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[vj1i]

Còn Mãi Tìm Nhau

Thanh Hà- Còn Mãi Tìm Nhau —VJ1I Read the full article

[darkliterata]

Lovely haul for the New Books shelf!

[kpopandbookschild]

Book poll round 1 #9

[batrachised]

okay I have some books that…don’t really match what you’re looking for, but you may still enjoy

The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice

• Young woman coming of age, sassy remarks, strained relationships that still have love, house seems to have its own life, set in the 1950s

A Summer Book by Tove Jansson

• Grandmother and granddaughter live on a Finnish island, set in 1930s, slice of life with all the magic and grief of the seasons

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai

• Middle grade prose about a Vietnamese girl and her family moving to U.S.A. during the 1970s, magic and grief in the mundane

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

• prose story about a Latina girl in the city and her experiences, magic and grief (tw for one scene of assault)

All of these look incredible, and I see the lost art of keeping secrets has been suggested twice now!! I appreciate this suggestions wholeheartedly and will read them with gusto!!

[permanentreverie]

What books did you buy?

☺️ ahhhh thank you so much for asking nonnie!!!! i bought the entire ember in the ashes series, the whole raven cycle series, as well as deathless (by catherynne valente) and butterfly yellow (by thanhha lai)!

[mccoppinscrapyard]

Books Read/Listened To in 2023

* = owned

The Hellion’s Waltz by Olivia Waite (audiobook) : ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

In My Own Moccasins by Helen Knott- ⭐️⭐️⭐️��️⭐️

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Girls that Never Die by Safia Elhillo- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail by Ashley Herring Blake- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Who Put This Song On? by Morgan Parker (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Almost American Girl by Robin Ha- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez (audiobook)- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

And Yet by Kate Baer - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ana María and the Fox by Liana de la Rosa * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Black Roses by Harold Green III- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Patience and Esther by S.W. Searle- ⭐️⭐️⭐️

She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

In the Neighborhood of True by Susan Kaplan Carlton (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Wicked Beauty by Katee Robert (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

That Could Be Enough by Alyssa Cole * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Maus by Art Spiegelman * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? by Crystal Smith Paul * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Belle of the Ball by Mari Costa * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jewdrowski (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Sasha Masha by Agnes Borinsky * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Cheer Up! Love & Pompoms by Crystal Frazier * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Love Charade by Allie McDermid * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Yazidi! by Aurelien DuCoudray and Mini Ludvin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Bride Test by Helen Hoang (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Hello Stranger by Katherine Center * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Private Charter by N. R. Walker (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Island Wisdom by Annie Daly & Kainoa Daines - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay by Julian Aguon (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fire from the Sky by Moa Backe Astot (eARC) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fall Into You by Georgina Kiersten - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Sing Anyway by Anita Kelly - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

The Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Jazz Owls by Margarita Engle * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

She Was Made for Me by Jen Morris - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

You, Again by Kate Goldbeck * - DID NOT FINISH

The Tiny Journalist by Naomi Shihab Nye - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Gender is Really Strange by Teddy G. Goetz (eARC) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Well Matched by Jen DeLuca (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Love Flushed by Evie Mitchell - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Skip! by Sarah Burgess (eARC)- ⭐️⭐️.5

The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Home is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (audiobook) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw * - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Her Night With the Duke by Diana Quincy (audiobook) - currently reading

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata- currently reading

You’re a Mean One, Matthew Prince by Timothy Janovsky - currently reading

[corkcitylibraries]

Cork in Verse | Ana Spehar Interviews Sloane Quirke

Sloane Quirke is an artist from Cork. They’re currently studying drama in Kinsale and have written pieces for the online publication Good Day Cork. They find poetry to be a really good emotional release for them, and it inspires their drawing and acting as well. They love trying lots of different art forms and try their best to have fun with it all.

Besides writing you are an artist and studying drama. How do you manage to fit writing with other demands on your time?

To be honest I do find it difficult to set time aside for writing. I can make time when there’s a deadline on it, I think because there’s someone relying on me getting it done. To fit writing stuff that’s just for myself or my personal projects in though, I find that keeping a notebook on me really helps. I’ll often have random ideas or nice sounding lines pop into my head, and I jot them down in there. Then if I’m ever waiting somewhere with nothing to do, such as on a bus or in a cafe, I’ll take out my notebook and develop those ideas a bit more. 

Where do you seek inspiration from? Who are your poetic influences and why?

Most of my inspiration comes from my life, sometimes I’ll have a great experience with something, and I just have to write it out to keep the memory. Sometimes I write to vent, sometimes as an observation on ways that I think or on the world. The vast majority of my writing is about my experiences of being non-binary and navigating the world and all my relationships with people as an autistic person. I am guilty of not reading a whole lot of poetry, but I know this woman, Róisín Taylor, and she wrote a book with her poems. It’s called Mind Full of Memories, and it’s about her travels around the world. I was really inspired by the way she told her story and conveyed her feelings through a series of poems.

Does the creative process of writing affect your mood, and if it does how?

