I have been waiting for what seems like forever to read the latest Ellie McEnroe thriller--Lisa Brackmann's Dragon Day (Soho Crime, 2015). And this week it not only came out, but I also read it.So what's so special about Lisa Brackmann's Ellie McEnroe series? I was first … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Under a Painted Sky
I'm always on the lookout for a good story with characters we don't read about everyday. In other words, I'm one of many who think we need more diversity in literature, especially the different genres of children's literature.So when my friend Jennifer mentioned Stacey Lee's … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Domino Diaries
When I recently came across The Domino Diaries: My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway's Ghost in the Last Days of Castro's Cuba (Picador, 2015) by Brin-Jonathan Butler, I was attracted to the cover. But what really sparked my interest was the … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Little White Duck
This summer I've been plowing through young adult graphic novels with a Chinese theme, but most of them are a bit too violent or over the heads of my little kids, age 6 and 8. So today I went to our public library to see if I could find any middle grade graphic novels set in … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Shadow Hero
I was never into graphic novels until I bought my oldest son Gene Luen Yang's best-seller, American Born Chinese (Square Fish, 2008). I was looking for books with a Chinese theme and this one seemed like it would be of interest to a then-thirteen year old.A few years later I … [Read more...]
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