Glade Game - May 7 & 8, 2019

May 7:

* water goal met

* new underdress cut out.

* I made a hat!

* robin babies are getting big.

May 8:

* water goal met

* new underdress almost done (need to hem bottom and sleeves and top-stitch facing)

* loving the physical book that I am currently reading. Giggling throughout it.'

* both Grimmy and Lily Rose gave me snuggles and kisses.

2019 reading challenge: a book involving a wedding

First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story by Huda Al-Marashi

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


2.5 stars (I rounded up)

Hulda is an first generation American born girl from an Iraqi family who are fairly orthodox in their Islamic faith. While fairly liberal in many aspects of life, she is raise to believe that when it comes to love, romance and the interaction of the genders, there are very strict rules.

She was promised to Hadi since the age of 6. That's just the way it was. But that didn't stop her from having dreams of him sweeping her off her feet, courting her, doing the storybook proposal, the glamorous American Movies wedding. That is not what she got and she struggled with reconciling her dreams and her reality.

All in all, while there was a lot of things I could write off about this book as cultural differences, I hate to say it, in the end I found Hulda a spoiled, selfish, self-centered brat. She constantly bickered, picked on and insulted Hadi. She blamed him for all the things wrong in her life because... SHE NEVER SAID WHAT SHE WANTED. Apparently hew as just supposed to read her mind. Not to mention she almost never stopped to look at things from his point of view. It was always her, her her. I want, I need, I should have...

Throughout a good 60% of the book I just wanted to reach into the audiobook and slap the daylights out of her and say "do you hear yourself and how selfishly spoiled you sound?"

Can't say I'd recommend this book.



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