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Jun. 30th, 2020 12:59 pmCurrently re-reading Shira Glassman's Mangoverse, and I wanted to take a moment to quote this bit from Climbing the Date Palm:
Ugh, love it.
The prince smiled slightly. "Save him..." Then he started to faint again.
Rivka grabbed him by both shoulders. "Wake up," she demanded. His eyes rolled open, but she wasn't sure if he was there. "Do you love him?"
"Yes. More... more than life."
Rivka tightened her grip on him and stared into his eyes. "You have to love life as much as you love him, do you year me? Because if you don't live to tell me where he is, or how I can rescue him, he'll die. So try harder."
Slowly, the prince nodded.
Ugh, love it.
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Date: 2020-07-01 01:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-01 01:06 am (UTC)Shira would want me to say that you don't have to read them in order, either; she wrote them to stand more-or-less on their own. Any of the later books will spoil something pretty significant for Mango, but that's probably to be expected 😜
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Date: 2020-07-02 08:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-02 08:27 pm (UTC)Edit: Oh! And the current editions also have a glossary in the back explaining some of the Jewish and Yiddish terms used throughout the story. I don't know if you'd need it, and the stories are written so you should be able to mostly figure things out from context anyway, but as a gentile who likes to know things, I definitely appreciate them.
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Date: 2020-07-02 08:47 pm (UTC)I've read up on Judaism (religious studies is a subject I love), but I'm no expert, so that is definitely handy!