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[soc_puppet]

Currently re-reading Shira Glassman's Mangoverse, and I wanted to take a moment to quote this bit from Climbing the Date Palm:

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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[bemused_writer]

Oh, Shira Glassman's books have been on my to-read list for ages! The quote there makes me want to read them even more. ^^

[soc_puppet]

They are so soft and delightful. I mentioned on Tumblr that re-reading them after so long feels like getting a hug from a beloved friend I haven't seen in ages. There's stuff that could definitely use some tweaking, especially in The Second Mango and (to a lesser extent) Date Palm, but they're still absolute treasures.

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 😜

[bemused_writer]

Oh, I definitely have to check them out now! ^^ So nice to have a series that is so nice to revisit.

[soc_puppet]

She's got the entire Mangoverse available on Amazon, and all of it except The Second Mango available as PDFs on Gumroad if you want an Amazon alternative. There's a few other titles she has that are only on Amazon and not Gumroad, but her most popular stuff should otherwise be available there. And if you end up liking them, I'm sure it'd make her day if you left a review somewhere she could find it 😊

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.

[bemused_writer]

Ohh, super cool! I enjoy writing reviews on GoodReads, so I sure wouldn't mind doing so. ^^

I've read up on Judaism (religious studies is a subject I love), but I'm no expert, so that is definitely handy!