#Arvin Ahmadi

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some queer ya books i enjoyed last year ✨️

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30 Days of Literary Pride - June 17

How It All Blew Up - Arvin Ahmadi

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5 YA Mini Reviews

5 YA Mini Reviews

Another day, another set of mini reviews. This time, here are five mini reviews of young adult books that I’ve recently read. Unfortunately not all were hits, but a few were gems. Shine by Jessica Jung Shine by Jessica Jung is the first of a duology about a Korean American girl who is training to become a K pop star. This story features Rachel Kim who is a trainee at DB Entertainment in Seoul.…

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Down and Across #OutOfContext

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“People fall prey to patterns, yes. We are driven by numbers and comparisons, but often, it's to our detriment. There's always going to be someone more successful than you, someone more liked than you, with more views than you.”

― Arvin Ahmadi, Girl Gone Viral

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🌙 Ramadan Mubarak - Books ft. Muslims

🦇 Good morning, my beautiful bookish bats. To celebrate this Islamic holy month, here are a FEW books featuring Muslim characters. I hope you consider adding a few to your TBR.

❓What was the last book you read that taught you something new OR what's at the top of your TBR?

🌙 A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum 🌙 Amal Unbound - Aisha Saeed 🌙 Love From A to Z - S.K. Ali 🌙 Hana Khan Carries On - Uzma Jalaluddin 🌙 Yes No Maybe So - Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed 🌙 Evil Eye - Etaf Rum 🌙 I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzai 🌙 Exit West - Mohsin Hamid 🌙 Written in the Stars - Aisha Saeed 🌙 The Night Diary - Veera Hiranandani 🌙 Much Ado About Nada - Uzma Jalaluddin 🌙 The Eid Gift - S.K. Ali 🌙 More Than Just a Pretty Face - Syed M. Masood 🌙 Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero - Saadia Faruqi 🌙 If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan 🌙 Snow - Orhan Pamuk 🌙 Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged - Ayisha Malik 🌙 The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad 🌙 And I Darken - Kiersten White 🌙 The Last White Man - Mohsin Hamid

🌙 Hijab Butch Blues - Lamya H 🌙 The Bad Muslim Discount - Syed M. Masood 🌙 Ms. Marvel - G. Willow Wilson 🌙 Love from Mecca to Medina - S.K. Ali 🌙 The City of Brass - S.A. Chakraborty 🌙 The Love Match by Priyanka Taslim 🌙 A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar 🌙 A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi 🌙 An Emotion of Great Delight by Tahereh Mafi 🌙 The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan 🌙 The Moor’s Account - Laila Lalami 🌙 Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian 🌙 Salt Houses by Hala Alyan 🌙 When a Brown Girl Flees by Aamna Quershi 🌙 Jasmine Falling by Shereen Malherbe 🌙 Between Two Moons by Aisha Abdel Gawad 🌙 Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini 🌙 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 🌙 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 🌙 Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal

🌙 Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie 🌙 All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir 🌙 The Bohemians by Jasmin Darznik 🌙 Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin 🌙 A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif 🌙 Chronicle of a Last Summer by Yasmine El Rashidi 🌙 A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena 🌙 Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga 🌙 The Mismatch by Sara Jafari 🌙 Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah 🌙 You Truly Assumed by Laila Sabreen 🌙 Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali 🌙 Once Upon an Eid - S.K. Ali and Aisha Saeed 🌙 Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan 🌙 Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson 🌙 The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar 🌙 A Show for Two by Tashie Bhuiyan 🌙 Nayra and the Djinn by Michael Berry 🌙 All-American Muslim Girl by Lucinda Dyer 🌙 It All Comes Back to You by Farah Naz Rishi

🌙 The Marvelous Mirza Girls by Sheba Karim 🌙 Salaam, with Love by Sara Sharaf Beg 🌙 Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf 🌙 How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi 🌙 Zara Hossain Is Here by Sabina Khan 🌙 Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam 🌙 She Wore Red Trainers by Na'ima B. Robert 🌙 Hollow Fires by Lucinda Dyer 🌙 Internment by Samira Ahmed 🌙 Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa 🌙 Love in a Headscarf - Shelina Zahra Janmohamed 🌙 Courting Samira by Amal Awad 🌙 The Other Half of Happiness by Ayisha Malik 🌙 Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy 🌙 Love, Hate & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed 🌙 Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed 🌙 Muslim Girls Rise - Saira Mir and Aaliya Jaleel 🌙 Amira & Hamza - Samira Ahmed 🌙 The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf 🌙 Nura and the Immortal Palace by M.T. Khan

🌙 As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh 🌙 Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan 🌙 Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao 🌙 The Yard - Aliyyah Eniath 🌙 When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar 🌙 The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty 🌙 Maya's Laws of Love by Alina Khawaja 🌙 The Chai Factor by Farah Heron 🌙 The Beauty of Your Face - Sahar Mustafah 🌙 Hope Ablaze by Sarah Mughal Rana

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matcha and pu-erh please ☕️

Aawww thank you love!🥰

Matcha: favorite book?

