1. Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992 by Paula Yoon, 2024. Nonfiction, marketed as YA but reads like adult nonfiction with meticulous detail and sourcing. I remember the Rodney King case and protests, but barely, as I was absorbed with the final semester of college and graduation, no regular TV exposure. The additional context of LA’s Korean ( Read more... )

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Poll Daily Lit

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Today I finally sat down with a post-it note and figured out what I want to read for the letter O. (I still have a few chapters to go with Nabokov's Speak, Memory, which had to be returned to the library and then come back to me, and a significant amount of listening in The Time-Traveler's Wife, which is my housecleaning audiobook and you know how ( Read more... )

Bookherd posted her 2010 book list! I also got lists from my dad, my sister, and Sanguinity, and I want to read books from all of them in 2011. Not just because I can snag good book recommendations from all of them, but because I like the idea of creating little pieces of common ground. If everyone reads completely different sets of books, that's ( Read more... )

I had my last visit with the kitties this evening. Phew, I did not forget them for too long at a time and no one died including the fish. Loaner Kitty was under the bed for the duration of all my visits, and Hermi-1 had short, focused snuggles (with me or with Sang if she came with me) and then was done ( Read more... )

I am very happy with my subscription to One Story. I've gotten three issues now. The typography and layout is the same for all the stories, except for the title and author's name on the front. They're pretty, pretty little booklets, and the stories have been good too. There are author interviews on the blog. There's nothing I don't like so far ( Read more... )

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At the end of each year, my dad, my sister, and I send each other lists of the books we've read that year, with a little blurb about each book. (Sanguinity makes a list too sometimes, but not every year.) I eschew the letter grades my dad and sister assign to their books; I don't like my relationship to the books to be one of picking and choosing, ( Read more... )