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review: rooftops of tehran

book info: on sale: now copy from: public library pages: 348 review written: 21.12.17 originally published: 2009 edition read: Penguin NAL 2009 title: Rooftops of Tehran author: Mahbod Seraji In a middle-class neighborhood of Iran's sprawling capital city, 17-year-old Pasha Shahed spends the summer of 1973 on his rooftop with his best friend Ahmed, joking around one minute and asking burning questions about life the next. He also hides a secret love for his beautiful neighbor Zari, who has been betrothed since birth to another man. But the bliss of Pasha and Zari's stolen time together is shattered when Pasha unwittingly acts as a beacon for the Shah's secret police. The violent consequences awaken him to the reality of living under a powerful despot, and lead Zari to make a shocking choice... my thoughts: This book was first published in 2009 and I remember adding it to my list around that time but never actually reading it since I preferred checking out library books to ...

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600: A Celebration in Giveaways

I've recently hit 600 followers, as you all may know (hehe) so I'm finally celebrating! Thanks to the generosity of authors and publishers, I have lovely prizes for you! Including three paranormal books, three contemporary books, a dystopian and a historical fiction. What books are they, you may ask? Well, that's a surprise.

600: A Celebration in Giveaways (August 14th through August 20th)


Most of the prizes will be sent directly from the publisher or author to the winners. Most giveaways are US only (sorry!) and will all end on September 6th

Of course, you'll be required to follow Pages. I don't think it's fair for a giveaway celebrating my followers to allow non-followers to enter. You know?

Some of the extra entries are here (if you want to do them now, so you can just breeze through the giveaways, go ahead!)


  • follow pages (required)
  • follow voyage (my writing/photography and inspiration blog)
  • follow @ilovepages on twitter 
  • friend me on goodreads:
  • add the giveaway button to your blog or website (the button is coming up soon!)
I haven't added too many extra entries, like following me on pinterest or anything (trying to keep it simple) so I hope this isn't too much to ask of you :) I'm really trying to use more social media, so this is like a little shameless promotion! I like to use my blog as my main tool, so I'll probably fail at tweeting.

The Giveaway Button:


600: A Celebration in Giveaways




Regarding the following of Voyage

"Voyage" (voy-aaj) is my personal/writing blog that I've just created recently. It's going to have loads of things like photographs, songs, watercolour paintings (by me) and posts about writing. But I am not looking for followers.

I don't want followers who're going to follow me simply because they'll get an extra entry. I'm simply putting up the option so you'll be aware of it, and may decide you like my writing blog and join. The extra entry is just a reward for those who are interested, but it's not required! Like, honestly, don't follow if you don't want to!

This page will be updated everyday with the giveaways going on so you can always check back here! If you'd rather just wait until the 20th and fill in all the Rafflecopters then at once, feel free to do so :)

I'm looking forward to a fun week!

Day #1: The Second Empress by Michelle Moran (happy release day!)
Day #2: Innocent Darkness by Suzanne Lazear
Day #3: Airhead by Meg Cabot and Girl Out Loud by Emily Gale
Day #4: Cat Girl's Day off by Kimberly Pauley
Day #5: Above by Leah Bobet


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