Hmmmmmmsjdjfkkf my scatter brain is incapable of picking just one lmao so here’s a top three in no particular order:

1. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson

2. How it All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi

3. Woman At Point Zero by Nawal el Saadawi

Pu-erh: 3 random facts about myself

1. My favorite Pokémon is Bulbasaur

2. I’ve started painting with gouache recently

3. My favorite TV show of all time is The Golden Girls!

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Gay Male Authors of Gay YA Novels

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I have not read all of these authors so I can’t vouch for quality, but here is a list of gay male authors* who have written at least one YA book with a gay male protagonist. I’m linking to their Amazon Author pages. I am sure there are more out there, but I haven’t been keeping up very well with the YA space. I have not read Heartstoppers, but I understand it is supposed to be a heartwarming coming-of-age love story? That is probably the dominant theme in the books these men write (although there are also coming-of-age with unrequited romance or no romance, dystopian thrillers, fantasy, and other genres in the mix.) 

*to the best of my knowledge this is accurate

Adam Sass

Adam Silvera

Adib Khorram

Andrew Eliopulos (who does not have an author page even though Amazon has his book) 

Arvin Ahmadi

Bill Konigsberg

Brent Hartinger

Brian D. Kennedy

Brian Zepka

Chris Tebbetts

David Levithan

David Valdes Greenwood

Erik J Brown

Grant Muller

James Brandon

Jason June

John Corey Whaley

Jordon Greene

Julian Winters

Kosoko Jackson

Lev AC Rosen

Marcus Herzig

Naz Kutub

Patrick Ness

Phil Stamper

R. Eric Thomas

Robbie Couch

Robby Weber

Ryan La Sala

Shaun David Hutchinson

Simon James Green

Steven Salvatore

TJ Klune

Vitor Martins

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Girl Gone Viral by Arvin Ahmadi

3/10

I speed-read it. It's cliche and kinda unnatural the way Opal (main character/narrator) talks and thinks.

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Title: How It All Blew Up

Author: Arvin Ahmadi

Rating: 4 out of 5

Review: I’ve had a digital copy of this book for two years and I’ve got to say after reading this, I’m upset at myself for not reading it sooner. I can’t say enough about this, it was a delight. Multiple POVs might not be for everyone but I’d say if you’re curious about that style of writing it’d be good to check this out. The POVs were easy to follow as the story is told through conversations between family members and airport security. Absolutely loved the LGBT+ rep in this, loved the characters and their relationships with one another. Fast-paced with chapters that ranged from one page to around 5 pages so a quick read if you need one. Recommended this to my mom right after and made her go out and buy a physical copy so I could read it again when I feel like it. It’s just so good.

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Filed under: coming-of-age Young Adult books about a gay Iranian-American boy who travels to another country

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Happy June 🌈

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Fave Five: Gay Fiction Set in Italy

Fave Five: Gay Fiction Set in Italy

Call Me By Your Name and Find Me by André Aciman (Riviera) How it All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi (Rome) A Beautiful Crime by Christopher Bollen (Venice) Leading Men by Christopher Castellani (Portofino) Two People by Donald Windham (Rome)

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Review: How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi Rating: 5/5

"I wish I could talk to Amir from a month ago. The one who thought his life was over. I wish I could have told myself it was all going to be okay."

Once Amir Azadi saw the gelato shop, he knew where he was headed. With the school's resident homophobes threatening to out him to his family, Amir runs away to Italy. In Rome, surrounded by gay men from all walks of life, Amir begins to understand that the things we're afraid of only have power if we don't face them. But he's going to need a little more prosecco before he faces his family.

One of the greatest joys as a reader is coming across a book that has a sense of humour that perfectly aligns with yours. How It All Blew Up is a hilarious, heartfelt novel featuring Amir, the sweetest baby gay to grace YA in some time. It was so wonderful watching him come to terms with his truth and finding the courage to talk to his family about why he ran away while connecting with other gay men and becoming more comfortable in his sexuality.

And I loved the whole interview room frame story. It gives such a good structure to the subtle plot and really keeps you guessing as Amir and his family drop dribs and drabs about what really went down on the plane. It was such a clever way to show all the sides of the situation and to let each of the Azadis shine. I won't pick favourites. (But Soraya was obviously my favourite).

A fantastic little novel that perfectly balances the fun of first love with the struggles of being a queer person of colour.

Warnings: Islamophobia, homophobia, bullying, blackmail.

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library book haul, got new books to read!!! once i finish the 10 others on my shelf of course

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“If you take away one lesson from my class, let it be this. Humans are experts in sharing. It started with cave paintings and evolved into books, tweets, virtual reality — who knows what's next. But the pieces of ourselves that we share are just that. Pieces. We're complicated beings who hardly understand our own selves, and that's precisely why we put those experiences out into the world. To find our place in it.”

― Arvin Ahmadi, Girl Gone Viral