Uhhh... this didn't really go well. It didn't go well at all. I know I had a very very ambitious reading list, but I still thought I'd get through at least half of the books. Or even 4 of them, considering two are under a 100 pages...
This is a lot harder than it looks, I really don't know how booktubers did all the reading they did AND made videos... hats off, honestly.
Like I said, my list was insanely ambitious so I only read one book (yes - ONE BOOK) and some from two other books.
I managed to finish the whole of The Bamboo Stalk. It took me a little over two days and that's when I knew that I chose too many and too long books for one week.
Anyways, I read The Bamboo Stalk in Arabic based on friends' recommendations. The book is about Jose who is born to a Philippine maid and a Kuwaiti father where she work for his family. The story is mainly about him coping with growing up with this dual nationality. His parents secretly got married because Kuwaiti social standards would not allow his father to marry a maid. After she was noticeably pregnant, his mother was forced to fly back home. His father paid her childcare though, and wrote to her. However, the Gulf war commenced and he left for war. Nothing is heard from him for over a decade. Eventually, Jose flies to Kuwait as a young man. He thought that in that country he'd be able to find his feet rather than the Philippines, where he felt like an outcast and money was scarce. Or so he thought.
That is the main gist of the story. I thought it started out strong and promising. Then towards the middle it was really dragging and was kind of slow, but not in a bad way. It sort of had it's own pace. By the ending, I noticed that I couldn't wait for it to be over. Like it felt like the chapters where the same thing just recycled with different wordings. It's an okay book, a little bit overhyped but still enjoyable. I was interested in it because I kind of relate with the narrator with the dual nationality; I have and still feel like an outsider and people really do think there is no way you will 100% fit in with them.
Moving on, I made progress with A Game of Thrones. I am almost half way! I'm at the point where Catelyn just bumped into Tyrion on her travels back north after warning Eddard Stark.
I also started with Between the World and Me. I'm not far into it to give any proper criticism yet, but it's good so far.
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