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This book is about an American scientist who makes her way to Bangladesh‘s tide country to observe river dolphins. Throughout her trip, she observes the fauna, builds relationships with the locals, connects with religion and finally decides to stay. A nice story that, for my taste however, is a bit too slow to pick up and might have been told too often.

I enjoyed this right up until the end where it kind of lost me for a bit. But it was a fun ride so still a pick. The ending kind of rushes everything together and leaves a cliffhanger so I wouldn't exactly call it satisfying. Also my faves kind of got shafted which is never fun.

#BookReport
Didn't get around to finishing anything this week although I'm at about 82% in the tagged and 44% in Black Sun. I'm a little behind in ReadingWesteros still as well.

#WeeklyForecast
Goal this week is to finish my commute and my eye read and get as close to caught up as can be with ACoK.

There are no patrons because of frustrating road work conditions and all my current projects are finished for today so I‘m diving into this one in the hopes that a patron might show up to interrupt.

As a reward for surviving a very stressful book club moderation at work I‘m starting this today. Thankfully the book club isn‘t meeting in December because none of our patrons like genre fiction so the club picks are always something I find difficult to finish. #LibrarianProblems I guess lol

Enlightening upon ptsd responses and how they follow an 8-grader having been violently assaulted because of her orna while with an Iranian fried. It tried to explain her family's opposition to her wearing a hijab instead and desire to connect to Islam, yet that felt disconnected. I didn‘t understand why she went from orna to hijab. Same with families Bangladesh tragic history. Many portions confused me, history wise. Colorful emotions #inclusive

This was the first of 3 books I read on vacation, and I don't know how to describe it. I picked it up from the "librarian recommends" shelf, and the librarians haven't let me down yet. It takes place in an apocalyptic future and features the found family trope (one of my faves). 3.5⭐️

Samira and family are refugees from the burning and violence of their village in Burma, though they are not well accepted yet in Bangladesh. Against her parents‘ wishes, she learns to read, write, and surf with her brother‘s help; hoping to win prize $$ in a surf contest. Beautifully written novel in verse 🌊

#Pantone2023
#20in4Readathon Day 2
#RushAThon Day 26

I just discovered Nabela Noor Martin and Nabi H. Ali. Their book, Beautifully Me, is about a little girl suddenly noticing negative body image comments and internalizing them. #Bangladeshi #muslim #pocketsofpeace