May was another good #bookspin month! No bingos, and I didn't get to one of this month's calls, but I did finish Hidden Cities which was I believe my February #bookspin
Looking forward to the June calls 🙂
@thearomaofbooks - thanks as always for hosting!
Some more progress on #offmyshelf
Started before: I finally finished Hidden Cities! 🎉 This poor book got shunted aside for library holds and other books way more than it deserved. Anyway, done now.
Newest on tbr: The Way Home. Really enjoyed these two novellas. Peter Beagle, so no surprise there.
Gifted: Our Green Heart. Also enjoyed, and I'm happy I read a gifted book somewhat soon after getting it!
@wanderinglynn
pick#Bibliophile Day 15: #AbtAdoption #AboutAdoption of a stray fur friend who finds his humans and adopts them in turn. I found this to be a lovely story – told simply – yet with a distinct sense of place that made it pretty special. It is also a gentle reminder that being lost is not always necessarily such a bad thing, after all. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-rlO
“Set in the night market in Taipei, Taiwan, this picturebook beautifully captures the bond that forms between a stray dog named GoGo and a lost little girl – culminating in their journey to find a home and become a family.“ Read the full review here: https://wowlit.org/on-line-publications/review/xvii-2/8/
Before I went shopping (and lemme tell you, Superstore‘s already jacked a bunch of their prices up, like JERKS. Safeway and Giant Tiger hadn‘t), Casey and I tackled the first few chapters of TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE. It‘s WORKING for me, friends. So many layers. I‘m sad I can‘t just read all day. #MFMarch
Feb #bookspin status since I'm not going to finish anything else this month. 4 read and 3 others with progress but not finished. Technically I did start House of Leaves but only got a few pages in before I had to set it aside for a library hold so I'm not counting it yet. I'll get to it... Eventually. Lol
@thearomaofbooks
I‘ve been reading Taiwan Travelogue this week! It imagines two women‘s lives during the Japanese rule of Taiwan and is is framed as a Japanese writer‘s rediscovered work in translation. I was interested to see this piece from the Asymptote Blog on Taiwanese literature in translation-
https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/02/19/taipei-travelogue-on-the-taipei...
pickSuch a lovely tribute to a mother and grandmother. Strength and perseverance at its best.
pickVery cute, but probably could‘ve been shorter. An enjoyable read, and I‘d be open to reading the other books in the series!
#bookspinbingo
#pop25 - book about a POC experiencing joy and not trauma
#jumpstart2025
#read2025
