Pride month special, y’all! This June has been a real highlight for me, writing- and reading-wise. I had 2 bookish pieces published (including an epic Pride reading list I’m kind of proud of), and I got to talk to Nicole Dennis-Benn about her new (very big-deal and very great) novel Patsy. And the good good […]
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API Heritage Month, Short Story Month, and Random Reads Just Because! It’s a May Reading Wrap-Up
Hello, I am alive and still reading and reviewing books! Life keeps getting more hectic, it seems, but it’s not July yet so here I am with my May wrap up! May was API Heritage Month, so I made a point to read several Asian/Asian America authors in celebration of that and as an excuse […]
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April Reading Wrap-Up and Really Good Rec’s
April ended two weeks ago (?!), but like all of us out here in this world, I’m somehow busier than I expect so I’m a little behind on, well, everything. But I did read a lot last month, so I’m here with a wrap-up for you! April is National Poetry Month, and I read a […]
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Memoir March and Other Love Stories
March went by so fast, how did that happen?! I had a great month. I had some articles published; I went to AWP and saw Kristin Stewart *and* got a selfie with Melissa Febos (bless her gracious heart for dealing with my fangirling), both of which made my gay life; I heard T Kira Madden […]
Unblemished Self: Esmé Weijun Wang’s ‘The Collected Schizophrenias’
The Collected Schizophrenias is a memoir and a sociological exploration, an inside story and an academic examination.
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January Reading Wrap-Up: New Releases, Backlist, Stats, and Some Stellar Reads
A great month of reading for me means a long list of recommendations for you! Plus, a challenge check-in and some stats!
Monster Body, Miracle Body: ‘On Being Ill’ by Virginia Woolf
“…this monster, the body, this miracle, its pain, will soon make us taper into mysticism, or rise, with rapid beats of the wings…”
2019 Reading Intentions and Building Challenge TBRs
Happy 2019 everyone! I’ve never been much for New Years resolutions because who knows where the year will take me? I will probably need to adapt/modify my goals to some circumstance I don’t foresee, and anyway time is a construct and a calendar change means nothing and all that. But this year, I do want […]
A Little Story of Fate, and Why You Should Read ‘Don’t Call Us Dead’ by Danez Smith
Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith Graywolf Press, 2017 I picked up Don’t Call Us Dead because of my ongoing goal to read a lot of queer voices across genres. It’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. Not just reading decisions; life decisions. First, a story. I’ll be the first to admit I can […]
‘We All Need to Eat’ by Alex Leslie
We All Need to Eat by Alex Leslie Book*hug, 2018 (spoiler free) Poetic and timely, the sophomore short story collection We All Need to Eat by Lambda Literary award winning Vancouver writer Alex Leslie explores identity, family, body and love. Soma, a young queer Jewish woman in Vancouver, B.C., is struggling. In these non-chronological stories that chart […]