THE ISLAND OF THE MISSING TREES BY ELIF SHAFAK (BOOK REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATION)
Today I shall review The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak. I was actually gifted this book. What a wonderful present it proved to be! Published in 2021, this postmodern novel follows two story lines and uses framed narration. The Island of Missing Trees tells the life story of a Greek Turkish couple and their adolescent daughter. This novel examines and explores a number of topics such as identity, migration, immigrant life, war trauma, memory, love and family. It's an ambitious novel that examines serious topics with due respect and sensitivity . I read it months ago, but I remember it vividly. Honestly, I cried a lot while reading this novel. It really moved me greatly. In fact, that is probably why it took me this long to finish this book review. I needed to emotionally process the story. The Island of Missing Trees is set in London and Cyprus. The narration isn't chronological . The story jumps back and forth, following ...
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Wow, is it related to dance class ? I love it anyway ;)
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it's a fashion show:)
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ReplyDeleteunfortunately you didnt write about your pics - i would love to know more about it.
Please tell me: who is this on your first pic? I love this shot - gosh, this is wonderful!!!
I love the combo on the left: leggings, tights and heeled sandals. I hear the "fashion-police" screaming in the background: "wearing tights in open shoes/sandals - this is a absolutely NO-GO!!!" Do you know this phrase as well? But i say: this is a absolutely "YES-GO". Is it in your country the same, that women dont wearing tights to open shoes?
If i´m looking on the blogs of some of my followers, i see women they dont wearing tights - even in this autumn-season. I cant understand it.
What your thoughts about this?
Bye.
Jennifer
Hi dear...I took these photos at that fashion show, so in the first photo you can see the heels of the make up artist and the model. They were standing facing one another while the make up was applied. It seems like a good detail to me, so I took a photo of it.
Deleteyesterday, I went to a wedding and almost all women wore tights. The only ones who didn't were the ones who had long dresses. We always wear high heels to weddings here, it is part of the dress code and it is much easier to walk and dance in them in tights.....I think women here wear tights more often than in some other countries.
Like yourself, I think there is nothing wrong with wearing tights to open toe shoes.
hey my dear,
Deletethanks for your description - i appreciate.
So far i was´nt on a wedding, but i can say, that not very much women wearing tights in my region. The most i see are mostly (black) opaque tights - proper to the autumn season right now. And Teens wearing (knee)socks. I think they dont even know pantyhoses...;-) And "heeled" women??? Not really. On the streets i see very much Ballerinas and Boots - this is ok - i like this shoes! But in the city (on a shopping day) there are no Heels on women feets.
Bye.
Jennifer