Cover of There are rivers in the sky by Elif Shafak. Cover is a big blue tear.
I finished 'There are rivers in the sky' by #ElifShafak yesterday and I really liked it.
It is about a poor boy born in London 1850s, a hydrologist in 2018 and a Yazidi girl near Tigris river in 2014
It seems Appropriate that at the end, I did shed a few tears
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Quatre livres en anglais : Joan Didion, Notes to John ; Elif Shafak, The Architect's Apprentice ; William S. Burroughs, Queer ; James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room © #VendrediLecture 20260327 Gilles Denizot
#VendrediLecture 📚️ Bon, je me suis offert quelques livres… Bonne lecture, le monde ! #JoanDidion #ElifShafak #WilliamBurroughs #JamesBaldwin
Cover of the UK edition of ‘There Are Rivers in the Sky’ by Elif Shafak. A blue raindrop is the central image.
Sometimes, you know a book will stay with you for life. Just … wonderful.
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Book cover in blue and cream by Elif Shafak
Book cover with orange text on cream -Station Eleven
Book cover with a rag doll with blue eyes The Bluest Eye
Book cover in white with gold lettering - the Living Mountain
Happy #InternationalWomensDay !
Here are a few of my favourite books by women writers, many others have thrilled and inspired me to write.
There Are Rivers In The Sky #ElifShafak Station Eleven @emilymandel.bsky.social The Bluest Eye #ToniMorrison The Living Mountain #NanShepherd
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🌧️ Dive into 'There Are Rivers in the Sky' by Elif Shafak, a beautiful tale of water and connection. 💧✨ Read more here: innovirtuoso.com/literature/exploring-the... #ElifShafak #Literature #WaterWisdom
My left hand holds up a hardcover library book. It is “The Island of Missing Trees” by Elif Shafak. The book cover is Sky blue with a cut branch of a fig tree taking up the front. Butterflies and a bird are arranged on and around it and a fig hands from the cut branch. I’m holding the book up in the drivers side corner of my truck so you see black car interior, snowy wet windows, and city buildings stretching out behind the book.
Car reading today.
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From the library stack, one I missed in 2019,
#elifshafak backlist
10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world 💙📚
Post death, Leila's life replays in sensory detail in 10 mins 38 secs, introducing us to her closest friends, witnessing events that shaped her.
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Four books borrowed from the library The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell Intermezzo by Sally Rooney 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak You Are Here by David Nicholls
I joined a small library, great for backlisted books of popular fiction.
I borrowed 4 over the festive season, I read two in Dec and 2 this week because unlike everything else on my shelf, these all have deadlines!
Enjoyed them all.
I will be borrowing more #ElifShafak & #MaggieOFarrell
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1. In 10 minutes after death, a woman shares sensory flashbacks of her life, aromas, friends, family memories, it all floods back and we meet the 5.
2. The 5 friends gather to decide how to give recognition to the friend that brought them together.
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Und als tiefere Antwort, suche nach einer Antwort, indem du " #Die40GeheimnissederLiebe' von #ElifShafak liest ( daraus sind die Regeln ) ...
More than sea and sand starts HERE #neşetertaş #neşetertaştürküleri #cankazaz #müslümgürses #ElifShafak
ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: #TheArchitectsApprentice by #ElifShafak. A lovely look at 16th century Istanbul with a touch of magical realism.
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Because if there’s one thing this book does very well is exemplify the difference between religion and spirituality, between dogma and experience.
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WIN: Book #1. There Are Rivers In The Sky by Elif Shafak. Published by Penguin. Book #2. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney. Published by Faber. Book #3. All The Colours Of The Dark by Chris Whitaker. Published by @OrionPublishingGroup. Book #4. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. Published by Piatkus.
#WIN books by #ElifShafak #SallyRooney #ChrisWhitaker & #RebeccaYarros
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crop up. Open up your hearts, and your minds to the beautiful parts of the world to which you have no knowlegde or experience bar what is force-fed to you via a distorted lens of bigotry in mainstream press and media outlets. #literaryexcellency #writer #elifshafak 5/n
In all honesty, #ElifShafak is one of our greatest writers, thinkers, academics and creative industry stalwart of our current times. I was truly in awe of her passion at the talk given recently at Wimbledon BookFest. The clarity in her words, the confidence with which she was able to speak to 1/n
Finished There Are Rivers in the Sky by #ElifShafak last month and let me tell you - haven’t been so hooked that I couldn’t even put it in the car by the end of a book for so long. Harrowing. Brilliant. Thought-provoking. Fascinating. Incredibly well-researched. Loved it.
BOOK REVIEW: #TheArchitectsApprentice by #ElifShafak. A lovely look at 16th century Istanbul with a touch of magical realism.
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This came highly recommended- but half way in I gave it up: life is too short to read books I’m not enjoying 5/10 #ElifShafak #ThereAreRiversintheSky
Finished these two.
This is my third Elif Shafak book - most definitely the one I liked most.
It’ll take me time to process Arundhati Roy’s complicated, difficult, uncomfortable book.
That’s all I’ll say for now.
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Not paying any streaming platform even more money - nope - so Mother Mary will just have to wait till next month.
In the meantime, there’s this.
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Agonising over which book to start next is one of the greatest pleasures of life.
Is it not?
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There Are Rivers In The Sky. Just finished it. A true, fantastic book. 5/5 🌟
Difficult to summerize 📖. Every comma and sentence is worth reading.
Three story lines in one. Confronting, beautiful, realistic... I learned from this book.
Recommended ❣️
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My August 2025 books read. The best of these: #StoneBlind by #NatalieHaynes; and #OnCall by #AnthonyFauciMD, revealing a dedicated public servant; #TheArchitectsApprentice by #ElifShafak, rags to riches historical fiction set in Istanbul in the 16th century.
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.@leaypi.bsky.social talks to #ElifShafak about writing in the age of demagogues. The Albanian author of #Free and Turkish novelist discuss the rise of populism, censorship – & how today’s conflicts all come from the unresolved trauma of the past www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a... 📚
#LastWords by #RichardHolloway publishes today. In his final book he reflects deeply on his life and his journey towards becoming true to himself.
'Reading Holloway is like taking a long walk in the countryside' #ElifShafak
Find out more: bit.ly/4oNpxMq
Summer Books Update:
Finished ‘The Bastard of Istanbul’ by #ElifShafak. On to ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ by #AnthonyDoerr.
Of the six Shafak novels I have just read, this is the one I loved the least. Still have ‘The Flea Palace’ & ‘Honor’ to go and expect to love them.
#AmReading #BookSky #EastCoastKin
Front cover of There Are Rivers In The Sky by Elif Shafak, featuring a large blue drop of water surrounded by intricate blue and white patterns.
Loving my current read, There Are Rivers In The Sky by Elif Shafak. Such beautiful writing and clever connections between the three storylines.
#books #amreading #ThereAreRiversInTheSky #ElifShafak #historicalfiction ⏳️📚 #booksky 💙📚
