Friendship Archives - Page 30 of 113

Notes on a Shipwreck: A Story of Refugees, Borders, and Hope by Davide Enia, translated by Antony Shugaar [in Christian Science Monitor]

08 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, European, Italian, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost

Whom to save, whom to let perish? The rescuers of refugees washing up on the Italian island of Lampedusa face an impossible choice, as memoirist and playwright Davide Enia describes in Notes on a Shipwreck: A Story of Refugees, Borders, and Hope “Calculate. It’s all you can...

Operatic by Kyo Maclear, illustrated by Byron Eggenschwiler [in Shelf Awareness]

07 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

Mr. K is one of those remarkable teachers who is memorable for what he's not: "He doesn't act like it's his job to shape [students] into considerate and well-behaved individuals who'll fit harmoniously with the rest of society." His final assignment for his middle-school music...

His Favorites by Kate Walbert [in Booklist]

01 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

Steely and controlled, narrator Gabra Zackman embodies a young woman’s harrowing crisis, ensuring not a single moment of the brief production can be ignored. At 15, Jo’s unremarkable life as just another teen in her suburban Maryland town is forever shattered when she kills her best friend...

That Time I Loved You by Carrianne Leung + Author Interview [in Bloom]

26 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories, Young Adult Readers

“It is always funny to me when I show up to readings and people expect me to be my characters”: Q&A with Carrianne Leung She arrived in Toronto at age 6, when her family immigrated from Hong Kong in the mid-1970s. At 7, they moved to...

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing [The Carls, Book 1] by Hank Green [in Booklist]

20 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Chinese American, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Neither Green brother is untouched by fame. The elder is that John Green. Hank, famous already as half of YouTube’s multimillion-subscribed “Vlogbrothers,” ascends the bestsellers’ platform with this novel debut, in which he inarguably writes what he knows: social-media-fueled fame. Audio seems an ideal format for Green’s media-savvy...

Trust Exercise by Susan Choi [in Booklist]

18 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean American, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW “That whole thing about fiction not being the truth is a lie,” one character admonishes another in Susan Choi’s fifth, and finest, novel. Returning to the multi-layered teacher-student power struggles seared into My Education (2013), Choi’s Trust Exercise should immediately put readers on alert: it will appear...

Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman [in Library Journal]

12 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW Elliot Ackerman’s (2017 National Book Award finalist for Dark at the Crossing) latest might be just three-and-a-half hours long, but the dramatic effects will surely last longer. MacLeod Andrews – his voice slightly growly, controlled enough as if control is necessary – narrates from...

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas [in Library Journal]

11 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Filipina/o American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian American

"After twenty-five years of living illegally in a county that does not consider me one of its own, this book is the closest thing I have to freedom." When Pulitzer Prize-winning Jose Antonio Vargas declared his undocumented status in 2011, Bill O'Reilly labeled him "the...

Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram [in Booklist]

08 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Iranian, Iranian American, Persian, Persian American, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Sixteen-year-old loner Darius Kellner is an easy target at his Portland, Oregon, high school. He’s clinically depressed, a diagnosis he shares with his “Teutonic Übermensch” father. His nurturing comes mostly from his Iranian immigrant mother, and he’s close to his 8-year-old sister. For all that,...

This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga [in Booklist]

06 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Audio, Fiction, Repost

Of Dangarembga’s award-winning, semi-autobiographical Tambudzai Sigauke trilogy, only this finale gets an audio adaptation. Tambu struggled to be educated amid Zimbabwe’s decades-long civil war in Nervous Conditions (winner of the 1989 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize) and survived a convent education in The Book of Not (2006). Here, Tambu is a not-so-young...

That Time I Loved You: Stories by Carrianne Leung [in Library Journal]

29 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Toronto’s suburban Scarborough becomes home to diverse families ready to build a neighborhood together. Initially, everyone invited everyone else to “planned things like fireworks and barbecues,” observes 11-year-old June – the only daughter of Hong Kong Chinese immigrants – until “people decided who their...

Hands Up! by Breanna J. McDaniel, illustrated by Shane W. Evans [in Shelf Awareness]

28 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW "Greet the sun, bold and bright! Tiny hands up!" In star-studded sleeves, two raised brown arms exuberantly face the golden, warming rays, ready to start a new day filled with discovery, growth and, of course, much fun. Mommy and Daddy join the radiant...

Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution by Helen Zia [in Christian Science Monitor]

24 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Nonfiction, Repost

Last Boat Out of Shanghai has four stories at once personal and universal As the child of two refugees, Helen Zia can speak to the effects of displacement, separation, and the personal costs of survival, adaptation, and reinvention. As an advocate for Asian American and other minority communities,...

Blame This on the Boogie by Rina Ayuyang [in Booklist]

23 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Filipina/o American, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian American, Young Adult Readers

"Beyond this door,” Rina Ayuyang warns as she guides readers to her suburban Pittsburgh childhood home, “lies a story of dread and woe, despair and sadness.” But no, turn the page, and amid technicolor walls, carpets, and toys strewn everywhere, she admits, “I’m kidding. It’s...

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel [in Booklist]

21 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW For those of us in need of a few hours of joyful catharsis, listen up. Despite a narrative driven by impending separation, the gratifying delight is well worth the tears. Narrator George Blagden effortlessly embodies this charming man-and-beast love story, so guilelessly gentle as...

Librarians Unite! 12 Tales of Librarian Badassery [in The Booklist Reader]

18 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Arab, British, European, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Korean, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost, Short Stories, Translation

In just over a week, Seattle’s population will temporarily expand with tens of thousands of librarians (and other literary obsessives). Talk about a convergence of brains, guts, dedication, faith – and unconditional love of knowledge! Because that’s what it takes to be a librarian in...

The Chancellor and the Citadel by Maria Capelle Frantz [in Booklist]

16 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

“The world’s falling apart,” young Olive sighs under a starry sky. “Some think it’s coming together,” the chancellor reminds her as she guides Olive home through the forest, subduing an angry beast midway. Cloaked in layers, her face obscured in hooded darkness, the chancellor protects...

I Am God by Giacomo Sartori, translated by Frederika Randall [in Booklist]

15 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Italian, Repost, Translation

“I myself am astonished at what’s happening to me,” God – yes, that God – confesses. “I’m the same ...

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See [in Booklist]

14 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Korean, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW They meet at age 7. Young-sook and her mother are working their garden; Mi-ja crouches among the sweet-potato plants, desperate to eat. They are on Korea’s Jeju Island, “known for its Three Abundances of wind, stones, and women, it was also acknowledged for lacking...

Lu [Track series: Book 4] by Jason Reynolds [in School Library Journal]

12 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

The final title in two-time National Book Award-nominated Jason Reynolds’ popular Track tetralogy (Ghost, Patina, Sunny, Lu) is the third of the series voiced by the author’s childhood friend and anointed collaborator Guy Lockard. Meet “Lucky Lu,” “Lookie Lu,” “Lu the Lightning Bolt,” who’s co-captain...

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