The creative process definitely affects my mood. I very often write to vent so that I’m not keeping emotions and thoughts in me. Writing out what’s going on, whether it’s just a stream of words or a coherent piece of writing, is so useful to help make sense of the messiness that can be in my head. I’ve also found recently that it’s a good way for me to challenge my own thoughts and thought patterns. When I was writing my piece, I’m Choosing To…, I had pages and pages of my thoughts on the topic of binary thinking, and eventually realised so much of it was just me being annoyed. After making that realisation, I started to look at it from a different angle and thought about the beauty and freedom of breaking out of that thinking, while still acknowledging the negatives of being stuck in those binary thought patterns. I would really recommend writing as an emotional release, and it doesn’t have to be good, because nobody else needs to read it ever.

Could you tell us more about your creative process of writing?

I have different processes depending on each project. Sometimes a poem just comes to me in its complete form, in a burst of inspiration and I end up writing it out frantically. Then I go back to it a day or two later and make minimal edits just so it’ll flow better. If I’m writing about a theme, or even about an aspect of my life, I’ll take some time, get some tea or coffee, and write out whatever comes to mind regarding that topic. Once I have some thoughts out, I can look through them and see if there’s anything that could be a good line in a poem. I compile these lines or blocks of writing, write some stuff to link it together, then edit it all to make it sound better when read out loud. I find reading my poetry out loud really helpful, whether it’s just to myself, my dog or a friend. A lot of my thoughts or lines get scrapped from poems, but I try to never fully throw away or delete things, because going back over old work can spark inspiration for new work.

What book would you recommend to our readers?

I have to recommend Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai. It’s a semi-autobiographical book written in verse about a 10 year old Vietnamese refugee in Alabama in 1975. It follows her escape from Vietnam and her first year in America. The way it’s written conveys the mind of a 10 year old so well, I can’t properly explain it. Some of the poems read almost like diary entries, while others feel like in the moment thoughts and emotions. It’s a really good read, and definitely impacted how I look at storytelling.

“Sun”

If I am the moon, then she is the sun

Without her I could not shine

She brings warmth to the day when there is none

I am forever blessed to call her mine

Her smile lights up any space

And her laugh will always brighten your day

When I see her, she puts a smile on my face

When she is gone, my charm slips away

Every moment is Heaven with her around

And it will stay that way until we are six feet under the ground

“I’m choosing to”

I’m choosing to challenge binary thinking

I’m choosing to take the boxes

That I’ve been forced into

Crammed into dark spaces

Too small and cramped for me

I’m choosing to tear the boxes to pieces

To claw my way out

Until all that remains

Is shredded cardboard

That will be used as kindling

For the fire that is burning in me

Fire

A word that usually brings to mind

Images

Of chaos and destruction

And I choose to challenge that

I choose to not be a raging wildfire

Just growing and burning

Not caring what I destroy

Maybe I’ll be a crackling fire

In a hearth

Growing at the rate of which others give me fuel

Or perhaps a candle

Steady and reliable

Called upon in emergencies

I’m choosing to leave my options open

To maybe jump between forms

Even revisit wildfire if I see fit

And that suits me more

Than that cold, dark box

That I once dwelled in

[90secondnewbery]

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai

2012 Newbery Honor Book

Adapted by Rosalie W., Addison R., Robyn M., Chris T., Noe C., Bella M. of Palo Alto Elementary (2024)

From San Antonio, TX

Judges' Remarks: It was a fun and visually interesting idea to tell the story using homemade sock puppets, with a variety of well-chosen green screen backgrounds. There were some nice touches with the sound design, like how the background music changing according to the mood, or the water sound effects. The voiceover performances portrayed the characters sensitively and engagingly. This movie zipped through the major plot points competently, and while I was confused at a few points as to what exactly was going on, this was overall an entertaining movie!

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[readingbooksinisrael]

May 2023 Wrap-Up

Rereads

The Chalet School at War/Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (Chalet School #15) (mg school adventure fiction)

School for One/Judith Weil (ya realistic Jewish fiction)

5 stars

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt/Deborah Hopkinson, illustrated by James Ransome (historical fiction picture book)

Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood/Nathan Hale (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #4) (mg historical non-fiction graphic novel)

4.5 stars

The Chalet School in Exile/Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (Chalet School #14) (mg adventure fiction)

Inside Out and Back Again/Thanhha Lai (mg historical based-on-the-author novel in verse)

Loveless/Alice Oseman (na coming-of-age realistic fiction)

4 stars

Apples Never Fall/Liane Moriarty (adult domestic thriller/mystery)

Riding Lessons/Jane Smiley (Ellen and Ned #1) (mg realistic horse fiction)

3.5 stars

Changes for Kirsten/Janet Shaw, illustrated by Renne Graef and Keith Skeen (Kirsten Larson #6) (first chapter books historical fiction)

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute/Talia Hibbert (ya romance)

What Moves the Dead/T. Kingfisher (Sworn Soldier #1) (adult horror)

Winter of the Ice Wizard/Mary Pope Osborne (Merlin Missions #4) (first chapter books mythological fantasy)

3 stars

Bishop’s Opening/R.S.A. Garcia (adult sci fi romance)

2.5 stars

The Call of the Wild/Jack London (adult animal fiction)

