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Samah

Samah

"Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it."
-Mark Twain
"I am no fun at all. In fact, I am anti-fun. Not as in anti-violence, but as in anti-matter. I am not so much against fun - although I suppose I kind of am - as I am the direct opposite of fun. I... more »
  • Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, Canada
  • member since February 26 2007

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  • hina-zee

    hina-zee says

    i looooooooved "the glass castle" and, for once, it was someone other than you who recommended it (but with a similar first name and the same initial for the last) --- samia mushtaq (nadia's sis-in-law)! have you read it?

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • nadia

    nadia says

    there's a "secret diaries of charlotte bronte" and a "lost memoirs of jane austen" -- which did you read? your title on the shelf is all mixed up.

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • NK

    NK says

    LOL. well going by what anushe related, i think you felt my presence more than enough eh! haha. please don't feel sorry for me... this is how i stumble through life... one misstep at a time. i was in sacramento w/ my parents for a family wedding and now i'm in abu dhabi... for life.... hahaha

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • NK

    NK says

    mightY

    (it's not my fault. anushe makes fun of me.)

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • NK

    NK says

    i feel such a great sense of pleasure saying i wasn't bowled over by the house at riverton just b/c the might samah recommended it. i know, i'm a sick sick girl.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • NK

    NK says

    ok why did i spare him an opinion?!? why why why!!!!! i bitterly regret that line.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • NK

    NK says

    i have guilty reading pleasures--i read (past tense) dan brown. i don't think he's great, but i was entertained. i don't mind mindless entertainment sometimes. i cut my own hair. my hair is showing. i am quite short and stout in person. i sometimes don't know what i'm saying but my mouth keeps moving. nobody knows my brain is screaming its head off. i am really not that witty in person. i... um... giggle randomly. i also have a nervous tick. jk the last one was a lie. oh and i'm really really loud sometimes. and when it's combined with my high-pitched squeals, i can come off rather annoying. so my sister says. so i think i covered my major flaws/shortcomings. this way when we finally meet, you won't be let down. i. am. so. nervous. friday=meeting samah day. omg now i'm getting hives...

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • nadia

    nadia says

    so we have our own samah literary society going here in LA. zameera is reading the help, masood started sweetness at the bottom of the pie, samia is reading guernsey, and i'm reading the forgotten garden. what is this strange influence you wield over us, woman?

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • NK

    NK says

    btw i do love your loyalty to this site when the others cut and ran. :p

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • NK

    NK says

    hahaha skinflint? i love it when you talk duhty. the writing is going... my thesis is due in a week. it's supposed to be a rough rough draft of my manuscript. it's rough alright. there are passages i feel good about and passages i can't believe i've written... but what i'll have when this is all over is part of my first novel's rough rough rough rough first draft. i have the rest of my life (well okay hopefully not that long) to edit edit edit and edit... but i have a feeling the novel is going to be very different in scope and plot than what it is now. btw, i did my first reading this past friday... a passage of "the novel" i feel okay saying this on your page on this site... haha. i can't find a book that my mind will rest enough to enjoy reading... what's fun but literary still? something like i capture the castle? i need something that will lift my drowning spirits...

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • nadia

    nadia says

    Uh oh. I remember reading about a reference to chocolate pie and now you tell me not to be eating when I get to the Terrible Awful. I hope it's not what I'm thinking...

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • nadia

    nadia says

    samah, have u checked out kate morton's new novel, The Forgotten Garden? i enjoyed House at Riverton so i was wondering how this one is. btw, i can hardly put down The Help. i'm itching to find out about the Terrible Awful.

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • saudah

    saudah says

    haha, you're so funny :) I will insha'Allah get the book the next time I take a trip to the library.
    so when you coming to michigan?

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • NK

    NK says

    ello love! both of us did and we both loved it. do recommend it. :D

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • saudah

    saudah says

    I just finished reading "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society." Thank you, thank you, thank you for recommending it! It was such a charming book. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me reflect on life. Does the author have other books and have you read any of them?

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • NK

    NK says

    a small trips. yes. i am a writer. hmph.

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • NK

    NK says

    ok actually i was in england and london was a small trips here and there. mostly in cambridge, studying. can i just tell you that cambridge is the most adorable (ahhh, here's a good place to insert the adjective) and quaint little town that i just fell in love with. sigh. it was nothing short of amazing to go there w/ a bunch of writers and people who slowly became some of my closest and dearest friends in a place like cambridge and just write and write and write. also gallivanted through europe like a very broke student and a poor writer, but that's probably the best way to see europe... on foot. :) but waitaminute, this isn't about my vacations... this is about books. i went to this huge bookfair recently in chicago and bought a ton of books by worldpress who prints books translated from other languages--particularly in the middle east. will start going through them at some point, but right now i need something sure-fire good and yes uplifting. no heavy sadness for me right now.

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • NK

    NK says

    hahaha. yayyy we're back on shelfari. so all it really takes is a note eh. plot notes, i'm working on it myself. will let you know as soon as the book's written. it's amazing b/c i had this plot that i found so weak and lame and unoriginal though the second layer of the story, the real story was much better, but now i changed locations and set it against a political backdrop, and voila--i have a bloody brilliant plot line. there's an ad on my right to click for a free copy of jumple pie--the story of two women, a friendship and a pie. yeah, very intriguing. but it *is free... and i *am* desi... so... hmmm. brb.

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • NK

    NK says

    adorable? as in... i am adorable?

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • NK

    NK says

    how sad. we used to banter on here. where is everyone. on fb? take me away from that vile site that makes voyeurs out of all of us. eeks. so, the last note i wrote to you was of me on my way to london. what an amazing journey i had... in more ways than one. much has changed yet still very much the same. my reading is very slow and almost non-existent, but my writing is coming along. i found my plot yesterday and i think i nearly died i was so excited. anyhow, give me a good read... something that's going to blow my senses away and not b/c it's mind-numbingly dull. please? :D

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )


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