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books read in 2023: hamra & the jungle of memories
hamra, a young girl in malaysia, must help a tiger return to his human form in this beautiful retelling of little red riding hood.
#bookedit#hamra and the jungle of memories#hanna alkaf#red riding hood#little red riding hood#photoshop hard
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Fave Five: Queer MG/YA Set at Magic School
Gallowgate by K.R. Alexander (MG)
It Ends in Fire by Andrew Shvarts (YA)
Scholars and Sorcery series by Eleanor Beresford (YA)
A Hundred Vicious Turns by Lee Paige O’Brien (YA)
My Name is Magic by Xan van Rooyen (YA)
Bonus: These are all prose novels, but for a YA graphic novel set at a magical culinary school, check out Basil and Oregano by Melissa Capriglione
Double Bonus: The anthology The…
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#A Hundred Vicious Turns#Andrew Shvarts#Basil and Oregano#Eleanor Beresford#Gallowgate#Hanna Alkaf#It Ends in Fire#K.R. Alexander#Lee Paige O&039;Brien#Margaret Owen#Melissa Capriglione#My Name is Magic#The Grimoire of Grave Fates#Xan van Rooyen
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i told yall i'd do art for them, now look at my post guys /j /silly
#✨scribbled paper'd#the girl and the ghost#hanna alkaf#uhhh i don't really have much to say now that i've calmed down lmao#i would promote yall to read the book but i'm not sure where bdjsbd#but still good book is good book 10/10 would possibly read again
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The Grimoire of Grave Fates by Hanna Alkaf & Margaret Owen
Crack open your spell book and enter the world of the illustrious Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary. There's been a murder on campus, and it's up to the students of Galileo to solve it. Follow 18 authors and 18 students as they puzzle out the clues and find the guilty party.
Professor of Magical History Septimius Dropwort has just been murdered, and now everyone at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary is a suspect.
A prestigious school for young magicians, the Galileo Academy has recently undergone a comprehensive overhaul, reinventing itself as a roaming academy in which students of all cultures and identities are celebrated. In this new Galileo, every pupil is welcome—but there are some who aren't so happy with the recent changes. That includes everyone's least favorite professor, Septimius Dropwort, a stodgy old man known for his harsh rules and harsher punishments. But when the professor's body is discovered on school grounds with a mysterious note clenched in his lifeless hand, the Academy's students must solve the murder themselves, because everyone's a suspect.
Told from more than a dozen alternating and diverse perspectives, The Grimoire of Grave Fates follows Galileo's best and brightest young magicians as they race to discover the truth behind Dropwort's mysterious death. Each one of them is confident that only they have the skills needed to unravel the web of secrets hidden within Galileo's halls. But they're about to discover that even for straight-A students, magic doesn't always play by the rules. . . .
Contributors include: Cam Montgomery, Darcie Little Badger, Hafsah Faizal, Jessica Lewis, Julian Winters, Karuna Riazi, Kat Cho, Kayla Whaley, Kwame Mbalia, L. L. McKinney, Marieke Nijkamp, Mason Deaver, Natasha Díaz, Preeti Chhibber, Randy Ribay, Tehlor Kay Mejia, Victoria Lee, and Yamile Saied Méndez
#the grimoire of grave fates#hanna alkaf#margaret owen#nonbinary#transmasc#trans book of the day#trans books#queer books#booklr#bookblr
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I got myself a copy of The Girl And The Ghost! i love this book
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Title: Queen of the Tiles | Author: Hanna Alkaf | Publisher: Simon Schuster Books (2022)
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Characters on this book are unhinged, I love them
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Maybe that was what she was. The durian of friends. Maybe people would learn to like her one day. Maybe she just had to meet the right ones.
The Girl and The Ghost // Hanna Alkaf
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Y’all don’t appreciate Hanna Alkhaf enough
If you don’t know, Hanna Alkhaf is the author of The Weight of Our Sky, Queen of the Tiles, and more.
She is Muslim, Malaysian, and an outstanding author. I’ve only read The Weight of Our Sky and it was sensational.
The Weight of our Sky is historical fiction and takes place in 1969, during Malaysia’s race riots. The main character has OCD and her intrusive thoughts are all about her mother, who goes missing during the riots. While I cannot comment on the OCD or Malay rep, let me just say the Muslim rep was amazing. I don’t know how to hide spoilers on tumblr so I won’t write about it here, but I personally view Hanna Alkhafs work as revolutionary.
After all, she was the first author I’ve ever seen make the triggers very clear. The trigger warnings she included were not some tiny little fine print that would be very easy to accidentally skip. No, it was clear right from the get-go that The Weight of Our Sky is a triggering novel that not everyone can/should read.
Not only that, there were some minor controversies with her middle grade novel, The Girl and The Ghost. In the arcs she accidentally used wording similar to that abusers usually use. Author Aisha Saeed pointed it out and instead of defending herself or getting upset, Hanna Alkhaf fixed the issue and apologized. WHEN SHE DID SOMETHING WRONG SHE FIXED THE ISSUE AND APOLOGIZED!
