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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall

14 May, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Audio, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

If, at the end of reading (or, as in my case, listening to Fred Sanders read addictively out loud) this book, you are not completely and utterly convinced that human beings were born to run, I want to hear about it for sure. If you're...

Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace by Jen Cullerton Johnson, illustrated by Sonia Lynn Sadler

13 May, by SIBookDragon in African, Biography, Children/Picture Books, Nonfiction

For those of us of a certain age, we remember well that shampoo commercial ...

Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa [in San Francisco Chronicle]

13 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation

If you're looking for the quirky, original Yoko Ogawa, her latest, Hotel Iris, is probably not for you. Go back to your bookstore or library and check out the delightfully inimitable The Housekeeper and the Professor (2009), about a genius math professor with only an 80-minute...

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love by Xinran, translated by Nicky Harman

11 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, British Asian, Chinese, Nonfiction

Okay, so I'm not quite sure of the U.S. publication date for Xinran's latest ...

The Tale of Despereaux: being the story of a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering

10 May, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

Sometimes it takes me years to read certain books. Oftentimes, fear is involved. Sometimes when I like a book so very much, I'm afraid the next book by that author just might disappoint. So I do the denial thing and move said title deeper down...

Blood Hina: A Mas Arai Mystery by Naomi Hirahara

06 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese American

Every time I close a Mas Arai mystery (this is my third – I know, I need to catch up), and in spite of the sometimes gruesome body count, I have to admit I miss the crotchety old man with his Japanese phrases mixed in...

Let Me Help! | ¡Quiero Ayudar! by Alma Flor Ada, illustrated by Angela Domínguez

05 May, by SIBookDragon in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Latina/o/x

Happy Cinco de Mayo from Perico and his human family! While everyone busily prepares for the big picnic and festivities on the rented barge that will float down the San Antonio River, Perico the parrot looks for ways he can help, too. But Grandmother and Aunt...

Author Interview: Sonya Chung [in Bookslut]

04 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Repost

By the time I actually met Sonya Chung, debut novelist of Long for This World, which hit shelves in March, I was already a groupie. Long was one of those suddenly-surprising-out-of-nowhere books that make you gasp. A publicist sent it to me initially and it...

Kingyo Used Books (vol. 1) by Seimu Yoshizaki, translated by Adrienne Weber

03 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Having discovered manga late in life, I seem to be making up for lost time ...

Facts for Visitors: Poems by Srikanth Reddy

02 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Indian American, Poetry, South Asian American

Confession: I got to hang out twice with Srikanth – otherwise known as "Chicu" – Reddy two days in a row last weekend, first for the Asian American Literary Review's "8: A Symposium," and then for an Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival literary panel. Even though my...

Colibrí by Ann Cameron

01 May, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Latin American, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

Even though "Uncle" calls her Rosa Garcia, Tzunun Chumil knows her real Mayan name, and that in Spanish, Tzunun is 'colibrí,' which means "hummingbird." She knows somewhere that she has a mother and father that once loved her very much, that she lived a happy...

Yasmin’s Hammer by Ann Malaspina, illustrated by Doug Chayka

29 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Bangladeshi, Children/Picture Books, Fiction

Inspired by two real children in Dhaka whom Ann Malaspina met on her travels through South Asia, Yasmin's Hammer is yet more proof for the need to educate girls throughout the world. When a cyclone destroys their home village "by a lazy river," two sisters – Mita and...

MIXED: Portraits of Multicultural America by Kip Fulbeck, foreword by Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng, afterword by Cher

28 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Children/Picture Books, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

What a perfect companion text to Kip Fulbeck's part asian • 100% hapa, his previous title for Chronicle Books ...

Map of the Invisible World by Tash Aw [in Bloomsbury Review]

24 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, British Asian, Fiction, Malaysian, Repost, Southeast Asian

Five years ago, Taipei-born Malaysian British Tash Aw landed in the media spotlight with The Harmony Silk Factory, complete with public speculations about an allegedly enormous debut advance. Decorated with multiple important prizes, including Commonwealth and Whitbread first novel awards, Aw’s Factory earned him both...

Foiled by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Mike Cavallaro

21 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

Warning: I can't find any promises of a volume 2 (or 3, 4, or more!) anywhere in, on, or around this book. Nothing in the publicist's note, either! Uh-oh ...

Yarn: Remembering the Way Home by Kyoko Mori

19 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Japanese, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction

This weekend, I get to meet Kyoko Mori in livetime [I'm scheduled to moderate an Asian American literary panel on Sunday morning as part of the first-ever Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival, sponsored by the brand-new Asian American Literary Review). Anyone can join me,...

Smile by Raina Telgemeier, with color by Stephanie Yue

18 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction

For anyone and everyone who has or knows a middle-grader with braces (or about to get braces), this is the book of choice to share. "I've been telling people about what happened to my teeth ever since I knocked them out in sixth grade," writes...

The Adventures of Jack Lime by James Leck

17 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

Jack Lime is a self-described "detective, a private investigator, a gumshoe." He's also a new student at Iona High School, who landed mid-9th grade in the ultra-planned, exclusive community from the City of Angels to live with his grandmother after the tragic death of his...

The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn, illustrated by Ruth E. Harper and Nancy M. Leak

16 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

It's no wonder that this kiddie classic by longtime DC-area local Audrey Penn has sold some 4.5 million copies! I can proudly say I've added more than a few copies to that total, as it's one of those incredibly appropriate stories for an experience that every...

Chester Raccoon and the Acorn Full of Memories by Audrey Penn, illustrated by Barbara L. Gibson