Confessions of a Shopaholic/Sophie Kinsella (Shopaholic #1) (adult chicklit romance)

Kirsten Saves the Day/Janet Shaw, illustrated by Renne Graef and Keith Skeen (Kirsten Larson #5) (first chapter books historical fiction)

2 stars

Sister of the Bride/Beverly Cleary (First Love #4) (ya realistic fiction)

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# books read: 18

Most read age groups: MG and Adult

Most read genre: Realistic fiction

Average rating: 3.3 stars

[vj1i]

Tình Là Sợi Tơ

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[urostakako]

24, 31, 42? 🖤

hi 🖤

24. height

5'7 (170 cm)

31. 3 random facts

i'm double jointed on both hands and i can twist my fingers pretty weird

a part of my brain is larger than it should be

i'm lactose intolerant on some days, but one thing i can never drink is regular milk. i tried once because i thought it was in my head and it didnt end up well :')

42. favourite book(s)

there are a couple books I read in middle school that I still think about: The Twistrose Key by Tone Almhjell, Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai, The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill, and Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata :DD

[thang1234]

Ten novel

THE SYMPATHIZER BY VIET THANG NGUYEN

this debut novel could fit into half a dozen genres of Vietnam war books from war narrative to immigrant story, from mystery to political, from metafiction to historical and even dark comedy. The story follows an anonymous North Vietnamese narrator who’s acting as a mole in the South Vietnamese army and is sent to an exile community in the U.S., where he stays embedded in the South Vietnamese community. (bookriot.com)

YEAR OF THE JUNGLE BY SUZANNE COLLINS

The Hunger Games trio, has written one of the most affecting Vietnam war books. Perhaps more of a memoir than straight fiction—thought not fully on either side—the story is that of Young Suzy, whose father goes away to the Vietnam War. (bookriot.com)

CRACKER! THE BEST DOG IN VIETNAM BY CYNTHIA KADOHATA

An excellent example of the reality that not all Vietnam war books must be depressing, this uplifting story follows an army canine unit dog that goes by the name of Cracker. He spends his days with his handler Rick, looking for booby traps; the story is told from first Cracker’s and then Rick’s viewpoints. (bookriot.com)

DOG SOLDIERS BY ROBERT STONE

Dog Soldiers is a story of the Vietnam War and of drug smuggling. Often compared to Joseph Conrad and Ernest Hemingway, and largely considered one of the best Vietnam novels, Stone focuses on two characters, one of whom is a sailor traveling home from Vietnam.(bookriot.com)

THE SHORT-TIMERS BY GUSTAV HASFORD

The Short-Timers, a book that’s currently out of print, but you may have heard of the movie based on it: Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket. Hasford wrote this semi-autobiographical novel about his experiences in Vietnam and intended it to be a trilogy of Vietnam war books. (bookriot.com)

DIRTY WORK BY LARRY BROWN

This piece of short fiction is written almost entirely in dialogues and monologues between two critically wounded Marines in Vietnam. The author did serve in the Marines, though not in Vietnam, and tells a convincing tale of the conversation between the men at a veteran’s hospital. (bookriot.com)

CLOSE QUARTERS BY LARRY HEINEMANN

One of the first fictional Vietnam war books, and often touted as one of the best Vietnam novels, it’s a face-paced wonder that follows draftee Philip Dosier as he is drafted into the war, completes a of tour of duty, and comes home. (bookriot.com)

THE SORROW OF WAR BY BAO NINH

This fictional account of Kien, an infantryman for North Vietnam, follows his transformation into a writer, his struggles to overcome his memories of combat, and the terrible mess his life has become as a result. (bookriot.com)

LISTEN, SLOWLY BY THANHHA ALI

Beautiful, lyrical, and impactful, this novel follows Mai, a girl raised in California who can’t understand why she’s being sent off to spend her summer with her grandmother in Vietnam. Upon her arrival, Mai is disappointed in the lack of WiFi, can’t handle the heat, and is put off by the crowds. (bookriot.com)

THE QUIET AMERICAN BY GRAHAM GREENE

The New York Times in 1956 claimed that Greene’s novel about Vietnam had characters that stood in for nations and political factions rather than as their own people. Greene’s conclusion seems to be that America was a somewhat “innocent” nation that did not understand the people it was fighting with or against. (bookriot.com)

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[mccoppinscrapyard]

23 Books I'd Like to Read in 2023

* = owned

Sorry, Bro by Taleen Voskuni *

Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail by Ashley Herring Blake ✔️

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo * ✔️

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman *

Audacity by Melanie Crowder *

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde *

Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay * ✔️

When You Ask Me Where I’m Going by Jasmin Kaur

Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly ✔️

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin *

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum *

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw ✔️

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata ✔️

Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai * ✔️

Flooded: Requiem for Johnstown by Ann E. Burg

Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf

Girls That Never Die by Safia Elhillo ✔️

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse *

The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant *

The Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes* ✔️

The Bride Test by Helen Hoang ✔️

My general goal is at least 25 books. A lot of these have been on my TBR or shelves for a while... some are newer and I may not get through all of them but these are my tentative reading goals.