Good read and good night!
Bookworm: This cutie was caught reading Pride and Prejudice. Such class!
My name is Lisa al-Ehe and I’m a readaholic. Not really, I suck at reading… Maybe more of an upcoming bibliophile, in that I just love to buy every book I’m interested in but I may not necessarily read them immediately… or ever :-/. Sigh. I’m always mediocre in everything. Jack of all trades, master of none (except maybe Literati where I really kick a$$ - *nudge* if you wanna play).
Anyway, the point is I joined Good Reads after reading Sunni Sister. And I love it! So please join, add me (username in previous para), and let’s book brag! Leave a comment here so I’ll know to approve your add.
Something else I wanted to mention. If you read the comment I made on Sunni Sister’s post, turns out Akismet has been devouring my comments in more places than I thought. So I’d like to officially thank brother Abu Ilyas for his effort in clearing muslimpad.com from Akismet’s hitlist. I believe it’d affected those of you on MuslimPad too. So on behalf of fellow MP-ers, jazakallahu khair, Abu Ilyas. *hÄt (Ån vÅwÄ“l) tÃp*
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Salaam ‘Alaikum
See, when you said that, I had a feeling it was Akismet!! Alhamdulillah someone was able to fix it.
I’ve never been much good at animal anatomy but I think if you look really closely underneath that worm you can just make out a but.
Umm Zaid, wa ‘alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. I’d left a comment regarding this but the browser conked out just as I hit “submit”! Anyway, yep, alhamdulillah, now I can post more novel-length comments all around! Muahaha.
Abu Ilyas, haha, right. Now where is your Good Reads account, mister?
Eh I just realised how I should’ve put it as Good night, and good read! You know, play on Good Night, And Good Luck. Oh well.
I joined : )
“Al-Qadi ‘Ali ibn Abdul Aziz al-Jurjani said in his couplets: “I never tasted the sweetness of life until, I became a companion of home and book, there is nothing more honourable than knowledge, so I seek in no other an associate, truly the only degradation is in mixing with people, therefore leave them and live nobly and stately.†“
Yeah, I thought about it and must confess to having clicked through your (and some of your friends’) account[s].
I kind of go through phases of not reading, or not finishing, books and then suddenly get back into them again and so I’m not sure how I’d be at maintaining any list. Although I did just finish Moazzem’s book which I see you’re reading and I give it a big thumbs up (although a big thumbs down to the US and UK).
Plus Saudi kind of sucks when it comes to English reading material. The Islamic books seem to be exclusively published by Dar-us-Salam (I like some of their publications but I like variety too) and the other English books (current affairs, comedy, etc) are often subject to scrutiny and hopeless delays in availability.
Unless of course you’re into romance novels which seem to fill large sections of the shops I’ve wandered around, but I guess that is a result of the culturally stupidly high mahr demands in this country and the resultant extreme difficulty for the youth wanting to marry.
*snicker*
Abu Ilyas, ahh, sounds like me heh. But I dunno, I somehow thought maybe with this site, I could be moved to read more. Insha Allah. I’ve even created an “abandoned” shelf to note those books that I left without finishing… And a lot of my books are in the “to-read” list. So what I’m trying to say is, try anyway! I love seeing what others are reading. I know some of my friends read well, but I didn’t know the extent for some of them until now. So it’s really cool.
Up to you eh. *holds knife to back*
I kid.
travellaar, uhh, I’m guessing that’s a snicker of content without a good reads account? I’ll get to you! Speaking of snicker, I do love Snickers Cruncher.
As-salaamu `alaykum wa rahmaullaah,
I joined :)
I joined too! I don’t read any more. I used to. Lots. Doing English Lit A’levels kinda took out the fun in reading!
UmmM, wa ‘alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Yay! I’ve added you, sis. Look forward to seeing your reads. Gowan then! In the meantime, I shall check out your notes from Eats, Shoots and Leaves! :)
Witness, woohoo! Funny you should mention Lit classes lol. I would’ve thought such classes makes you *want* to read more. Anyhew, nice reading your reads. ;)
Salam Alaikom sister,
I just happened upon your blog, and I must say I’m glad I did!
It’s a joy to read, I like your writing style:)
May Allah bless your work:)
Oh and I totally relate to the “buying books I find interesting but not necessarily reading them”. I’m the same. *chuckle*
Eeks, I forgot to reply to Niqaabis, jazakillahu khair for the lovely quote, sis! But eh I did it over MSN I guess. :P
mar_yoom, wa ‘alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Jazakillahu khair for your kind words! And that you can relate! Lol… I have to stop buying and start reading what I already have. Insha Allah. :)