#AutumnPlease! Day 31: This experimental novel feels like wearing the #Costume of one‘s zip code. The biting verse, poetry almost in its distillation, of this tale of a city has made it come alive along with its inhabitants and their foibles and musings and longings for a life other than the one they are living. For our #DecolonizeReading2023 reading theme.
#AutumnPlease! Day 29: There is #Betrayal in this novel - mostly perpetrated by the men in the female protagonists‘ lives. Finished it in less than a week, and read it as part of our #DecolonizeReading2023 theme. Review is forthcoming. Paired with banoffee cheesecake. Delish.
pick#AutumnPlease! Day 18: There are #Witch(y) women in this collection of stories I read as part of our #DecolonizeReading2023 theme. There was one story that resonated with me, Eyes of Zapata, with its parallels to the Filipino manananggal – except that this one flies full-bodied, finding her ertswhile-feckless lover, her emotions allowing her to defy gravity. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-ovU
#IdiomInsight Day 24: perfect for #SwanSong - got a copy of this for our #DecolonizeReading2023 reading theme. I hope to get to it soon enough, I hope.
#IdiomInsight Day 21: There is literally a #PieceOfCake alongside this novel I started reading four months ago and just finished reading early this week. I feel a sense of accomplishment! Review is forthcoming this Saturday. 💕Part of my #DecolonizeReading2023 list. 📚📚📚
#IdiomInsight Day 17: This, right here, is the #AppleOfMyEye paired with a #DecolonizeReading2023 title that I have been meaning to get to for the looongest time.
#BookBinge Day 20: This one definitely has #ImmigrantMC - part of the #DecolonizeReading2023 list, I haven‘t gotten back to it in months - will have to do it justice and finish reading it soonest.
pick#SummerSpecial Day 2: Not just any #boat but a Story #Boat. Narrated in lyrical text that builds up on words and phrases cumulatively leading to the next stop in one‘s journey, and accompanied by art that is both heartfelt and hopeful – is of its own league altogether. My review here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-mAF perfect for #DecolonizeReading2023 too.
so-so#MayMontage Day 17: #Bridge - This is the first book I can recall reading with the tumultuous and revolutionary history of Algeria as backdrop to a romance that is doomed to fail. While the first quarter of the novel appealed to my sensibility with its vulnerability, longing, and willingness to open unhealed wounds, the rest left me feeling impatient with a “Get on with it, please.” My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-oUJ #DecolonizeReading2023
Besides my LMPBC books every book I‘ve read this month has been off of Libby. I started Bad Cree one day and then the next day all 4 of the others came in and I just kept seeing 14 days count down. The theme song in my head has been The Heat is On by Glenn Fry. The pressure!!! Lol also top right guy is because The Heat Is On has a catchy sax lick like most 80‘s songs do and who can think about 80‘s sax without thinking about Lost Boys Sax Guy?👇🏼
