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Love for Imperfect Things: How to Be Kind and Forgiving Toward Yourself and Others by Haemin Sunim, translated by Deborah Smith and Haemin Sunim [in Booklist]

09 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Korean, Nonfiction, Repost, Translation, Young Adult Readers

He’s been called “Twitter Monk” and “mega-Monk” for his million-plus followers. That his Berkeley/Harvard Divinity Master’s/Princeton PhD-pedigree plus seven years professor-ing at Hampshire College led him to become a world-famous Buddhist monk seems an unlikely path. Yet his success only spreads with Imperfect, his follow-up to...

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi [in Booklist]

23 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW “I used to be a racist most of the time,” insists Ibram X. Kendi, a surprising revelation from 2016’s winner for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (Stamped from the Beginning). “The opposite of ‘racist’ isn’t ‘not racist,’” he explains. “It is ‘antiracist’...

Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration by Bryan Caplan, illustrated by Zach Weinersmith [in Booklist]

04 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Borders, walls, detention camps, caged children ...

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, adapted and illustrated by Kristina Gehrmann, translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger [in Shelf Awareness]

27 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Despite the gruesome images depicting the workings of Chicago slaughterhouses and meatpacking factories in the late 19th century and into the early 20th century, Kristina Gehrmann's graphic adaptation is a surprisingly gentler, kinder read than Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel. Credited with inciting the public outcry...

A Walking Life: Reclaiming Our Health and Our Freedom One Step at a Time by Antonia Malchik [in Booklist]

13 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost

C’mon: grab that headset, hit play, get out, and let Antonia Malchik and Eliza Foss convince you why you should be walking. Foss is an ideally persuasive companion to journalist Malchik, whose debut title proves how “walking is essential to our physical health and creativity,...

The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Yang [in Booklist]

22 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Korean American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

His voice isn’t quite growling, but David Shih has perfected the notable ability to suggest deep, underlying anger without crossing into full-blown fury. That control makes him Wesley Yang’s ideal conduit in this debut collection of 13 essays that lay bare Yang’s exasperation, indignation, doubt,...

Us Against You by Fredrik Backman, translated by Neil Smith [Beartown 2] [in Library Journal]

12 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, European, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Swedish

*STARRED REVIEW Everything that happens in this resonating sequel to Beartown is revealed in the first two pages. But listeners will want to hear every word to discover how the events play out – better yet, they'll want to absorb every echoing nuance brilliantly embodied by...

A Tokyo Romance: A Romance by Ian Buruma [in Library Journal]

14 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, British, European, Japanese, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

“Japan shaped me when the plaster was still wet,” writes New York Review of Books editor Ian Buruma. In his mid-20s in 1975, the Dutch-born Buruma, who is half English and half German Jew, arrived in Tokyo to study film at Nihon University College of...

Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World’s Next Superpower by Roseann Lake [in Library Journal]

08 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

With a superb blend of historical, cultural, socioeconomic reportage, and plenty of engaging real-life stories, The Economist’s Cuba correspondent Roseann Lake alchemizes her five years in Beijing into a lively first book about the fate and future of China’s accomplished, independent, powerful – and unmarried – women. Over the last...

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture edited by Roxane Gay [in Library Journal]

13 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Haitian American, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost

"What is it like to live in a culture where it often seems like it is a question of when, not if, a woman will encounter some kind of sexual violence?" Roxane Gay (Hunger) posits in the introduction to her latest title, a "place for...

So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo [in Library Journal]

17 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

If you eschew potentially significant discomfort, then you're probably not ready to talk about race. Then again, denial is no longer an option: "These last few years, the rise of voices of color, coupled with the widespread dissemination of video proof of brutality and injustice...

We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman [in Library Journal]

06 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Arab, Audio, Middle Eastern, Nonfiction, Repost

As she did for Palestinians in Occupied Voices, Wendy Pearlman (political science, Northwestern Univ.) again gives agency to a population under siege, this time to Syrians. Fluency in Arabic provides Pearlman direct access to “hundreds of Syrian men, women, and children” of all backgrounds –...

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehesi Coates [in Library Journal]

05 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Nonfiction, Repost

If you were among the millions who discovered 2015 MacArthur “Genius” Ta-Nehesi Coates in his mega-bestseller, Between the World and Me, in his own voice, or you were an earlier pioneer who heard The Beautiful Struggle (2008) elegantly read by J.D. Jackson, consider choosing the...

Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman by Anne Helen Petersen [in Library Journal]

02 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW The morning after Election Day 2016, Buzzfeed culture writer Anne Helen Petersen produced her essay, “This Is How Much America Hates Women.” Women who questioned, challenged, feuded with Trump – especially “nasty woman” Clinton– were degraded and dismissed. This unruly behavior – outside the “boundaries...

Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve by Lenora Chu [in Christian Science Monitor]

21 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

'Little Soldiers' examines the Chinese education system from the inside Born in Philadelphia, reared in a Houston suburb, Stanford- and Columbia-educated, journalist Lenora Chu has a resume that – at first glance – looks very American. But her “connection to China came by birthright”: she’s “a...

Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan [in Christian Science Monitor]

14 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Arab, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian, South Asian American

'Temporary People' depicts the lives of guest workers in the UAE The sense of displacement, of disconnect begins on the cover: The words “A Novel” written sideways, unobtrusively stamped along the left side under the title Temporary People, might be considered misleading. Made up of three...

Stop North Korea! A Radical New Approach to the North Korean Standoff by Shepherd Iverson

01 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Korean, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, North Korean, Repost

Korean studies professor Shepherd Iverson, who describes his eight-year residency in South Korea as having “gone native,” promises a “monograph ...

The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap by Gish Jen [in Booklist]

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

Beloved novelist Gish Jen (World and Town, 2010) expands on the East-West cultural paradigm she applied to examining art and culture in her previous nonfiction work, Tiger Writing (2013), to see “what it can show us about the world.” As the U.S.-born child of Chinese immigrants,...

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey [in Library Journal]

30 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost

Colin Dickey (Afterlives of the Saints) cites a statistic that 45 percent of Americans believe in ghosts, and 30 percent profess to have had firsthand encounters. Such undying fascination means there was no shortage of stories to choose from when Dickey spent several years traveling...

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth [in Library Journal]

20 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese American, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW Angela Duckworth (psychology, Univ. of Pennsylvania) grew up hearing, "You know, you're no genius!" from her own father; she didn't even qualify for the gifted and talented program in third grade. In 2013, the MacArthur Foundation overturned her father's judgment, awarding her one of...

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