun right? Parts of this book absolutely are but it also tackles a lot within its pages- racism, homophobia, Islamaphobia. This wasn‘t the light read I was expecting but I ended up liking it all the more for it.
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pickA solid debut but longer than it needed to be. Amira was a strong, beautiful character that I loved from the first page. The snark and humour were just what I needed in a book during these weird times.
Read for about 20 minutes at lunch today and am now snuggled up with the pup to get an hour in before bed.
#EasterExtravaganza
pickVery cute, if highly improbable story, about a Muslim Indian-Canadian woman and a white barbershop quartet singing man who fall in love. Touches on all types of prejudices amongst all types of people and how we deal with “traditional” family members. Kept me company in an insomnia/migraine haze. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼1/2
We had a great time at the Eden Mills Writers‘ Festival last week - picked up a couple of books by authors we heard on panels and one from a local author with a booth on Publishers Way. Really interested the tagged book but looking forward to them all!
pickEngineering student Amira Khan has set one rule for herself: no dating until her grad-school thesis is done. Needing some peace and quiet, she heads back to her family‘s house in the suburbs to finish her project. But she arrives home to find out her grandmother rented their basement to…a barbershop quartet?! Honestly, as soon as these dudes started singing I was hooked. “The Chai Factor” is a charming story that really worked for me.
so-soI was hooked by the premise - ambitious grad student Amira returns to her grandmother‘s house to finish her thesis and finds she has to share the space with a barbershop quartet, one of whom she hate-likes - and I appreciated the frank discussions of race, culture, and discrimination. But the author tries to cram too much in and some plotlines end up feeling incomplete or ignored. 100 pages could have been cut and it would‘ve felt more cohesive.
pickI really liked this: Muslim woman engineer moves home to find a barber shop is renting the flat where she was hoping to finish her thesis and go back to her old job. She's got more challenges than her career, coping with prejudice and trying to work out if the cute singer is worth fighting for (as well as with).
The Chai Factor: A Novel | 
