Summer Bucket List

My friend Rachel has always shared her summer bucket lists , and it's always been fun to see how much of it she manages to complete at the end of the season (and how many items I was along for the ride for). And my friend Kristin shared her summer bucket list recently to remind me that I wanted …

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Abbreviations #136: Stamped from the Beginning, The Library Book + The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

I’ve been waiting for my library hold to come in for Stamped from the Beginning since last year. It’s one of those non-fiction reads that intimidated the heck out of me when I first thought about picking it up, but I felt so strongly that it was something I had to read. When it finally came in, I i…

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Mabuhay! Filipino Artist Recommendations

I'm so excited to bring you this year's posts for  Mabuhay!  My best friend  Rachel  and I have done this feature almost every year since 2014, both as a celebration of Filipinos in literature and to share a little bit about Filipino culture just in time for Philippine Independence Day on June …

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Friends with ARCs: Arsenic and Adobo (+ Q&A with Mia Manansala)

I'm so excited to bring you this year's posts for Mabuhay! My best friend Rachel  and I have done this feature almost every year since 2014, both as a celebration of Filipinos in literature and to share a little bit about Filipino culture just in time for Philippine Independence Day on June …

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Adventures in Anime #8: Golden Time

It's time for more  Adventures in Anime ! My best friend  Rachel  & I team up for this collaboration where we pick out an anime, watch it together and then answer a series of questions about it for the blog. Since we featured Magic Knight Rayearth last time, it was time for us to find a new-to-…

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Friends with ARCs: An Emotion of Great Delight

An Emotion of Great Delight invites readers to intimately get to know and walk with main character Shadi. She's struggling to keep her head down in the wake of the harassment and targeting of the Muslim community in the wake of the political climate in the United States after 2001. She's al…

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May 2021

I had a pretty good May! It certainly helped that spring (and hints of summer) were in full force, as I'm always more perky and positive when the weather is nice. The month kicked off with a belated birthday picnic for my sister Mel in Central Park on a lovely spring day, followed the week afte…

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