This book oscillates between two worlds, the real one and a dream one. Both are equally vivid. It actually bears some resemblance to The Original Dream that I read earlier this year. And to be quite honest, neither one of these novels was really my cup of tea.
22. The Djinn Falls in Love edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin
I have long had a fascination about djinn/jinn. I had been working on the misapprehension that jinn were genie. But it is not so. The vast majority of my Muslim students incorrectly believe that jinn are what we call ghosts. Again not so. Through conversations with three of my beloved students (Ghassan, Faisal, and Abdulrahman), I learned gobs and gobs about jinn, but this did not slake my curiosity.
23. Best of All Worlds by Karen Lord
I don't know how this book made it into my consciousness, but it is really good! I really like the story and the world-building she did. And Karen Lord introduced me to a Ray Bradbury short story I'd never read before, so all around a wonderful experience! Plus- she's from Barbados and I've never read any Barbadian Science Fiction before!
24. Tamsin by Peter Beagle
I love The Last Unicorn, so I saw that Peter Beagle had written a ghost story with cats? Oh, I was all over that!!At first I was a little nervous because I didn't like the narrative choice he was making. But by the end of the first chapter I was hooked, and then somewhere early on I actually really liked his narrative choices. With that said, this is definitely exactly my kind of ghost story and my kind of cat story! Doesn't hurt that the cat in the story looks like my little baby, Phryne (named after Miss Phryne Fisher herself!).
25. 100 Best-Loved Poems edited by
I was interested in finding some new poems, but I wanted to try a collection of poems. This one sounded promising! Best-loved! I did find some new ones that I like- like this Emily Dickinson one.
