Being a mother of two children who are mad about Kinder Joy eggs, reading this excerpt from The Blue Between Sky and Water by Susan Abulhawa made me feel so immeasurably sad.
Here, a small child from the Gaza strip mourns the loss of Kinder Joy eggs when they are under siege by the Israelis.
Today, the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish have asked us to list our recent 5-star reads. Since I rarely classify books as…
This book has been on my TBR list for a long time. Finally, I got around to it a couple of weeks ago, and…
The aging patriarch and matriarch of the Ghosh family preside over their large household, made up of their five adult children and their respective…
6.6 Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch–“Scout”–returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil…
Today, the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish have mandated a a Valentine Day-based freebie, and very predictably I thought I’d list my…
Today, the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish have asked us to list the top books I read in 2015. This year, I…
Today, the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish have asked us to list ten new-to-me authors whose books I read in 2015. This…
Welcome to Mailbox Monday. The books I mentioned I was expecting in my last mailbox post finally showed up last week, almost two weeks…
Today, the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish have given us a Halloween-themed freebie. I chose this opportunity to list the books I…