Recent reads #7

Here we go, another recent reads post, my favorite one to write, I just feel happy writing about the books I read, happy that with all the stress I'm going through I managed to read all those books. half of them are graphic novels, I feel like I discovered my new favorite thing, I didn't know that they could be so interesting so diverse, I guess they are just like other novels, so the books I read in the past weeks are:

Blankets, Manteau de neige by GRAIG THOMPSON: this book tells the story of the author himself, about his childhood when he was sharing his bed with his little brother, but mostly about his teens, his first love and his struggle with religion, and his fear of the future, this book was funny, sad, and confusing at times I really liked it, everything is so real and anyone could relate to some part of this book, maybe because we kind of go through the same things on our road to adulthood.

Asterios Polyp by DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI: I don’t know what to say about this graphic novel beside that it wasn’t easy for me understand what was happening in the beginning, but once I got used to it, it just blow my mind, the story is about this professor who thinks that he already knows everything about this world, he has this way of thinking that blocks creativity and diversity, but something would happen and would make him go on this journey where he would rediscover himself, this book was just amazing.

J’aurai adoré etre ethnologue by MARGAUX MOTIN: this GN is the first tome of a trilogy, I already read the third one of it which was good,  this tome wasn’t as good as the third one but it was readable, the hole series is about diaries of Margaux it’s not deep or anything it’ just fun to read sometimes even sallow but it’s ok I’m not  planning to read the second tome I think I got enough of Margaux

Dans l’ombre de charonne by Désirée and Alain FRAPPIER this GN is the testimony of Maryse Douek about what happened during the manifestation of metro charonne against fascism and for peace at algeria where 9 died  and 250 got injured, the book discusses the problimatic of the state using violence and brutality on people who were peacefully manifesting against some state’s decisions. killing innocent people just like that and never recognize that what happened was a crime made Maryse collaborate on doing this GN it was really frustrating to know that even in france the country of human rights those kinds of things happened  

الخبز الحافي by Mohamed chokri I was really hesitant to read this book I have heard a lot about how violent and disgusting it is but it was ok it was real and true that’s all, the book is the biographie of the author and it happened that he had a really hard childhood that’s all I’m glad I read this book and I’ll definitely read other books Mohamed chokri

1Q84 by HARUKI MURAKAMI, I bought this book because one I LOVE Haruki Murakami, two the title is inspired by one of my favorite books 1984 by george orwell, three it was so cheap, I was so happy to purchase it until I noticed it was only the first part of trilogy, I was hesitant to read it because I knew I would love it and I won't be able to find the second and the third books, and what I feared happened, the book is just amazing it was hard to get into it at first but once into it I was hooked I couldn't stop reading. I'm really sad that i'm not able to read the rest of the series.

The metamorphosis by KAFKA, my first book by this well known author, and I wasn't disappointed the story of this book isn't a regular one, it starts with our main character waking up to find himself an insect, I went through all the emotions while reading this book, I won't lie my eyes kind of teared up by the end of the story.

Books are all we need to make this life less bitter, I can't understand how some people who can read just go through this life without reading just how ?

Things to do on the beach

Not long ago I went to Taghazout with my sisters, a beach 15 kms away from Agadir, the weather was so windy but that did not prevent us from having fun, we didn't swim but we did other bunch of things to enjoy our time there, and in this post I’ll suggest some activities you can do on the beach when you can't swim, because sometimes times sitting there looking at the waves can get a little bit boring:

 1- Take a walk around the village or the shops close to the beach:

Taghazout is a small fishing village not much to see in it, but who knows what you can discover there, I bought from it a postcard till now I don’t know to whom send it.

the world's first pizza hot restaurant

Taghazout beach is famous for surfing

2- Take a book with you:

Just take it with you, you’ll never know maybe you’ll read it, it all depends on your mood and the people you are with, I took with me the book I was reading at that time the metamorphose by KAFKA.

3- Play any card games:
There is a lot of card games really fun to play with, I like the ones with questions about culture, you discover that you are not the only ignorant one among your friends.

4- Make a rainbow:

My rainbow isn't as good as the one I saw on the dainty squid but I tried, it was my first time making one and it was really fun making it and this how you make one:

collect  garbage which in morocco is so easy

sort them by color

then shape them as a square or a hearth or what ever you want,

How cute is my friend

5- Take plenty of pictures:

so those are all the things we did on the beach, it was a fun day, Taghazout beach was a really beautiful place to visit, if you are around don't forget to visit it;

Recent reads #6

It was a while now that I didn't write a recent reads post, so it’s time to do it. I have been reading some really interesting books, in fact if you visit my goodreads account you would notice that all the books I rated lately have either 4 stars or 5 stars and that’s mainly because I became aware of the books I would enjoy just by the title and the author. it's like I finally found the genre that I prefer, it was a while now that I gave up on a book I started reading which is a good thing, right?

The first book I'm going to start with is Kafka on shore by haruki murakami;

This book introduced me to the surrealist genre, the book follows the story of two characters kafka a fifteen year old boy who runs away from his home and Nakata a man who can speak with cats, every thing that happens in this book is so random, it was like rereading alice in wonderland again, I don't know if there is some deep philosophical explanations to what happens in this book, all I know is that I really enjoyed it, it's now a month that I finished it but I still remember every character on it even the cats Nakata spoke with.

The next books I read were le deuxieme sexe by Simone de Beauvoir and the vagina monologues by Eve Ensler;

When I was looking for books about the feminist movement, those two books would always show up, so I started with them, le deuxieme sexe is actually  described by a lot of people by the feminist bible, I was curious to know why I know now this book is just amazing, it's like a history book written from a woman point of view, it was definitely not an easy read for me, and it made me sad to know how much ignorant I was about women about my own sexe but i'm glad I read it and I'm planning to read the second tome of it,

as for the second book which was the vagina monologues, I don't know what to say about this book, its idea is just genius, the author asked a bunch of women about their gavina, and the answers were sometimes funny others not that much. coming from a country where we get no sex eduction, no informations about our bodies even our moms don't bother to do that. I found this book really interesting we should study it at school, well I know this dream would never come true.

The last books I’m going to talk about are all graphic novels, I LOVE graphic novels I can read them all day long, well if I choose the right ones and this time I did.

La tectonique des plaques by Margaux Motin:  

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney:

A Distant Neighborhood by Jirō Taniguchi :

Those were the books I have been reading those couple of months, I really enjoyed every single one of them so much. what have you been reading?

Olhao garden

If you ask a lot of people about their favorite place, the place where they prefer to go when they want to clear their head,  most of them would say the beach, as for me I won’t say the beach I like the beach but not as much as I like the forest, with its trees, flowers and birds, laying down on the grass and just hearing all the sounds around me is the definition of heaven.

Spring is coming soon and I can’t wait for spring break to go with my friends out of the city and enjoy nature but till then the only option I have are gardens, Agadir does have a lot of beautiful gardens compared to other cities but my favorite one would  be olhao.

It’s written in here that this garden opened the 2nd mars 1992

What I do in this garden? I eat, read, and take pictures.