Review: ARSENIC AND ADOBO by Mia P. Manansala | Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery #1
“In typical Filipino fashion, my aunt expressed her love not through words of encouragement or affectionate embraces, but through food. Food was how she communicated. Food was how she found her place in the world. When someone rejected her food, they were really rejecting her heart.” Have you ever been to a Filipino bakery? If…
Review: THINGS WE LOST TO THE WATER by Eric Nguyen
“The last war was on a different shore, with different people, in a different country, and there’s no going back, back to that life. She realizes this now, but that doesn’t make it ache any less. In fact, the ache grows. It grows into two boys, and the two boys grow into two sons, and…
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Books you should read during Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month + Asian Readathon 2021
A comprehensive list of my favorite books by AAPI authors
TBR: 2021 Asian Readathon + Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month
It’s almost May, baby! And that means three things: We’re already almost halfway through 2021 Taurus season is upon usIt’s almost AAPI Heritage Month, and therefore it’s almost time for Asian Readathon!
Review: CRYING IN H MART by Michelle Zauner
“Am I even Korean anymore if there’s no one left to call and ask which brand of seaweed we used to buy?” I’m in my early 20s. I haven’t lived with my family full-time since I was 17 and moved to attend college in Northern California; even before then, starting when I was 15, I…
Review: SHARKS IN THE TIME OF SAVIORS by Kawai Strong Washburn
“When our language,‘Ōlelo Hawai’i, was outlawed, so our gods went, so our prayers went, so ideas went, so the island went.” My Goodreads review for SHARKS IN THE TIME OF SAVIORS begins, “this is easily one of the best books I’ve ever read holy ****. CRIMINALLY underrated,” and I stand by this statement. This book is one…
Upcoming releases by Asian American authors that should be on your radar | May – December 2021
As Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month approaches, I really can’t wait to start celebrating the craft and work of Asian American authors. In light of the recent violence and racism targeting, harming, and even killing Asian Americans across the U.S., I think it’s vital that we take the month of May to support…
Review: THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Imagine that your family has always had a generations-long feud with another family. Now, imagine that you have been raised to particularly hate a member of that family who is your age — the two of you have always competed academically and athletically, but have never actually spoken. But then one day, you do, and…
Review: THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI by Akwaeke Emezi
According to Oxford Languages, a ghost story (n.) is “a story involving ghosts or ghostly circumstances, intended to be suspenseful or scary.” We know from THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI’s title and opening sentence — “They burned down the market on the day that Vivek Oji died” — that Vivek Oji is dead, but we’re not…
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