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Last Night’s Reading: Illustrated Encounters with Extraordinary Authors by Kate Gavino

13 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Filipina/o American, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

New Yorker-by-way-of-Texas Kate Gavino goes to a lot of book readings in and around NYC's boroughs, "and even [in] New Jersey." While some might go seeking "an autograph ...

BOOK: My Autobiography transcribed by John Agard, illustrated by Neil Parker

12 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Biography, British, Caribbean, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Oh, oh, oh. What a perceptive, thoughtful, gorgeous gift are these pages. Yes, if books have a soul, this would be it – not to mention history, context, and universal appeal bound in as well. Guyanese British poet/playwright/children's writer John Agard 'transcribes' the story of Book over the centuries and...

Roger Is Reading a Book by Koen Van Biesen, translated by Laura Watkinson

11 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Children/Picture Books, European, Fiction, Translation

"SHHHH! Quiet." Because Roger is not only reading, he's reading a book. A book. Oh, for the love of books, this is the perfect book for book lovers of all ages. Yes, Roger is reading. Or trying to, anyway. He's got a spotlight illuminating the pages just so,...

The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz (based on the characters by Stieg Larsson), translated by George Goulding

10 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, European, Fiction, Swedish, Translation

Sweden's Stieg Larsson died of a heart attack in 2004, but his internationally famed, mismatched hacker/journalist duo are proving to be immortal. Yes, Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist are back in a fourth installment of what is now the Millennium series (a 'trilogy' no more) with a new writer, Swedish journalist and...

There Is No Right Way to Meditate and Other Lessons by Yumi Sakugawa

06 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

Google "meditation health benefits" pretty much any time and you'll always get news articles just a few hours old touting improved mind/body results. We've all seen the headlines, heard about the latest reports, and yet SOME of us remain stubbornly resistant, especially those concerned about...

The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin [in School Library Journal]

05 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Suzy and Franny met in a pool back when "making a friend, and having one, seem[ed] like the easiest thing in the world." But just before seventh grade, Franny – who could already swim underwater at age 5 – is dead by drowning. Smart, logical, full-of-facts...

Husky by Justin Sayre [in School Library Journal]

04 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Davis knows that every kid will "get boiled down to only one adjective…. It's decided. There. Permanent." Among his closest friends, Ellen is Mean, while Sophie is Pretty. Davis is "the Fat one, but everyone calls [him] husky." He hopes to escape his adjective, but being...

Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy [in School Library Journal]

03 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW "The word fat makes some people uncomfortable," Willowdean Dickson remarks. Called Dumplin’ by her mother, Will insists that fat is "not an insult." She's comfortably self-aware, buoyed by her late aunt, whom she still deeply mourns, and her picture-perfect best friend. When she introduces herself...

Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon [in School Library Journal]

02 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Caribbean American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Nicola Yoon’s superb debut begins and ends with books. Stories are how 18-year-old Madeline has survived with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency – "you know it as 'bubble baby disease’" – in her sanitized world that includes only her doctor mother and a nurse. She's been content...

The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984 by Riad Sattouf, translated by Sam Taylor

30 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Arab, European, French, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction

By 2, he knew he was "perfect." The toddler Riad with his "[l]ong, thick, silky, platinum-blonde hair," might have been "awake for only a few hours a day, but it was enough: when it came to living, [he] was a natural." And so begins the first...

The House that Sonabai Built by Vishakha Chanchani, photographs by Stephen P. Huyler

29 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Indian, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, South Asian

Married at 14 to a much older man, Sonabai spent the first decade of wifehood cooking and cleaning for her demanding in-laws. When the couple moved to a tiny village to be on their own, Sonabai had far less to do, but she became a prisoner in her...

My Name Is Arnaktauyok: The Life and Art of Germaine Arnaktauyok by Germaine Arnaktauyok and Gyu Oh

28 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Canadian, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

Her name alone is imbued with such meaningful history. She was called Arnaktauyok by her mother, in accordance with a request made by a blind woman who took care of her motherless mother, who insisted a baby with such a name "would have very good eyes." That...

Ira’s Shakespeare Dream by Glenda Armand, illustrated by Floyd Cooper

27 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Black/African American, British, Children/Picture Books, Nonfiction

When their own country wouldn't allow American artists of color the freedom of expression, many found stupendously appreciative audiences on distant shores, including such entertainment legends as dancer/singer Josephine Baker and actor Anna May Wong. Europe, and parts of Africa and Asia, welcomed expatriates-of-color throughout the...

Prison Boy by Sharon E. McKay

26 Oct, by SIBookDragon in British, Canadian, Fiction, Young Adult Readers

Canadian writer Sharon E. McKay is no stranger to children and war; her numerous books that have highlighted the horrendous effects of adult conflict on the world's youngest citizens have garnered international attention via lauds and awards. Her latest, "endorsed by Amnesty International Canada," as...

Fragments of Horror by Junji Ito, translated by Jocelyne Allen

23 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Short Stories, Translation, Young Adult Readers

So it wasn't even dusk yet and already the spine was tingling as soon as I opened the book. I kept looking around to make sure what was on the page hadn't somehow escaped and was about to pounce on me. With Halloween just over...

Once Upon a Time in Japan, translated by Roger Pulvers and Juliet Winters Carpenter, illustrated by Manami Yamada, Tomonori Taniguchi, Nao Takabatake, and Takumi Nishio

21 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Japanese, Middle Grade Readers, Short Stories, Translation

A "cheapskate" who longs for a wife who will work hard but never eat, a greedy young man who attempts to steal his brother's good fortune, a magic "hood" that allows the wearer to understand animals, a boy whose nap lasts three years, a wily fox who...

The Hundred Year Flood by Matthew Salesses [in Library Journal]

20 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean American, Repost

Lying in a Boston hospital with “rare brain damage,” Tee is working toward “reorienting him[self] to the world he’d never understood.” He is 22, a mixed-race Korean American adoptee, evacuated back home after a vicious attack in Prague, where he lived for nine months following 9/11....

Love Love by Sung J. Woo [in Library Journal]

19 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean American, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW At 40, Kevin Lee,  an almost-tennis-pro-turned-club-instructor, finds out he’s adopted when he tries to donate a kidney to his less-than-deserving widower father. The only clues to Kevin's identity are an unfinished letter from his late mother with a nude centerfold of his birthmother. Meanwhile, his younger...

Master Keaton (vols. 3-4) by Naoki Urasawa, story by Hokusei Katsushika and Takashi Nagasaki, translated and adapted by John Werry

16 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, British, British Asian, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Well, I've done it now – binge-read two volumes of my latest favorite manga obsession. I really was trying to space out the fabulous adventures of Taichi Hiraga Keaton, our British/Japanese hapa professor/insurance investigator (ha! of course, he's so much more than that!), but once begun...

The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness by Kyung-sook Shin, translated by Ha-yun Jung [in Library Journal]

15 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW Credited with revitalizing Korea’s publishing industry, Shin’s 2011 Please Look After Mom (the author’s debut in English) made this international powerhouse the first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize. Her latest, arriving stateside 20 years after its Korean publication, is part memoir,...

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