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#GratefulReads Day 21: While I have forgotten practically all the books I was required to read (including Canterbury Tales), this one #ReadInHighSchool is an unforgettable read.
#GratefulReads Day 21: While I have forgotten practically all the books I was required to read (including Canterbury Tales), this one #ReadInHighSchool is an unforgettable read.
so-so#Movember Day 21: It was interesting to hear a father‘s often-self-deprecating, funny-but-tragic account of what it‘s like to raise a young child with autism – especially as he was “chucked out” of the house (yes, it‘s a very British novel) by his wife who feels that he is often “absent” even when he is around. #PapaDontPreach. My review of this memoir here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-eRR
#GratefulReads Day 20: While I have read quite a few Dickens, being a huge fan, these are two that fit into the category of #ClassicYouHaventRead. I think I now own several of his classic novels that I wish to get to, hopefully soon. 😭😂📚📚📚
#Movember Day 20: I bought #Revolver along with a whole box of bookses during the Page One Warehouse sale in Singapore back in 2012. Along with the other book photographed here, I haven‘t read it yet. Here is the rest of my book loot - most of which I haven‘t had a chance to read yet. Ah. Such is the story of our lives. My book hunting post: https://wp.me/pDlzr-2Dr
#QuotsyNov19 Day 19: #Men
#GratefulReads Day 19: This is definitely a case of #ClassicYouEnjoyed. Special shout out to #ScreamsByMail book club member @ephemeralwaltz for always choosing classic horror reads!
pick#Movember Day 19: Mr Wayne‘s #Masterpiece is another picturebook memoir from Patricia Polacco. The narrative was coherent, tightly-woven, and presented with little drama and frills, jumping right into the core of the anxiety as Patricia found something within her that allowed her to transcend her fear of performing and public speaking. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-8Hf
#GratefulReads Day 18: Practically all the titles in my shelves belong to the category of #BeenOnYourTBRTooLong. 😭😂🤣📚📚📚
pick#Movember Day 18: Fats quoted from the book in her review of this picturebook biography: “One night, after a full moon, the corals begin to spawn—releasing first one, then millions of tiny lives—until the waters swirl like a snow globe… If one is lucky, it lands in a place where it can grow. This one will begin a coral reef.” #LuckyStar indeed. Her full review here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-kg8
pan#GratefulReads Day 17: #ThoughtYouWouldLikeButDidnt. The whole book felt more like a poetry lecture, which felt prescriptive for me, as the author interpreted each poem‘s meaning, and it seemed like the only possible truth that can be discerned from the poem. Perhaps that was not the author‘s intention, but as a reader I felt like I was being lectured at, rather than being invited in to a reading experience. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-l4F
pick#Movember Day 17: Fats‘ review: “Kind of Coping is divided into six major chapters, but every page contains a glimpse on Wilson‘s life, her thoughts, feelings, perception, and her ways of dealing with anxiety. I know people who have anxiety and could imagine them in Wilson‘s shoes. The vignettes may seem repetitive, but it only goes to show how anxiety can manifest itself in different situations.” #TrueBlue indeed. Review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-kY1
pick#GratefulReads Day 16: This was a case of #ThoughtYouWouldntLikeButDid. This is the perfect poolside read: plot-driven, lots of funny dialogue, story-within-a-story format, death, mystery, and erotic stories. I am glad that this is my first Singapore read for #WomenReadWomen2019. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-kpZ
so-so#Movember Day 16: I really enjoyed how much of the mischievians here are super gross enough to entice even the most reluctant reader to stick through the text that is so much fun. I have a feeling William Joyce cracked himself up doing this book – I loved the wordplay, the refreshing humour, the absurdities that are #borderline credible, even. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-e85
I feel like my heart is being torn out of my chest as I read one powerful essay after another. So much grief, it covers the world. Calamari especially prepared by the husband as I resist reading and pulled back yet again by the drumbeat of so much pain: “Arab Women Reporting From The Arab World.” Why is this book not receiving all the awards yet????
pick#GratefulReads Day 15: Fats shared a list of #BannedBook(s) a few years back and yes it includes these two classics: one because the boy‘s private parts are shown and the other because of “homosexual seduction” and “early Marxism.” More here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-6sh
#Movember Day 15: Fats featured this poem/poet for Poetry Friday and it does contain #Frozen dough blobs - among other things. Her full post here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-gga
#GratefulReads Day 13: This is, hands down, my #FavoriteBookToMovieAdaptation. Did not enjoy The Hobbit 3-part film adaptation as much, though.
