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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling

19 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Indian American, Memoir, Nonfiction, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers

Confession: I've actually never seen The Mindy Project; I've never watched an episode of The Office (for which Kaling was a writer and star for some eight seasons). Yes, I live under a rock (surrounded by a lot of books). But I have ventured out enough to have seen Kaling in...

In the Body of the World by Eve Ensler

11 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Audio, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction

To not stick this one in your ears would be such the missed opportunity. At just over four hours, this is undoubtedly longer than your usual theater performance, but with Eve Ensler herself so passionately narrating, her memoir transforms into a spectacular aural extravaganza. At 57, the woman...

Lila by Marilynne Robinson

06 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

In 2004, Gilead gave voice to the aging Reverend John Ames, who recognizes he will not live to see his 7-year-old son grow up and so creates an epistolary record of all that he will never be able to share with his boy. Four years later, Home featured...

She Weeps Each Time You’re Born by Quan Barry [in Library Journal]

04 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American

*STARRED REVIEW In 2001, on an evening with a full moon –when Asian folklore says a rabbit appears on the lunar surface – Amy Quan searches for a woman in Vietnam, "where I was born in the same year as her, our lives diametrically opposite." The...

Adrian and the Tree of Secrets by Hubert, illustrated by Marie Caillou, translated by David Homel

31 Oct, by SIBookDragon in European, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Bespectacled, sweater-vested, and "as shiny as a new penny," Adrian is the quiet nerd who too often gets bullied at school. At home, his mother keeps him on a tight leash, even as he is clearly trying to pull away. His father is never mentioned. His...

The Secret Place [Dublin Murder Squad 5] by Tana French

22 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, European, Fiction, Irish

"One road and two extra-high walls" separate St. Kilda's and St. Colm's, two privileged, private schools for girls and boys, respectively. Christopher Harper, 16, of St. Colm's is found dead on the grounds of St. Kilda's. Over the next year, his murder remains unsolved ...

The Possibilities by Kaui Hart Hemmings

20 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Hawaiian, Nonethnic-specific

So as not to prolong the disappointment and annoyance, I'm going to try to keep this short. I actually skip posting about duds more often than not because the energy feels so wasted, but this title has history: it was attached to a 'how-many-of-these-have-you-read?"-query from a...

The Whispering Town by Jennifer Elvgren, illustrated by Fabio Santomauro

14 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, European, Jewish, Nonfiction

Sometimes, whispers can speak more loudly than any shouts and screams ...

Gustave by Rémy Simard, illustrated by Pierre Pratt, translated by Shelley Tanaka

12 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

As much as Gustave tends toward dark (both in illustrations and initial narrative content), it's even more so about hope ...

Joseph Fipps by Nadine Robert, illustrated by Geneviève Godbout, translated by Claudia Z. Bedrick

11 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, European, Fiction, Translation

Like many 5-year-olds, Joseph Fipps is a never-resting ball of energy. Which means things like potted plants, wall hangings, ladders, and anything else in the way of his adventures might not necessarily remain intact. His mother calls him Gremlin for all his "kind of silly" bumps...

Even More Bad Parenting Advice by Guy Delisle, translated by Helge Dascher

10 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Canadian, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Translation

Even when we old folks have only the noblest intentions, our parenting skills don't always live up to the 'skill' part, ahem. Canadian French comic master Guy Delisle humorously mines his own follies, and gives us the perfect opportunity to keep laughing with him, and even more...

The Distance Between Us: A Memoir by Reyna Grande

08 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Latin American, Latina/o/x, Memoir, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

She was left at age 2 by her father, then at 4 watched her mother go; both parents braved the border into "El Otro Lado" (The Other Side) to make enough American dollars to reunite the family in their dream house someday. The youngest of three children, Reyna...

Mambo in Chinatown by Jean Kwok

02 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese American, Fiction

Every once in a while, a pretty-much-happily-after novel is just what the heart needs. The ears get a treat here, too, if you choose to go aural, as narrator Angela Lin emotes with just enough angst blended with the growing assurance of fulfilling self-discovery. Like...

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...

Map of Betrayal by Ha Jin [in Library Journal]

24 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW CIA agent Gary Shang was convicted of spying for China yet called himself "a patriot of both the United States and China." Decades after Gary's death, Lilian, his only child with his American wife, unexpectedly inherits his diary from his longtime mistress and discovers...

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...

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