Things 13 to 15

Here is another book review for this week. I just finished reading the excellent book The Golem and The Jinni, by Helene Wecker. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15819028-the-golem-and-the-jinni
This is Ms. Wecker's first novel, and it's a brilliant debut. I was entranced by the rich background of late 19th century New York's Little Syria and Jewish neighbourhoods, as well as the vivid characters that were brought to life on the page. Chava and Ahmad, the main characters of this story, are poignantly estranged from the world around them. One is a golem, built to be a bride but widowed and adrift before she was even a few hours old. The other is a Jinni, a creature of fire from the arid desert who finds himself flung a thousand years forward into a world he doesn't know full of puzzling humans. Together they timidly enter this new world. This is a truly unusual story, not a passionate romance but a patient taming of the smallest embers, but what a bonfire it lights for the reader! The book left me with that fabulous feeling you get from those marvelous tales such as Scheherazade might tell. I'm going to be thinking about this book for a good while, continuing to assimilate the fantastical myths that the author has brought to life for me.

So far week 5 was quite easy; I already had a pinterest account from when we had seen an overview of various social media during other training, so the only thing I needed to do was add a new board and find something to pin to it. I also found quite a few new pinners to follow. Pinterest is fairly easy to use for basic things, though I find the different buttons are not very clearly labelled, so it takes a bit of trial and error to find where you want to go. I'm also confused as to my 'feed', which seems to be stuck on the same pictures all the time... must look into that at a future time.