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Author Interview: Manjushree Thapa [in Bookslut]

06 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Nepali, Nepali American, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian, South Asian American

Blame it on family, on the country-of-residence-at-the-moment, on the tumultuous politics of her motherland of Nepal, but certainly Manjushree Thapa has lived a life in flux, repeatedly adjusting to unpredictability. Born in Kathmandu, she moved as a toddler to Canada (young enough to acquire English...

The Isobel Journal: Just a Girl from Where Nothing Really Happens by Isobel Harrop

03 Oct, by SIBookDragon in British, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

The titular Isobel – the 18-at-the-time-of-publication author here – knows how to make the eponymous 'nothing' into quite the entertaining 'something.' Although she grew up "squished somewhere between Manchester and Liverpool," she's now living somewhere "down in the South of England ...

Peach Girl by Raymond Nakamura, illustrated by Rebecca Bender

01 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Canadian Asian Pacific American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Japanese American

Lest you're tempted to dismiss this as just another gender-bender version of a familiar tale, banish that thought immediately! Yes, our hero bursts forth from a peach to become the child of an until-then childless older couple, and yes, her name is Momoko – literally...

Fire with Fire [Burn for Burn Trilogy 2] by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian

29 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Korean American, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Even more than Reeve who is lying in a hospital bed – his intended college football career probably shattered – Lillia, Kat, and Mary are the ones who need to recover from the shocker that was Homecoming. Guilt, for now, is as paralyzing as any cast...

In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang

26 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

I'm too much of a Luddite to know much about online gaming and avatars and such, but even a techno-backwards oldster like me can appreciate this feisty, original celebration of girl power. [Thankfully, the introduction offers just the right overview you'll need to understand enough.]...

My Heart Is Laughing by Rose Lagercrantz, illustrated by Eva Eriksson, translated by Julia Marshall

23 Sep, by SIBookDragon in European, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Swedish, Translation

Oh, what delight ...

Five, Six, Seven, Nate! by Tim Federle

21 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

For all the challenges he survived in Better Nate than Ever, Nate Foster is now just five weeks from making his Broadway debut. So he'll be going on as Alien Number Seven in a single-word part, but he's also the second understudy for the titular...

Jellaby: The Lost Monster and Jellaby: Monster in the City by Kean Soo, foreword by Kazu Kibuishi (Lost) and Raina Telgemeier (City)

19 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers

While her classmates are book reporting on Dr. Seuss, Portia chooses more precocious fare: "Reason and Emotion: Classical and Romantic Philosophies in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia"! So maybe exploring "contrast between logic and emotion" doesn't exactly endear her to the other 10-year-old kids. And even if the teacher recognizes...

I Called Him Necktie by Milena Michiko Flašar, translated by Sheila Dickie

18 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese, Translation

To better understand this elliptical, exceptional novel, allow me to elucidate a growing cultural phenomena trapping Japanese young people. According to a glossary entry at novel's end, some 100,000 to 320,000 hikikomori exist in Japan. They are self-made prisoners in their parents' home, usually hidden...

brown girl dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

17 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Poetry, Verse Novel/Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

Not to play favorites, but since the 2014 National Book Awards Longlist For Young People’s Literature was announced earlier this week, I'm putting my bet on Jacqueline Woodson’s childhood memoir-in-verse, brown girl dreaming, to not only to make the shortlist (announced October 15), but go all the...

Shoplifter by Michael Cho

12 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Korean American

Aaarrrggghhh! These days, I seem to be in the wrong place all the time. Lucky DC-area folks: Do NOT NOT NOT miss Canadian Korean graphic artist Michael Cho at SPX 2014: Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland, tomorrow and Sunday, September 13 and 14, 2014. Make your...

The Lion and the Bird by Marianne Dubuc, translated by Claudia Z. Bedrick

11 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Translation

Fall is upon us once again, and Lion is out in his garden, raking leaves, turning soil, getting ready for the winter ahead. "Oh! Poor little thing!" he notices: Bird has fallen from the sky, his wing broken. Bandaged and revived, Bird watches as his flock...

Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian

07 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Armenian American, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Here's another title you might consider choosing to stick in your ears: 1. because this, Chris Bohjalian’s latest, is read by his own daughter, Grace Experience Blewer, who he credits as "instrumental in the creation of [his protagonist's] voice," who taught him "a lot – I...

Larry and Friends created and illustrated by Carla Torres, story by Nat Jaspar

06 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Latina/o/x, South American

Happy, happy to Larry who's celebrating his birthday. He's not so thrilled about having "to work like a dog" – even though that's exactly what he is – to prepare for his natal fest, but he's so "very excited" that all his friends are coming. Being a native...

Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival by Marcel Prins & Peter Henk Steenhuis, translated by Laura Watkinson

01 Sep, by SIBookDragon in European, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Anne Frank, the world's most famous hidden child during the Holocaust, was one of 28,000 Jews in the Netherlands alone who went into hiding. She was one of 12,000 who were betrayed and didn't survive. Among the 16,000 who lived, was award-winning filmmaker and cameraman...

I Remember Beirut by Zeina Abirached, translated by Edward Gauvin

29 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Lebanese, Memoir, Middle Eastern, Nonfiction, Translation, Young Adult Readers

As in my post for Beirut’s preceding, award-winning companion title, A Game for Swallows, I find I need to start at book's end. "I remember Georges Perec!" the final image announces. Initially seeming to be unrelated to the rest of the book, the unexpected homage to the experimental...

Burn for Burn [Burn for Burn Trilogy 1] by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian

26 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Korean American, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

The first of a trilogy (#3 debuts next month; I'm arriving on Jar Island a little late), Burn is inarguably shocking, but it definitely sets the stage for more chills to come. Mary, who left Jar Island in 7th grade, is back in 11th completely transformed. Lillia, once...

The Land of Steady Habits by Ted Thompson

24 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

As a young man, Anders Hill was rather a rebel, abandoning his stifling southern roots, estranging himself from his acerbic father by forsaking Duke University for an exclusive New England college. There he fell in love with his roommate's girlfriend who would become his wife. Becoming a husband, then...

I Am China by Xiaolu Guo [in Library Journal]

18 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, British, British Asian, Chinese, Fiction, Repost

London-based Xiaolu Guo’s third novel in English (she published six prior in China) opens with a desperate love letter-in-transit "from a place I cannot tell you about yet…when I am safe I will be able to let you know where I am." Over almost 400...

Friends by Mies van Hout

17 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Children/Picture Books, European, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Translation

Oh, oh, oh ...

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