Miracle World.. ~ Never ever.. BORING world =)

17th|April|2010 7:34 PM

Guess what? I went to Swarovski - Wafi mall, & got the Lullaby collection along with the CHESHIRE CAT + THE TEA PARTY White RABBIT pendant

yeeeppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..

& then I went to Borders - Mirdif City Center, & ended up buying 5 new books ^_^

No new books for now............. a promise.

15th|April|2010 11:36 PM

Well.. well.. Today I promised myself to have it all!

I did not go for work...... I was feeling a bit tired.
I decided to hang out with a friend though. Assoom is a very dear friend :) until now, I did not find someone with such a heart... We had lunch at Wafi Gourmet Restaurant.. my food was hot and yummy... I ordered hummus with meat and pine seeds + shish barak with vermicelli rice + fattoush. My drink was fresh orange juice.. & after that we went to a coffee shop to chit chat and have some sweets :) I craved a very tasty ice cream called Monte Cristo which made me feel like I was in paradise.

Once I reached home, I delved my face into the book and decided to finish reading the last 200 pages no matter what!

I loved the title...... it really attracted me. The letter NOON in Arabic is very tempting. and when it is written in Kufi font, it really gives a more
tempting look. It is also the beginning of a whole sura in the holy quraan...

BUT, in the story NOON means something else.
another thing which made me buy the book was that I knew it won the Kafafis Award.

In the 21st century in Egypt, the narrator Hathor, the Egyptian goddess of love, music, motherhood, and joy, is back to narrate the story of 4 friends Sara, Dunya, Noura, & Hussam, who are suffering from some aspects in life, and trying to find solutions by answering the questions which come from within. Questions such as "Who am I? Do I love what I am doing? Does this seem to be the love I've always pursued?" Hathor is trying to give hints to the friends.. she plays the role of their echoes and tries to guide them to reach the righteous path!!

I did not like the style at all, for it is extremely strained! and if you don't want to go through some explicit contents, then don't even try to look into it. I also did not like the translation of English, Indian, and other poems to Arabic. it was too stacky.. it lost its taste!

the story is unusual, but not beautiful and so unrealistic.... and a bit heavy on religion.. didn't touch my heart at alllllllll, and made me think that the author is extremely blunt.

The author leaves us with an open ending, which is okay, but it makes me feel how fragmented the novel is, and how the author couldn't come up with something more creative. If she struggles to put a proper ending, how does she want the reader to grasp the concept of a goddess being able to solve our problems in this century...

eeew I really didn't like the idea of it all.

it is also a very slow read.

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What do you think of this Lullaby collection from Swarovski? I loved it.

My friend is fond of this Lullaby collection :) I loved it, but I wanted Alice collection especially the Cheshire cat, but I couldn't find it... it was out of stock!