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Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone

Posted on 23 November, 20118 November, 2012 by Ikhlas

Karou is a regular human girl. She’s all of seventeen. She’s trying to get over her jerk of an ex-boyfriend. She goes to art school in Prague. She sketches in her spare time. Oh, and she is in close contact with the Other World. Before you roll your eyes about another world littered with sparkling…

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Hijabi Fashion Week (HWL)

Posted on 21 November, 201130 November, 2011 by Ikhlas

So last year around this time, I was working on the never-ending essay, titled “Muslim Fashionistas”. I stumbled on so many pictures, blogs, videos, and fashionistas online, some of which I’ve written about before. I also found the event Hijabi Fashion Week which had only finished a few weeks ago which made me sad, but it also…

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Hunger Games Movie

Posted on 16 November, 201116 November, 2011 by Ikhlas

So its out! If you have no idea what I’m talking about, check out my review here. My initial thought, stupid as it may be, is about the actors. Gale feels about right, but Peeta and Katniss are just not sitting right with me. Peeta is as blond as he’s described, but some of the…

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Review: The Summer I Turned Pretty

Posted on 7 November, 20118 November, 2012 by Ikhlas

Belly lives her life for the summer. September to June are just months to wile away before the magic of summer begins. Summer is when Belly goes to Cousins house, where her, her mom, and brother go to spend the summer with her mom’s best friend, Susannah Beck, and her sons. Belly has grown up…

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Review: Nevermore

Posted on 6 November, 20118 November, 2012 by Ikhlas

In Nevermore, Isobel Lanley sounds like your typical ‘popular girl’. She’s blond, a cheerleader, and is dating one of the jock’s at school. Her normal world spins out of control when she is paired up with Varen, the school goth and mystery boy, in English class. The pair are presenting on Edgar Allan Poe, and…

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