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THE DJINN WAITS A HUNDRED YEARS by Shubnum Khan

RELEASE DATE: Jan. 9, 2024

A ghost story, a love story, a mystery—this seductive novel has it all.

A haunted house full of haunted people is the setting for this lively, moving tale.

When 15-year-old Sana Malek and her widowed father move from Johannesburg, South Africa, to Durban in 2014, they land in a once-glorious mansion overlooking the sea, now a ramshackle rooming house presided over by a kindly old man called Doctor. Sana is familiar with ghosts, having been haunted all her life by the spiteful ghost of her previously conjoined twin sister, who died soon after they were separated. So she recognizes that the house teems with them. She forms tentative bonds with some of the place’s corporeal residents, a group of contentious older women. But she’s more interested in the departed, and she begins to unravel their stories, especially when she finds a long-locked bedroom with diaries and photos that are evidence of a couple in love. In 1919, we learn in the book’s second timeline, a dashing, wealthy young Muslim man named Akbar Ali Khan left his village in Gujarat. Eventually he settled in Durban, following an arranged marriage in India with his modern Anglophile wife, Jahanara Begum. They have a son and daughter, but their marriage never warms, despite the spectacular house and gardens he builds for them. Then he does fall in love, with a Tamil girl hired to work in his sugar factory. Meena rejects him, but he takes her as another wife anyway, patiently winning her over until their love catches fire. Akbar isn’t the only one in love with Meena; the djinn of the title, an ancient creature weary of the world, is enchanted. But Jahanara’s bitter jealousy of Meena will lead them all to a terrible fate. Almost a century later, Sana will put it all together—but will that bring catastrophe? Khan’s prose is lush and lovely, her pacing skillful, and she successfully weaves a complex plot with a large cast.

A ghost story, a love story, a mystery—this seductive novel has it all.

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Murderbot, a character who is motivated beyond all else by the need to protect and preserve the life, peace, and safety of the people around it: and i shall dub myself...........................MURDERBOT

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would you guys like to see a real illustration from an actual published scientific paper? of course you would

link to the paper

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it's so sicka nd twisted how niccolo machiavelli wrote a book that tried to realistically recount the brutality of 15th century power struggles and his name is now a synonym for Suepr Evil Fucked Up Guy but thomas hobbes wrote a 688-page supervillain manifesto and he gets to have his name associated with an adorable whimsical stuffed tiger forever

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Legolas and Gimli, Lord of the Rings

Artist: Dagmar Jung, 2003

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distressing things to say to your friends

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Kigo: a word used in haiku to indicate the season

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you know a joke that never EVER gets old is when a character says smth like “I will NOT go to [place] and that is FINAL” and then it cuts to them in that place I eat that shit up every single time

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Perge

the urge to draw in an ancient city is embodied

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What's your DIY cardinal sin mine is that I never countersink screws

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The plan was complete.

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Three ceremonial arrowheads, Bohemian, c. 1437–39.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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everything

this one has a backstory

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Fantasy-ifying the Pacific Coast 🐲

(journal sketchpage wip)

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Danger bar.

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That’s enough phone content. I’m done now.

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