{"id":4664,"date":"2018-06-02T12:12:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T19:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/?p=4664"},"modified":"2018-06-02T12:12:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T19:12:28","slug":"that-thing-we-call-a-heart-teen-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/2018\/that-thing-we-call-a-heart-teen-review-2\/","title":{"rendered":"That Thing We Call a Heart &#8212; Teen Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>review by\u00a0John Chon, age 15<\/p>\n<h3><em><strong>That Thing We Call a Heart\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by\u00a0Sheba Karim<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><b><i>That Thing We Call a Heart<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Sheba Karim is an interesting novel about the modern Muslim family. Not most teen books are about this topic. This book does a fair job with it, balancing it out with some family detail, but it centers mostly around Shabnam Qureshi\u2019s struggle to find herself and to reconcile with her friend, who started wearing the traditional headscarf of the Muslim culture. She eventually reconciles and even finds love, but is still struggling and eventually turns to her father and his traditional poetry she never understood, nor thought she would ever use or enjoy.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I dislike romance novels. They feel clich\u00e9d and boring often, yet it feels like every teen book has an element of romance. This book was a bit of an exception, as it did a good job on not just focusing on the amazing but flawed boyfriend stereotype, and it instead filled in other parts with other characters. This book is about love. It sees it all, from familial, to friendly, to even romantic love. While I can\u2019t say I didn\u2019t enjoy the first two, the last was boring for me. I eventually am torn, and have to rate it rather lowly, due to my feelings about some parts of the book. 2.5\/5 stars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Find this book in our catalog: <a href=\"http:\/\/pasadena.iii.com\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1641296__Sthat%20thing%20we%20call%20a%20heart__Orightresult__U__X7?lang=eng&amp;suite=pasadena\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">That Thing We Call a Heart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catalog Number: On Call<\/p>\n<p>275 pages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>review by\u00a0John Chon, age 15 That Thing We Call a Heart\u00a0by\u00a0Sheba Karim \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That Thing We Call a Heart by Sheba Karim is an interesting novel about the modern Muslim family. Not most teen books are about this topic. This book does a fair job with it, balancing it out with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":4665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-teen-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/sites\/18\/2018\/06\/that-thing-we-call-a-heart.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ZwbD-1de","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4636,"url":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/2018\/that-thing-we-call-a-heart-teen-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":4664,"position":0},"title":"That Thing We Call a Heart &#8212; Teen Review","author":"Teen Blogger","date":"April 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"review by\u00a0Sylvie Bower, age 16 That Thing We Call a Heart\u00a0by\u00a0Sheba Karim \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That Thing We Call a Heart is the story of Shabnam, a Pakistani-American girl, during her last summer in New Jersey before going to Penn. 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