Tag: Malala Yousafzai

• Top Ten Tuesday: Great Quotes from Books I Read this Year

  November 17, 2015

  Poetry

  Annie Barrows, book quotes, books, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Donnat Tartt, Gabrielle Zevin, George Eliot, great quotes, Iris Murdoch, Kate Forsyth, Malala Yousafzai, Mary Ann Shaffer, Maya Angelou, quotes about stories, Reading, Renee Ahdieh, Top Ten Tuesday

  Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic was to pick some of our favorite quotes from books we’ve read this year. So I went back through some of the books I read this year, and here’s what I came up with. Some books…

• Baking for Bookworms: Chapatis from I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

  March 13, 2015

  Baking for Bookworms

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  There’s not too much mention of food in Malala Yousafzai’s autobiography, except in passing. For the most part, foods are either associated with the familiar smells and tastes of Pakistan, or they are associated with the alienness of England. This breakfast though is mentioned twice, first in Pakistan and then in England as a way…

• 2015 Women Writers Reading Challenge–Book #8: I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

  February 19, 2015

  Reading Challenge

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  There are books that touch your heart, but there are also people who touch your heart. I read this book because I heard really great things about it. I thought the book would be powerful and leave me with feelings of gratitude and a call to action on behalf of the rights of women (both…