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- Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 RoundupLat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 The most important and worthwhile bookish thing I did this year is that the Howl’s Moving Castle trilogy by Diana Wynne Jones (Howl’s Moving Castle, Castle In the Air, and House of Many Ways) came out with new covers by Josee Shimazaki, I instantly fell in love with them, and… Read more: Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 Roundup
- Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #6In 2023 I had the incredible opportunity to work on the Muriel Rukeyser archive at Eastern Michigan University. Working in an archive and combing through Rukeyser’s original papers and letters, discovering a person through the things she left behind, I got to know Rukeyser. At the end of my internship, I was gifted THE ESSENTIAL… Read more: Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #6
- Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #5This year I read two books at very different times, but in some ways inextricably paired: PEOPLE LOVE DEAD JEWS by Dara Horn in January and THE GOLEM OF BROOKLYN by Adam Mansbach in September/October. THE GOLEM OF BROOKLYN was screamingly funny; PEOPLE LOVE DEAD JEWS was bittersweetly nonfiction. Sometimes you walk around a problem… Read more: Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #5
- Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #4I had a lot of trouble Reading for Fun this year because I did too much Reading for School, but one book I really enjoyed was THE ANNUAL MIGRATION OF CLOUDS by Premee Mohamed (also author of the incredible “Beneath the Rising” series). I read this in its entirety on a plane coming back from… Read more: Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #4
- Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #3My First Book of the Year was volume 1 of HEARTSTOPPER and wow, it successfully lived up to the hype of everything Around it! Heartwarming, homosexual, drawn in an endearing style, cozy in a true-to-life way. A lot of Teen Fiction has many elements exaggerated for Narrative Reasons and Style, and I don’t feel like… Read more: Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #3
- Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #2Andrew Joseph White had his second book out this year, and it was a BIG EVENT this summer when my roommate went to pick up my Booksweet preorder and came home with THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH, White’s second YA book. Less gory but more visceral than HELL FOLLOWED WITH US, I devoured this book… Read more: Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #2
- Lat’s Bookish Adventures in 2023 – #1Seven journal-y type posts about my bookish adventures in 2023. The most important and worthwhile bookish thing I did this year is that the Howl’s Moving Castle trilogy by Diana Wynne Jones (Howl’s Moving Castle, Castle In the Air, and House of Many Ways) came out with new covers by Josee Shimazaki (pictured), I instantly… Read more: Lat’s Bookish Adventures in 2023 – #1
- Hiatus!Hi all! Thanks for still checking up on this blog. If you haven’t noticed, I’m on hiatus for now: I really overreached last year and now I’m trying to graduate from college. But I’m still reading: I expect to be back this summer!
- Book Review: City SpiesA MIDDLE GRADE SPY NOVEL THAT READS LIKE A MOVIE? Featuring a girl in STEM? Kids who go to school for SPY ACTIVITIES? Diverse characters up the wazoo? There are set-ups and they almost always pay off. And it’s fun! It’s really really fun! This is a great start to a series, I’m excited to… Read more: Book Review: City Spies
- Lat’s Eight Books of Hannukkah Gift-y List!note: mom if you’re reading this don’t buy me these I already own them all, thanks. this is for OTHER people. I am writing FOR AN AUDIENCE. if that audience were made up of people Exactly like me. basically, if you think I usually have good opinions about books, then you should buy these books… Read more: Lat’s Eight Books of Hannukkah Gift-y List!