#CurrentlyReading

Without doubt @shafakelif is one of my most favourite Turkish writers. She has a way with words that enables readers to transcend the pages of a book and understand the lives of the characters and stories in a very real way. Also, Honour is considered one of her best works and this has long been on my TBR. What are you reading today?

Book: Honour
Author: @shafakelif

Paperback, 342 pages

First published February 1, 2011

Synopsis - An honor killing shatters and transforms the lives of Turkish immigrants in 1970s London

Internationally bestselling Turkish author Elif Shafak’s new novel is a dramatic tale of families, love, and misunderstandings that follows the destinies of twin sisters born in a Kurdish village. While Jamila stays to become a midwife, Pembe follows her Turkish husband, Adem, to London, where they hope to make new lives for themselves and their children.

In London, they face a choice: stay loyal to the old traditions or try their best to fit in. After Adem abandons his family, Iskender, the eldest son, must step in and become the one who will not let any shame come to the family name. And when Pembe begins a chaste affair with a man named Elias, Iskender will discover that you could love someone with all your heart and yet be ready to hurt them.

Just published to great acclaim in England, Honor is a powerful, gripping exploration of guilt and innocence, loyalty and betrayal, and the trials of the immigrant, as well as the love and heartbreak that too often tear families apart. ...

Build someone up. Put their insecurities to sleep. Remind them they’re worthy. Be a light in a too often dim world. 💛
- Unknown

Artwork: amalasrosa ...

#RememberingDumbledore #deathanniversary

Dumbledore was tired.
Three wars.
Three wars he’d had to live through.
Well almost.
His heart still ached when he thought about his first war. The one he ended by making the impossible decision to take down the love of his life.
That war was his fault, no matter what anyone said.
Gellert would never forgive him and he couldn’t accept him back even if he did.
He brought out Albus’ dark side. He was too persuasive. Too all consuming.
Albus knew he would always be weak as far as Gellert was concerned.
The second war was also his fault.
He had seen Tom Riddle for what he was.
He had seen through the boy’s agreeable demeanour but he was too blind to see what was right in front of him. The evil the boy was capable of.
He had always been wary of charisma since Gellert but the new good nature of second chances he had forced himself into since the first war had shut his tactical brain down and Voldemort had slipped through his fingers.
The third war was a bloody continuation of the second.
But this time was different.
He wasn’t going into this war as the cornerstone, the tipping point to either side.
Albus knew he would never see proper peace in his life.
He wasn’t built for peace.
His restlessness and dangerous brain had never allowed that even in the years between the wars he had never stopped being alert.
And Albus knew he was entering this final war as a sacrifice. A noble one, for the right side, it was a good death but he couldn’t go without leaving destruction behind him in the form of Harry.
Everything Albus touched seemed to fall into destruction, nothing more so than Harry Potter.
He knew he was leaving a void in the world, the war effort and in the knowledge of how to destroy Voldemort; his own weaknesses and fear hindering him from revealing the truth to the only boy who could put an end to the madness.
Albus knew that a victory by Harry, by everyone barred against Voldemort, would open a new world. A safer world that he had never known in his long life and would never know now.
As Dumbledore faced his final confrontation he couldn’t help but to think how nice it would be to rest.
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Perhaps you haven't been told this directly and it's about time you begin having access to this truth:

You are enough.

You have the right to be here and take up space.

You have the right to love and be loved.

You are not too much.

You have the right to speak your truth.

You have the right to explore your curiosities, establish your individuality and transform as often as necessary.

You are allowed to be.
Just be.

And you deserve the world and everything wholesome in it.

—Jova Ferreyra, a Gentle Reminder ...

Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge.

And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge.

You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready.

- Nayyirah Waheed ...

#CurrentlyReading
I love books written by Keigo Higashin- not only does his stories have interesting characters, he also manages to really write edge of the seat thrillers. The best part? He is unpredictable with his story, which is the prime requirements for any thriller writers. Do you live reading thrillers? Have you read this one? Who is your favourite thriller writer. And most importantly what are you reading today? Drop all your comments below.
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Book: Salvation of a Saint
Author: Keigo Higashino
Paperback, 386 pages
Hardcover, 330 pages
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In 2011, The Devotion of Suspect X was a hit with critics and readers alike. The first major English language publication from the most popular bestselling writer in Japan, it was acclaimed as “stunning,” “brilliant,” and “ingenious.” Now physics professor Manabu Yukawa—Detective Galileo—returns in a new case of impossible murder, where instincts clash with facts and theory with reality.

Yoshitaka, who was about to leave his marriage and his wife, is poisoned by arsenic-laced coffee and dies. His wife, Ayane, is the logical suspect—except that she was hundreds of miles away when he was murdered. The lead detective, Tokyo Police Detective Kusanagi, is immediately smitten with her and refuses to believe that she could have had anything to do with the crime. His assistant, Kaoru Utsumi, however, is convinced Ayane is guilty. While Utsumi’s instincts tell her one thing, the facts of the case are another matter. So she does what her boss has done for years when stymied—she calls upon Professor Manabu Yukawa.

But even the brilliant mind of Dr. Yukawa has trouble with this one, and he must somehow find a way to solve an impossible murder and capture a very real, very deadly murderer. Salvation for a Saint is Keigo Higashino at his mind-bending best, pitting emotion against fact in a beautifully plotted crime novel filled with twists and reverses that will astonish and surprise even the most attentive and jaded of readers. ...