Unboxing 'The First Time I Saw Him' by Laura Dave

Maaloula is one of the last places on Earth where Western Aramaic is still spoken — one of only a few villages in Syria where this ancient language has survived. Aramaic is the language Jesus would have spoken daily. Not liturgical Latin, not modern Arabic, but a living, spoken tongue that once connected the entire Middle East from the Mediterranean to Mesopotamia. In Maaloula, Aramaic didn’t survive because it was preserved in books — it survived because it was passed from parent to child, neig

PROVOKING SAINT NICK REVIEW……This is my first book by this author and I really enjoyed this Christmas novella. It has all of my favourite tropes in here fake dating and brothers best friend. Charlie also really likes to wind Nick up and that hasn’t stopped as they’ve got older. I won’t lie, I did find her maturity level a bit low and I was surprised that Nick liked her but I did enjoy the story and would read others by echo. #provokingsaintnick #christmas #bookreview #bookrecommendations #BookTo