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book review: where you see yourself by claire forrest
“They say you can’t be what you don’t see. Well, I just saw it.” Claire Forrest, Where You See Yourself Rating: Genre: young adult fiction Rep: disability (wheelchair user, cerebral palsy – based on author’s personal experiences) synopsis. The stunning debut that Nina LaCour called “beautiful” and “important.” Where You See Yourself combines an unforgettable coming-of-age tale,…
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days at the morisaki bookshop by satoshi yagisawa with eric ozawa (translator)
“It’s funny. No matter where you go, or how many books you read, you still know nothing, you haven’t seen anything. And that’s life. We live our lives trying to find our way. It’s like that Santōka Taneda poem, the one that goes, ‘On and on, in and in, and still the blue-green mountains.” Rating:…
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book review: breathe and count back from ten by natalia sylvester
“people talk about pain like it’s measurable. they’ll ask me to put it on a scale from one to ten. but I’ve been pushing it away so long it’s like my barometer’s broken.” Breathe and Count Back from Ten by Natalia Sylvester Rating: Genre: young adult fiction Disability Rep: hip dysplasia, chronic pain synopsis. In…
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book review: how to write an autobiographical novel by alexander chee
“there’s a reason that whenever fascists come to power, the writers are among the first to go to jail.” How to Write An Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee Rating: Format: paperback & audiobook Page Count: 277 Genre: nonfiction memoir synopsis. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and…
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book review: yellowface by r.f. kung
Rating: Format: audiobook Length: 8 hours, 39 minutes Genre: adult fiction synopsis. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena’s a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn’t even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls,…
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book review: stay true by hua hsu
Rating: Format: ebook & audiobook Page Count: 192 Genre: nonfiction memoir synopsis. In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua,…
