#CoverLove Day 26: #Angel - the novel I brought while husband and I were in Sibiu, Romania last year. Paired with the city‘s assorted cheeses and cold cuts.
#CoverLove Day 24: Some #DarkBlue in this cover - paired with our colorful mocktails: frozen virgin daiquiri for moi (forest berries, lime juice and honey), virgin mojito for husband (fresh mint, lemon juice, and sugar syrup), and virgin colada for our college kid (coconut cream, pineapple juice and brown sugar).🍹🍹🍹All delish by the way. 💕
#CoverLove Day 20: The #Wheel(s) of a quaint reading cart right here. Recent book find via Libby. Review is forthcoming. 📚📚📚
#CoverLove Day 19: #Chair(s) in this bestselling series - I finally caved and bought them all. Will probably read the first book with college kid in our book club of two this summer. I hope it lives up to the hype. Have you read these titles yet? Do share with me some of your thoughts.
#CoverLove Day 18: The most adorable #Purple cover in this Filipino American picturebook that I look forward to featuring very soon.
#PoetryMatters Day 15: #Unused
Thanks to a Gift Article, I was able to get into the arguably 100 best books of the 21st century (very Western-centric, as expected - hardly any Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern, Aussie, African novels, which again is the crux as to why most things are going wrong with the world). Among the 13 I plan to read - most are in my bookshelves, save for around five titles I have yet to find. Still much to go with my reading. How about you?
#CoverLove Day 14: Kairos by the light of a #Lamp along with dessert that consists of churros with banana and almonds and chocolate sauce dipped in affogato. Dessert while in Bandung, Indonesia last week.
#CoverLove Day 12: #Silver - paired with brown cheese and crunchy chili nuts for Norway and hot tea in my Frida Kahlo mug. 💕
#CoverLove Day 11: there is #Gold in this cover of the first book in the Buru quartet that I managed to hunt down while I was in Bandung, Indonesia last week.
#CoverLove Day 10: #Green. I inherited a fair number of climate-change-themed, ecojustice books from a friend who has left our university to teach at Indiana in the fall. Will miss him but grateful to have his books for safekeeping.
#CoverLove Day 9: Holding up Wretched Of The Earth (which I was searching for) while wearing my sturdy #Boots while at Daunt Bookstore in London last year.
#CoverLove Day 8: #Hearts or one heart, that is - in this sensitively told story about emotional abuse and possession in a relationship. Picturebooks are so complex nowadays. A librarian friend shared this with me recently for which I am grateful. 💕💕💕
#CoverLove Day 7: #Brown is this book cover for a title inherited from a friend who just left our university. Posting a day early since traveling tomorrow back home to Abu Dhabi from Jakarta. ✈️🧳🛬
#CoverLove Day 6: #Yellow to somekinda-orange in Kairos - taken with a photo of my mocktail here in Bandung with some kind of lychee. 💕
#CoverLove Day 5: #Pink is resistance. Found on Libby. Review is forthcoming. Perfect for GatheringBooks‘ efforts to decolonize bookshelves. 💕
#CoverLove Day 4: lots of #Leaves in ecojustice education - one of the many books left to me for safekeeping by a colleague/friend who has left our university in the Emirates to teach at Indiana University.
pick#CoverLove Day 3: #Dots can only mean Yayoi Kusama. Fats reviewed this picturebook biography a few years back - and she included photos from Kusama‘s exhibit in Cleveland Ohio where she lives. 🔴⚫️🔵⚪️ Her feature here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-j8e
#CoverLove Day 2: #Black with a touch of orange. Finished reading our #CampLitsy24 book club pick for July while in the plane from Dubai-Doha enroute to Jakarta a few days ago. Cannot wait to discuss this!
One of the four lectures I am doing here in Bandung, Indonesia. What a privilege to be able to travel to different parts of the world to talk about my favourite things. The effusive and warm welcome is quite unforgettable.
#CoverLove Day 1: #Red is this book that I inherited from a good friend and colleague who has left our university to teach at Indiana University this coming fall. We will miss him dearly. I got several boxes of books from him - all awesome! Here‘s my post about the rest of the titles: https://wp.me/pDlzr-qzW
#SummerSouls Day 30: #Waves - posting a day early since traveling to Bandung Indonesia for a Visiting Professor invite. 💕
#SummerSouls Day 28: #Rollercoaster romance-friends-lovers kind of vibe in our book club pick for June/July with college kid who is home from Seattle. Dexter is definitely not endearing himself to me one third into the novel that our 22 year old and I are reading aloud. We read one chapter a day.
#SummerSouls Day 27: #Perfect poem for 14 year old Snickers who passed away onto the rainbow bridge last week - the very first dog I have ever loved.
pick#SummerSouls Day 24: This beautiful book tells you when it is summer: “When #insects billow black from the trees, and the sun slips into an orange dream.
This is how I know summer.”
The entire picturebook is a testament to this wide-eyed attention to the little details found in the passing of the seasons. As Mary Oliver noted: “Attention is the beginning of devotion.” My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-qnb
