u/TheDiabeticTreeLives

That’s looking to learn about other cultures/how to be kind hearted/stories with a lot of character development/books that don’t have the white male gaze/books with strong female main characters/fiction..

I listen to my books via Libby app from the library .. I’m very interested in books from the Middle East right now. The first book I listened to was Fatima Farheen Mirza’s A Place For Us which was about an Indian American Muslim family in America and their family dynamic and a tenderhearted love story tucked in. The second book I read was Together Tea about an Iranian American family and their family dynamic with a very sweet love story thrown in. And the third book I read was The Lion Women of Tehran which is also about Iranian women and ends in America. The last two books are by Marjan Kamali. I’m currently listening to A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum.

I’d prefer a man to be honest.. as I’m a family man and don’t want the opportunity to get tangled up in feelings with some woman out there on the interwebs .. Im also looking for a white guy like me, not because I’m raciest but because as a white guy who is trying to not be a part of the patriarchy and to expand my viewpoints and learn about other cultures I feel that we can deconstruct our white patriarchy perspective together.

About Me: I’m a 36 year old guy who’s a quarter Spanish, who grew up in a big city, loves other cultures, is with a Salvadoran and Guatamalen woman. I have two children, ages, 8 and 2. I live in Vegas .. I am Christian but very progressive and I don’t believe in hell and I have much different views than are standard. I’m chunky, I love to bicycle. I love photography. I love people. I’m broke.

My heading says it all. I listened to A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza and then Together Tea by Marjan Kamali and then The Lion Women of Tehran and I’m having such a good time. But I also feel really lonely .. I feel like it’s just me and the story or just me and the author .. it’s funny though because there is such a thing as a book club where a group of people are all listening to or reading the same book and that sounds like it may address that issue. But I’ve never been a part of one lol. I think I was also sad because I wrote a question about what to listen to next after A Place For Us on a book Reddit and got no response.. It was really disappointing. What do you guys think?