Category: Short Story

Reading Wrap-Up: September 2023

Posted on October 10, 2023 by

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Hello readers! Here’s my monthly review for everything I read in September. I’ll be back again on October 15th with the TBR Pile Challenge checkpoint! In the meantime, our first contemplative read has begun. You’re welcome to join us as we read Ed Yong’s… Continue Reading “Reading Wrap-Up: September 2023”

Category: Biography, Buddhism, Christopher Isherwood, Diane Seuss, Fantasy, Fiction, Gavin Edwards, Graphic Novel, History, Horror, James Baldwin, James Clear, John Brehm, lgbtq, Mary Oliver, Middle Grade, Mindfulness, Monthly Review, Mr. Rogers, Mythology, Naomi Kanakia, Personal Growth, Poetry, Race, Readers Imbibing Peril, Rick Riordan, RIP, S.L. Coney, Short Story, Stephen King, Thich Nhat Hanh, Thriller, Tillie Walden, Young Adult

In the Between: 21st Century Short Stories

Posted on September 5, 2022 by

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In the Between gathers together seventeen short stories and two comics created by established and rising stars in American fiction or graphic art, all published since 2000. It speaks to the widening diversity in our population and to our changing society. The stories in… Continue Reading “In the Between: 21st Century Short Stories”

Category: Brice Particelli, Short Story

Snow Day Updates

Posted on May 23, 2021 by

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The weather here in America’s hottest region has been strange this weekend, to say the least. It’s tens of degrees cooler than normal and we’re even getting snow in the mountains! Snow in late-May! It’s quite an event, let me tell you, and I’ve… Continue Reading “Snow Day Updates”

Category: AAPI Heritage, Books, Cambodia, Japan, Joseph O. Legaspi, Loung Ung, Memoir, Mia Alvar, Philippines, Poetry, Short Story, Timothy Liu

April is the Coolest Month

Posted on May 1, 2021 by

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Hello, everyone, and Happy May Day! I had an incredibly active reading month in April, so I’m going to post the list of titles that I read (by genre) below, with very, very brief comments on each. I read a total of 16 titles,… Continue Reading “April is the Coolest Month”

Category: AAPI Heritage, Anne Lamott, Books, ccspin, Chris Tse, Classics Club, Dark Academia, Donna Tartt, Ernest Hemingway, Essay, Glyn Maxwell, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Jamie O'Neill, Jean Valentine, Joseph O. Legaspi, Justin Phillip Reed, Kazuo Ishiguro, LGBT, Louise Glück, Maggie O'Farrell, Poetry, Robert Frost, Short Story, Tracy K. Smith

Justice Shiva Ram Murthy by Rishi Reddi

Posted on October 22, 2018 by

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Rishi Reddi’s “Justice Shiva Ram Murthy” is an interesting and insightful short story about the struggles displaced immigrants may face in big-city America. The author successfully applies techniques such as setting, characterization, and point of view to explain the main character’s motivation and to… Continue Reading “Justice Shiva Ram Murthy by Rishi Reddi”

Category: American Lit, Fiction, immigrant literature, Indian Literature, Rishi Reddi, Short Story, women's literature

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