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Tag: The Bastard of Istanbul

My Fiction Books of 2020

On December 25, 2020December 14, 2020 By bookskepticIn Thoughts2 Comments

Merry Christmas!!! I hope you are having a wonderful time with your loved ones, even if due to circumstances known, it has to be done remotely. Weird year as it was it is finally time to sum things up and see the back of it! When the pandemic hit Europe I fell into a complete …

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The Bastard of Istanbul – Elif Shafak – Quotes

On December 23, 2020December 28, 2020 By bookskepticIn Quotes2 Comments

Rain is an agony here. In other parts of the world, a downpour will in all likelihood come as a boon for nearly everyone and everything – good for the crops, good for the fauna and the flora, and with an extra splash of romanticism, good for lovers. Not so in Istanbul though. Rain, for …

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The Bastard of Istanbul – Elif Shafak

On December 21, 2020December 28, 2020 By bookskepticIn Reviews3 Comments

I may spend the next few paragraphs regretting not knowing Elif Shafak’s prose earlier. But I won’t. Instead, I will be grateful for the spur of the moment decision back in August to sign up for three book subscription boxes. I got The Bastard of Istanbul from Books That Matter. This kind of gems was …

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