pick#Movember Day 14: It is #HumanNature to want to reach for the stars, or the moon - ala Buzz Aldrin. What struck me the most were little anecdotes that demonstrated young Buzz‘s tenacity. One of which can be seen in the photo shown above. Buzz would rather hang tight to his bucket of stones and drown, than give any of his collection away to his friend who pushed him off the dock. He was also a man of action. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-8ye
#GratefulReads Day 13: Almost #ReadInOneSitting but more like several as I waited for my flight from Albuquerque to New York and while waiting for my flight from NY to Dubai, and finally finished it while sitting on the airplane, the last leg of my trip back to the Middle East. I think I managed to finish four books while on this trip, so not too shabby, I think.
pick#Movember Day 13: LeBox equates peace with an offered muffin, an umbrella in the rain, a trip to the beach, kind words you say to a sibling, a kiss on the cheek. There is also an invitation to be grateful for everyday little things such as “light through a leaf, a dragonfly‘s wings” just #LikeAPrayer. It also shows what is on the other side of peace and how one is able to find comfort during those times. https://wp.me/pDlzr-a18
#GratefulReads Day 12: Not really #AShortStory but more like essays/vignettes. This is a #BlameItOnLitsy title or to be more precise #BlameitOnReggie. @Reggie 🤣😂🧚🏼♀️
pick#Movember Day 12: Fats has featured another one of Maggie Smith‘s poem for Poetry Friday entitled #Future. Full post here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-jIp
Posting earlier than usual since I am in between flights on my way back to my quaint provincial little town in the Middle East.
Killing time before my flight back to the Middle East via New York. #WomenReadWomen2019
Mango tea paired with dangerous essays from witchy women.
pick#GratefulReads Day 11: This thin novella has #CharacterYouHateToLove. A single mother and her young son have just moved to a small, seemingly-remote town in Norway where people seem to know everybody else. The boy who is about to celebrate his 9th birthday is convinced that his mother has something special planned out for him; while the mother has seemed to have completely forgotten about it. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-kS1
pick#Movember Day 11: When Poet Laureate Margarita Engle became a hippie runaway in her younger years, she did meet a lot of #BeautifulStranger(s), some insidiously so. It is to Margarita‘s credit that she has indeed created this timescape – as she graciously permits us to bear witness to her turbulent teenage years, and her not-so-easy transformation into being the beautiful and kind woman that she is now. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-knp
#QuotsyNov19 Day 10: #Cycle
One of my absolute fave series of all time. Not sure how the Netflix version is holding up tho. First few episodes were snooze-inducing for me and my daughter. 😭
#GratefulReads Day 10: John Green has a knack of writing #CharacterYouLoveToHate. Make that plural. True story. But again, maybe it‘s just me. Hehehe.
pick#Movember Day 10: #GhostTown reminded me of this nonfiction book. Gone Missing presents snapshots of unsolved disappearances either at sea, lighthouses, or people who simply vanished seemingly from thin air. This one has a little bit of the strange and weird embedded into it, as can be seen in the case of David Lang in 1880 who disappeared in mid-step in full view of several people. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-azC
#GratefulReads Day 9: #BookAndSnack - more like book and meal, really. 🤣😂 @Reggie I hope you find the stories in this collection as delightfully surreal with just the right dab of macabre as I did.
pick#Movember Day 9: #LaIslaBonita reminded me of this Caldecott Medal book. Fats‘ review: the book “is a beautiful tribute to lighthouses and lighthouse keepers around the world. Written in verse, the book portrays the duties of a lighthouse keeper: tending the light from sunrise to sunset, sounding the signal to warn ships when it‘s too foggy, doing household chores, meticulously recording what happens each day in a logbook.” https://wp.me/pDlzr-k0t
Calling #HorrorPostalBookClub #ScreamsByMail people - Abu Dhabi meets Albuquerque today. So thrilled to have finally met @Reggie after how many years chatting here in Litsy and through our reading journals via the book club. Thank you for a very lovely afternoon, for bringing me to this gorgeous bookstore, and the sumptuous dinner, and the books!! This girl came home very happy and loaded with bookses!!
#QuotsyNov19 Day 8: #Privilege
#GratefulReads Day 8: My #BookAndBeverage offering today is this novel from Ecuador and cortado from the coffeeshop immediately below the loft where I am staying here in Albuquerque. Their stirrer is an uncooked pasta strip - very organic.
pick#Movember Day 8: The brazen women featured in this graphic memoir all led their lives with a #ExpressYourself mentality. From Ndongo and Matamba to the Dominican Republic, Bagieu represented diverse women fearlessly in a way that has not been done before. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-jHI
#GratefulReads Day 7: My #FavoriteBookishItem will have to be bookmarks. Here are the bookmarks my husband helped me create/print out for my #ScreamsByMail #HorrorPostalBookClub. :)
pick#Movember Day 7: The #Iconic Jacqueline Kennedy fighting to save an American Icon, the Grand Central Station in NY in this fab nonfiction picturebook. Reading about clear, decisive, unyielding voices such as this woman‘s is empowering. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-kjK
