Abmer Reads

30/06/2025

06/06/2025

Mohammed Aziz, a 70-year-old bookseller from Rabat, Morocco, reads books for 6 to 8 hours every day. After reading over 5,000 books in French, Arabic, and English, he is still the oldest bookseller in Rabat, having been in the same spot for more than 43 years.

22/05/2025

I just kicked off the Reading one page of a book everyday using ! Share the book cover and the page you are reading Tap the hashtag to view my challenge.

The challenge will run from May 22 to June 21. Can't wait to take a look at what you all have to share!

15/05/2025

Finishing If We Were Villains felt like stepping into a world where every word spoken is a double-edged sword, where friendship and betrayal dance so closely it’s impossible to tell them apart. As the book says, “This story’s about villains and heroes, truth and lies, passion and cruelty.”

This novel isn’t just about acting or crime, but about the masks we wear, the roles we’re forced into, and the consequences of living a life scripted by others yet chosen by ourselves. It made me reflect on how fragile identity is, how easily passion can turn to obsession, and how the line between villain and hero blurs in the shadows of our own choices.

Sometimes, the darkest parts of ourselves are revealed only when we dare to perform the unthinkable.

This story lingers long after the last page , because in the end, aren’t we all just playing parts in someone else’s story…

02/05/2025

I just finished The Secret History by Donna Tartt—and honestly, I’m still trying to process it.

It’s not the kind of story where you wonder WHO committed the crime. You know that from the start. What makes this book unsettling is how you watch everything slowly fall apart the guilt, the denial, the silence.

Richard, the narrator, joins this secretive group of Classics students at an elite college, and it’s clear from the beginning: these people are brilliant, intense, and a bit terrifying. Their obsession with beauty and ancient ideals slowly turns into something darker… something that makes you wonder how far people will go to feel like they BELONG.

What really stayed with me is the way the book makes you reflect on morality on how easily people can justify things when they think they’re above consequence.

Have you read it?
Did you feel conflicted the characters too?