In the past I have done a whole week long deep dive into favorites and least favorites of various age ranges, hightlights for non-fiction and whatever else came to mind. Now I just shrink it all down into one long post I like to consider my bookish superlatives. Some of these make more sense than…
Category: 2018
Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi
“Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. Everything precious was also vulnerable.” For Penny Lee, high school was lackluster at best. Her grades were fine, her friends were fine, and her boyfriend was fine. However, it’s finally time for her to leave home and go…
The White Book by Han Kang
“Standing at this border where land and water meet, watching the seemingly endless recurrence of the waves (though this eternity is in fact illusion: the earth will one day vanish, everything will one day vanish), the fact that our lives are no more than brief instants is felt with unequivocal clarity.” The White Book is…
Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
“We might be Paper Girls, easily torn and written upon. The very title we’re given suggests that we are blank, waiting to be filled. But what the Demon King and his court do not understand is that paper is flammable. And there is a fire catching among us.” Girls of Paper and Fire follows Lei,…
6 Books for Black History Month!
February is Black History month in Canada and the United States. It is a way to remember important people and events in the history of African diaspora. So to start off I’m going to recommend some of my favorite books by black authors. The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma Benjamin, a nine-year-old, is the fourth child…
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
“She belonged to herself only. She had edges, boundaries, tastes, definition down to her eyelashes. And when she walked it was clear she knew where she was going.” Some very minor spoilers ahead! Sweetbitter, Danler’s debut novel, follows Tess who lands herself a job as a backwaiter at a celebrated downtown Manhattan restaurant. Newly arrived…
She Would be King by Wayetu Moore
“Loneliness while in the presence of others is a most cruel kind.” She Would be King is a debut novel by Liberian-American Wayétu Moore. Moore re-imagines the birth of Liberia through three characters that share an uncommon bond. We follow Gbessa, June Dey, and Norman Aragorn as they come together to bring peace and start…
Even the Darkest Stars by Heather Fawcett
“And then I came to a place where the mountain stopped. Where there was nowhere else to go. I had reached the summit of Raksha.” Kamzin always wanted to be a member of the Royal Explorers and travel across the world with the other elite climbers tasked at mapping far off places for the emperor….
Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao
“What is love, Poori?” Savitha said. “What is love if not a hunger?” In the United States, January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. The goal is to raise awareness and to inform the populace of the indicators of human trafficking. So for this month, my reading recommendation is Girls Burn Brighter by…
Most Disappointing Reads of 2018!
So here are my most disappointing reads of this year. For me they were disappointing for different reasons and I am not saying that these are bad books. Actually I quite liked There There, but it still makes this list. If you like these books, that is great. This is just my opinion and they…
The Great Book Wyrm 