Status Updates From قواعد العشق الأربعون

And between sitting for a while and getting so suddenly excited about this novel (started the internal novel), I can’t at this moment focus on the novel except to notice we have a murderer and a death/dead body in a well which of course makes me think of Pamuk’s My Name is Red and wow…going for a walk and will go back to this *glee* a bit later

Hehehe!! *glee*
The novel within the novel begins with a note on an Arabic letter, B, and “The /Mathnawi/ starts with B, Just like all the chapters in this novel….”
Which they do!!
But so do the chapters and sections that preceded the novel within the novel! I checked 😄
(No I don’t know what this means yet)

Lol “Little did she know” will always make me think of Stranger Than Fiction and wow, the book that changed her life, that’s enough to make Ella start at the sky + yell just like our STF protagonist
Honestly annoyed this is another damp doormat housewife as main character book - not sure how I missed that or how I seem to have hopped on this train. Esp for my 1st Shafak book 🫠 that I was so excited to start

عمل شاق ومرهق جداًً، ولكنه الإرهاق اللذيذ الذي يجعل عقلك يفور!