Here's the list of books by people of colour which I read in 2013. Where I've left reviews I'll link them, but otherwise it'll just be text.

1. Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh
2. River of Smoke - Amitav Ghosh
3. Fledgling - Octavia Butler
4. The Happiest Refugee - Anh Do ( Read more... )

6, 7, & 8. Three poetry collections by Moniza Alvi: Carrying My Wife, A Bowl of Warm Air, and The Country At My Shoulder (all three collections are available together in an omnibus also called "Carrying My Wife"). I have to admit, out of about 150 poems, there were three that did anything for me. I mostly found the expression of content ( Read more... )

"Gifted" by Nikita Lalwani. ( Read more... )

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I haven't been doing as well about either reviewing or cross-posting as I'd like, but here are some books I've read in the last few months:

( SF, fantasy, historical fiction, and contemporary fiction--mostly young adult--7 reviews )

9.After Dark - Haruki MurakamiIf this book was a film, it'd be a film noir and in french. They'd film it in New York or Tokyo or maybe even London but everyone would be speaking French and making existential asides. It's a tale of love and hate, inexplicable events and incomprehensible motives. It leaves the reader going, yes but why and how? But ( Read more... )

I've been holding off on posting for a while as I had four books by Chinese authors out of the library and I wanted to review them all together. However, Beijing Coma is really interesting but really long so it'll be a while before I finish that and I have other books to write up.

In the Pond - Ha Jin

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Mourning his mother’s death and suffering from midlife crisis, food fanatic Simon Majumdar decides to eat his way around the world for a year. The result is an uneven but always entertaining episodic memoir of his adventures. At worst, it’s perfunctorily written and peppered with national stereotyping (“with typical Latin-American machismo...”) At ( Read more... )

33. Gautam Malkani, Londonstani

This book was wonderful. The narrator is Jas, who used to be a bit of a geek, but now is very determined to be a true hard South Asian man, and the story is told through his inner monologue, complete with his worries with trying to fit in and learn the right slang. The slang gives the story so much rhythm and ( Read more... )

14. Out of India: An Anglo-Indian Childhood by Jamila Gavin ( Read more... )