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How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures by Huma Qureshi
5 reviews
bookswithhan's review
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
TW: Grief, Death of a Parent
After falling head over heels for Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love, I was kindly gifted her memoir How We Met by Elliot & Thompson
Qureshi is an exceptional writer and uses language so expertly, whether she is writing short stories or about her own life.
How We Met is about Qureshi's life as a British Muslim and meeting her white boyfriend, now husband, and introducing him to her family. The journey of Qureshi is full of ups and downs; leaving home, introductions to several potential husbands, losing her father, gaining a dream job, moving cities to finally meeting her now husband.
I felt there were many moments all women would be able to relate to, regardless of religion. However it did make me think of my grandmother who is staunchly Catholic, pointing out all the eligible Catholic men in church every Sunday.
Memoirs are usually people that have suffered significant trauma or had some miraculous event happen. Qureshi states that her story isn't exceptional, but I disagree. I think everyone has an interesting story and I absolutely love the stories behind how couples met and their circumstances.
Huma Qureshi has 100% become an auto-buy author for me and I am so eager to see what she releases next. I've already been dipping back into TWDNTTPWL and How We Met. Her writing is so poignant and measured yet feels so effortless and as though your friend is telling you a story.
How We Met is out in paperback today and I urge you to grab a copy. And if you haven't grabbed TWDNTTPWL yet, this is your signal to get both. She is a writer that will have you thinking about her words, characters and life in the days, weeks and months that will follow.
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After falling head over heels for Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love, I was kindly gifted her memoir How We Met by Elliot & Thompson
Qureshi is an exceptional writer and uses language so expertly, whether she is writing short stories or about her own life.
How We Met is about Qureshi's life as a British Muslim and meeting her white boyfriend, now husband, and introducing him to her family. The journey of Qureshi is full of ups and downs; leaving home, introductions to several potential husbands, losing her father, gaining a dream job, moving cities to finally meeting her now husband.
I felt there were many moments all women would be able to relate to, regardless of religion. However it did make me think of my grandmother who is staunchly Catholic, pointing out all the eligible Catholic men in church every Sunday.
Memoirs are usually people that have suffered significant trauma or had some miraculous event happen. Qureshi states that her story isn't exceptional, but I disagree. I think everyone has an interesting story and I absolutely love the stories behind how couples met and their circumstances.
Huma Qureshi has 100% become an auto-buy author for me and I am so eager to see what she releases next. I've already been dipping back into TWDNTTPWL and How We Met. Her writing is so poignant and measured yet feels so effortless and as though your friend is telling you a story.
How We Met is out in paperback today and I urge you to grab a copy. And if you haven't grabbed TWDNTTPWL yet, this is your signal to get both. She is a writer that will have you thinking about her words, characters and life in the days, weeks and months that will follow.
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief and Death of parent
saadiasreads's review
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Grief and Death of parent
readingwithkt's review
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
How We Met is an extremely beautiful book about family, love, grief, and coming of age.
Huma Qureshi has a simple, straightforward way of writing which is easy to connect with. As a reader, it took me a short bit of time to get engrossed in the memoir but then before I knew it, I was in floods of tears having been so emotionally invested. I'm not somebody who usually cries when reading books so that is certainly an impressive sign that this memoir made me feel so much.
Truly such a beautiful book! I hope more readers pick it up.
Thanks to Huma Qureshi for sharing her story with us, and to the publisher for sending me a copy via Netgalley.
Huma Qureshi has a simple, straightforward way of writing which is easy to connect with. As a reader, it took me a short bit of time to get engrossed in the memoir but then before I knew it, I was in floods of tears having been so emotionally invested. I'm not somebody who usually cries when reading books so that is certainly an impressive sign that this memoir made me feel so much.
Truly such a beautiful book! I hope more readers pick it up.
Thanks to Huma Qureshi for sharing her story with us, and to the publisher for sending me a copy via Netgalley.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent
menapla's review
emotional
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief and Death of parent
Minor: Medical content
hannahrhian's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death of parent