Book Club

Any Proust fan here?

Salam,

What are you guys currently reading?
Could you please share your books with a short blurb?

I am currently reading, "Dr Jekyll Mr. Hyde".
The story follows, a scientist, who concocts a potion to segregate good evil side of his personality.

Need suggestions for a good book!

What if you had a pencil that could draw anything your heart desired? ✏️✨

Lily and the Magical Pencil is a heartwarming debut by 5th-grader Fatima Shoaib. It’s a beautiful, imaginative reminder for all of us that the greatest magic is found in being selfless. Huge congratulations to our young writer on this incredible accomplishment! 💖📖

Link
https://oviology1.wixsite.com/causeriepublishers/public-archive/lily-and-the-magical-pencil

" Chemistry may bring two people together, but only shared values can keep them together "

From the book Can I ask you a question?
By _ Abdiwahab Abdisalam_

💙 الحمدلله
Astaghfiru'Allah 🤍

# reading 📚

Have you ever read the same sentence three times...
...only to realize your eyes were moving, but your mind was somewhere else?
I wonder how often we do that outside of books.
How often we listen without hearing.
How often we look without seeing.
How often we rush through ordinary moments, only to realize later that they were quietly becoming memories.
Perhaps reading teaches us more than words.
Perhaps it teaches us to be present.
To slow down enough for a sentence to settle.
For a conversation to matter.
For a sunrise to be noticed.
For a heart to be heard.
Maybe the greatest readers are not the ones who finish the most books.
Maybe they are the ones who learn not to hurry through life.

I made the comment below on a post mocking the concept of unpaid labour. For anyone interested in reading a critique of national accounting, I recommend the book "If Women Counted" by Marilyn Waring.

When most women speak about unpaid labour, it is not with the goal of being transactional but to draw attention to the fact that the domestic tasks that we typically take on also have economic value (some estimates place this at over 40% of GDP if paid at minimum wage). We live in a capitalist economic system that only measures market transactions so this unpaid domestic labour is not valued and some see the paycheck as the only financial contribution to a household. In a healthy marriage both spouses would recognise and value one another's labour, both paid and unpaid.

Try to learn Gratitude from Kahlil Gibran, we don't pray in our distress and in our need, but it would that we might pray also in the fullness of our joy and in our days of abundance.

https://go.obsn.media/a-m1n
HE THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ANOTHER ROUTINE PATROL...
Until one encounter changed his life forever.
What happened during the second clocking duty remains a mystery one that still haunts him every single night. Read the terrifying events that unfolded.

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