#Onjali Q. Raúf

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Title: The Night Bus Hero | Author: Onjali Q. Raúf | Publisher: Orion Children's Books (2020)

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The Night Bus Hero by Onjali Q. Raúf

The Night Bus Hero by Onjali Q. Raúf

The Night Bus Hero by Onjali Q. Raúf. Delacorte Press, 2022. 9780593382028 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 3.5 Format: Hardcover Genre:  Realistic fiction What did you like about the book? Hector is a troublemaker and a bully, and he aims to be “the best” menace ever. He and his pals extort candy from classmates, play mean tricks, and take pride in never doing homework.…

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The Night Bus Hero by Onjali Q. Raúf

The Night Bus Hero by Onjali Q. Raúf

The Night Bus Hero by Onjali Q. Raúf. Delacorte Press, 2022. 9780593382028 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 3.5 Format: Hardcover Genre:  Realistic fiction What did you like about the book? Hector is a troublemaker and a bully, and he aims to be “the best” menace ever. He and his pals extort candy from classmates, play mean tricks, and take pride in never doing homework.…

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For this year’s Brighton Festival, I’m writing many of the blog posts that appear on the festival website. This piece is about a local ice cream vendor releasing a new traditional Syrian flavour in honour of this year’s Young City Read The Boy At The Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Raúf, who will be appearing at Brighton Festival. 

#brighton festival #brighton #the boy at the back of the class #Onjali Q. Raúf #young city reads #articles

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I was tagged by @sols-actual-main-blog thank you :)

last song: Lisa Miskovsky - Still Alive

last movie: Neon Genesis Evangelion - The End of Evangelion (several months ago but I don’t watch movies that often)

currently watching: Friends and Attack on Titan: The Final Season

currently reading: Onjali Q. Raúf - The Star Outside My Window

currently craving: This pandemic to be over or at least less severe so I can hang out with my friend again and the local goth/new wave/synth-pop club can open again.

As usual, I tag everyone who wants to do this

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Sometimes words hang around longer than people, even when you don’t want them to.

Onjali Q. Raúf, The Boy at the Back of the Class

#razreads #book quote #the boy at the back of the class #onjali q rauf #words #companionship #regret #queue have a good day now

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I was tagged by @mad-madam-m <3

Top 3 favourite ships:

That changes pretty constantly. At this point in time:

1.) Parker x Hardision x Eliot from Leverage (Ngl, @aredblush you might have another commission coming your way pretty soon if you’re taking them....)

2.) Stucky from Marvel

3.) As a staple I’d say Sterek from Teen Wolf but I’ve just finished Gilmore Girls for the umpteenth time and I’m on a bit of a Rory x Jess high too.

(Also, Stoncy from Stranger Things. Why wasn’t that a thing that happened??????)

Last song listened to:

It was either Watch Me by Labbi Siffre or Anchor by Novo Amor

Last movie watched:

Um...I think it was We Have Always Lived in the Castle. I’ve been watching more TV shows than films of late. Not had the time for films, alas! 

Reading:

The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Raúf

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (I gifted myself the prettiest Barnes and Noble edition *happy sigh*)

What food am I craving right now:

Pasta. Always pasta. Also, pancakes. And hummus. And sun-dried tomatoes. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand.....banana bread. Which I made at 10pm last night because I got a sudden undeniable craving but forgot it took one whole hour to cook. The things I do for baked good....

Tagging: @lena221bee @littlerosetrove @hasan-minhaj @dudeitstyler @dust1feather @matildajones @mermaid-reyes @smowkie  @mymindsecho aaaaaaand anyone else who wants to share! Always like getting new film and book recs!

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'The London book of our lifetime': Guy Gunaratne wins Jhalak prize

Guy Gunaratne has won the Jhalak prize for writers of colour for his Man Booker prize-nominated debut In Our Mad and Furious City, a novel that unfolds over 48-hours on a London council estate and was praised by judges as “timely and important”.

Gunaratne, who worked as a journalist and documentary film-maker before turning to writing, grew up in north-west London with Sri Lankan parents. In Our Mad and Furious City, which is set during a summer of unrest that begins when an off-duty soldier is murdered by a black man, was spurred by the murder of Lee Rigby.

In a 2018 interview with the Observer, Gunaratne recalled being disturbed by a video of Rigby’s killer, Michael Adebolajo, covered in blood.

“I remember being shocked, not really by the event, but by the fact that he was talking the way I did, and was dressed the same way kids from my school were dressed. Even his mannerisms and the way he carried himself looked familiar. It was terrorism, just way too close to home … You’re not supposed to identify with monsters. Instead I wanted to refract that feeling of being disturbed through five different voices; so each character confronts their own version of extremism,” he said.

Now in its third year, the Jhalak prize was set up in 2016 by authors Sunny Singh and Nikesh Shukla, and Media Diversified to award the best book by a British or British-resident black, Asian and minority ethnic author. It was established in response to the Writing the Future report from Spread the Word in 2015, which found that only 8% of people working in British publishing self-identified as coming from a BAME background.

In 2017, Tory MP Philip Davies complained to the Equality and Human Rights Commission that the Jhalak prize breached discrimination rules, arguing that the prize was unfair to white authors and was an example of “positive discrimination”. The EHRC dismissed his complaint after an investigation, which Singh said had caused “enormous stress” and wasted resources.

Commending Gunaratne’s book, judge and author Anna Perera said, “Daring and lively to the point where the words overflow the page and hum in your head, the still measured reflection of contemporary London life feels deeply personal and revealing, fully confident and free from compromise.”

Poet Siana Bangura said it “threw me into a warm and familiar nostalgia for a London I know well”, while playwright Sabrina Mahfouz called it “the London book of our lifetime”.

“As I finished it, the only solace was knowing that it is Gunaratne’s debut – we have so much more to look forward to from him,” Mahfouz added.

Open to all forms of writing, this year’s shortlist included Raymond Antrobus’s poetry collection The Perseverance, Aminatta Forna’s novel Happiness, Onjali Q Raúf’s children’s novel The Boy at the Back of the Class, Akala’s memoir and polemic Natives, and Built by structural engineer Roma Agrawal.

Gunaratne received the £1,000 award at a ceremony on Wednesday night.

Report for the Guardian, 01/05/18, Web link: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/01/the-london-book-of-our-lifetime-guy-gunaratne-wins-jhalak-prize

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Books To Celebrate Refugee Week

Books To Celebrate Refugee Week

This week is Refugee Week, a week long festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees. Now more than ever, we need to shut down the misconceptions that we have of refugees and bring forth more positive encounters and promoting a culture of learning from one another and also, of welcoming one another. And there is no better way to facilitate that feeling through…

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Title: The Boy at the Back of the Class | Author: Onjali Q. Raúf | Publisher: Hachette Children's Group (2018)

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The Star Outside My Window by Onjali Q. Raúf

The Star Outside My Window by Onjali Q. Raúf

  The Star Outside My Window by Onjali Q. Raúf, Delacorte Press, 9780593302279, First US Edition 2021 Format: Hardcover Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 4 Genre:  Realistic Fiction What did you like about the book? Aniyah and Noah are in foster care. Their mother has disappeared, and they are hiding from their abusive father. Aniyah and Noah slowly acclimate to their new…

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