During the month of July, I’ve been participating in #Transathon – a month-long readathon to focus on trans books and support trans authors…
Continue reading “Reading || Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin: A Review”
It’s long-past time for white people (myself included) to start being proactively anti-racist. It’s uncomfortable, and it’s difficult to know where to start, but that is not an excuse to remain silent.
There are few things in life better than spending a Bank Holiday weekend with your nose in a book, so let me persuade you to join our readathon and raise money for a worthy cause…
Continue reading “Reading || #PagesForPeriods Readathon 8th-10th May”
Unicorn is certainly an appropriate title for this gem of a memoir, it has to be the most unique story I’ve come across!
Continue reading “Reading || Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen by Amrou Al-Kadhi”
When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well did they actually know the woman they called Mother?
Continue reading “Reading || #ReadTheWorld – South Korea: Please Look After Mother”
Last week I asked YOU to help me choose 30 books from my TBR to read before the end of my 30th birthday year and the results are in…
As I cruise on towards my 30th birthday, I’m taking a long hard look at my TBR and I need YOU to help me choose 30 books to read before the end of this year!
I’ve had my eye on Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights since I first saw the phrase ‘Reading Spa’ on an Instagram story (more on that later), so imagine my excitement when Mr A-B not only surprised me with a mini-moon to Bath, but unknowingly booked an apartment round the corner from this awesome independent bookshop…
“What if we had told the true story of two selfish kids out for their own aggrandizement? How many shooters would be imitating them today? We can’t unwrite those myths. But we can expose them.”
It’s received a lot of hype thanks to being the first entirely Asian/Asian diaspora cast since 1993’s adaptation of The Joy Luck Club, but how does Crazy Rich Asians compare to its source material?
Continue reading “Watching || Crazy Rich Asians: Book vs. Film”
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