Comments on: Review: Among the Ruins, Ausma Zehanat Khan

By: Katie @ Doing Dewey

Katie @ Doing Dewey — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 03:32:00 +0000

I really like books that incorporate real events too! I love nonfiction because I can learn new things and it’s an added bonus to be able to do that with fiction too 🙂

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 16:28:00 +0000

This series! I’m still not over the Unquiet Dead to be completely honest. I cannot remember another mystery that moved me so much. Well until this one – this had some really hard parts to read. This series is fantastic and I am really hopeful for her new book too! If you follow Ausma Zehanat Khan on facebook she’s been posting a lot of photos of the places Esa is at in this book. They are so incredibly beautiful.

By: Jenny @ Reading the End

Jenny @ Reading the End — Mon, 29 May 2017 18:17:00 +0000

In reply to Audra (Unabridged Chick). You're welcome!! Let me know if your book club ends up reading it! I want to hear their thoughts. :)

By: Jenny @ Reading the End

Jenny @ Reading the End — Mon, 29 May 2017 18:16:00 +0000

In reply to Aarto. I think the books are getting better and better as they go along -- and more broadly, as you say, I just really enjoy that she situates her book in international and historical contexts. I always learn stuff when I read!

By: Jenny @ Reading the End

Jenny @ Reading the End — Mon, 29 May 2017 18:15:00 +0000

In reply to Rachel. Isn't it gorgeous? There's another mosque in Shiraz that's got mosaics made out of mirror? Which is apparently even more dazzling.

By: JeanPing

JeanPing — Thu, 25 May 2017 15:20:00 +0000

In reply to Jeanne. Jeanne, you can go visit the grounds of the Mormon temple. They would like you to! There is a visitor's center and all, and they will happily tell you all about it, or you can just wander around. People do it all the time. You can't go inside the temple itself, although if they decide to close down and renovate, they'll have an open house before the re-dedication. All temples hold open houses for a few weeks before dedications; Oakland will soon be having one after a renovation.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 25 May 2017 13:14:00 +0000

Thanks for sharing your review! I enjoy books that incorporating world events into the mystery of the plot. Makes it that much more interesting. And that mosque is so beautiful!

By: Aarto

Aarto — Thu, 25 May 2017 01:00:00 +0000

My goodness, that mosque. Talk about using geometry and color to play off each other! Beautiful 🙂

I just read the first book in this series based on your review of the last one! I wasn’t blown away, really, but I also appreciate the author’s way of putting world events into the book. I too shall continue!

By: Audra (Unabridged Chick)

Audra (Unabridged Chick) — Wed, 24 May 2017 15:34:00 +0000

Omg, so happy to see this review — I curate my book club’s monthly choices, and our Oct will be dedicated to mysteries. Had been wanting some mysteries featuring POCs and not set in the US/UK. So thank you!

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Wed, 24 May 2017 14:17:00 +0000

I feel about that photo the way I feel about the ones I’ve seen of St Basil’s in Moscow and also the way I felt every day I drove around the Washington DC beltway and saw the white spires of the Mormon Temple in the distance (often with “Surrender Dorothy” spray-painted on the overpass in the foreground). People can make such beautiful things, and I’ll never get more than a glimpse of them from a distance because of the way people act towards each other, often because of their religion (only Mormons are allowed inside the grounds of the temple).