She deserves all of the love. Obsessed with her.
#booklr#books#ya books#book recommendations#we need diverse books#book quotes#the weight of our sky#hanna alkaf#the girl and the ghost#queen of the tiles#muslim authors#Malaysian authors#Muslim rep
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#arc review#arc reviewer#arc reader#book review#book blog#book reviewer#book blogger#new release#new release book#new book release#new book#netgalley#random house childrens#delacorte press#margaret owen#hanna alkaf#the grimoire of grave fates#amateur sleuths#disability representation#fantasy#gothic#boarding school#lgbtq fiction#lgbtq romance#mystery#paranormal fantasy#standalone novel#ya fantasy#ya fiction#ya mystery
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This is a great book for diverse reads, and I really loved the representation in this. A school of magic, a murder, and each story is a different classmate finding clues!
I enjoyed this. It's a bit young YA, if you know what I mean? So, I had a harder time connecting with every character. But overall, I think this concept is so unique, and I really feel like it has been executed well.
It's a fun book to pick up and read through!
Out June 6, 2023!
Thank you, Netgalley and Publisher, for this Arc!
#book#bookish#books#bookworm#book review#currently reading#read#bookblogger#reading#fantasy#ya fantasy#ya books#short stories#lgbtq books#lgbtq+#The Grimoire of Grave Fates#Hanna Alkaf#margaret owen#netgalley
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And we head toward the car, ready for the long journey home.
Hanna Alkaf, from Queen of the Tiles
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Tiny Book Review: The Grimoire of Grave Fates, Hanna Alkaf & Margaret Owen ed.
I'm like, 1/10th of the way through this and I'm just blown away by the whole concept and execution. I want 100 more collab books like this its amazing.
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Leonardo Santamaria’s illustrated book cover for Hanna Alkaf’s Queen of the Tiles.
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Book Review - The Weight of Our Sky (🇲🇾 Malaysia)
[image 1: book cover; image 2: map of Malaysia; image 3: aftermath of riots, Kuala Lumpur, 1969 source: Getty]
YA World Challenge book for 🇲🇾 Malaysia
The Weight of our Sky
Author: Hanna Alkaf
A Malay girl searches for her mother while battling OCD, finding help from a Chinese family in the middle of violent and tragic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur.
Review
This book was amazing and kept me on the edge of my seat to the end. I felt that the author’s depiction of Melati’s OCD “djinn” was very real and excellently done. At times during the book I could really feel her anxiety myself. The writing is gripping and really pulls you in. Melati’s OCD is numbers, counting, and imagining her mother’s death. People with anxiety or OCD might find the descriptiveness of her condition triggering - it is very much there the whole book.
Melati, despite being Malay, is rescued by a Chinese woman when riots break out following an election and Chinese and Malays starting murdering each other in the streets. She finds refuge in the Chinese family’s home, guilty over leaving her friend behind and anxious to find her mother. She finds a friendship with Vincent, one of the two sons of the family, who helps her plans to look for her mother.
One thing about this book is that it does not favor one ‘side’, but rather shows the complexity of prejudice and the shortsightedness and error of those both Chinese & Malay (and the Indians caught between). It shows how people, even family we love like Vincent’s brother, can get caught up in their hate when we follow the mob, a truth that is still very relevant today. But it’s also about a girl caught up in an unfortunate event and finding the strength to conquer her inner demons.
I appreciated this book for a look at a piece of history I had never heard of, along with some in-depth characters and fast-paced story.
Other reps: #mental health (OCD) #no romance
Genres: #historical, 20th century
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5 stars
Read it at: Bookshop.org | Scribd | Amazon
#book review#malaysia#ya world challenge#ya books#the weight of our sky#hanna alkaf#historical fiction#diverse books#historical 20th century#disaster#mental health#ocd#no romance#southeast asia#asia
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2023 reads / storygraph
Hamra and the Jungle of Memories
middle grade fantasy, red riding hood reimagining
a girl frustrated to be taking care of her nagging grandparents while her parents are away in the city during the pandemic, who recklessly goes out into the forest and ignores the rules, taking a jambu fruit without asking
a weretiger demands payment for her crimes, and the two of them and her best friend go on a magical quest to set things right
#Hamra and the Jungle of Memories#hanna alkaf#aroaessidhe 2023 reads#I loved this so much!!!!!!! just as good as the girl and the ghost#great characters and personalities and magical creatures#made me cry. also.#big tiger friend :)#this book starts on the MCs birthday and I also started listening to it on my bday haha#I like a kinda mean and hot-headed 13yo MC also :)#'even in the world of faeries cops ask for bribes' hjgfsdkg#and... yes I thought I recognised the art style; the cover is by deb jj lee. so good#oh also. when she's like to her grandparents i have to go on a quest with a monster!!! and they're like:#oh sure be safe here's some snacks make sure you bring my tupperware lids back!!!
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