• Books & Book Reviews

    Alycat and The Friendship Friday

    Book Details: Book Title: Alycat and the Friendship Friday by Alysson Foti Bourque Illustrated by: Chiara Civati Category: Children’s Fiction, 32 pages Genre: Picture Book, Friendship Publisher: Mascot Books Release date: Oct 23, 2018 Tour dates: Oct 1 to 27, 2018 Content Rating: G ​Book Description: It’s finally Friday, and Alycat is excited to go on a field trip with her friends. But when she doesn’t have anyone to sit with on the bus, Alycat feels left out. Can she use her creativity and imagination to help everyone feel included? ​Alycat and the Friendship Friday will teach readers that making…

  • Books & Book Reviews

    Trail of Broken Wings

    Book Summary When her father falls into a coma, Indian American photographer Sonya reluctantly returns to the family she’d fled years before. Since she left home, Sonya has lived on the run, free of any ties, while her soft-spoken sister, Trisha, has created a perfect suburban life, and her ambitious sister, Marin, has built her own successful career. But as these women come together, their various methods of coping with a terrifying history can no longer hold their memories at bay. Buried secrets rise to the surface as their father—the victim of humiliating racism and perpetrator of horrible violence—remains unconscious.…

  • Writing

    Dog Ears #TwitterInspired

    Today’s Twitter inspiration came to me via a retweet from Modern Gypsy I’ve always prided myself on keeping my books neat, but this tweet, makes me rethink this practice. It is okay to dog ear pages. It is okay to draw in books. Doodles. Margin notes. Highlights. Books are to be interacted with, argued with, marked, loved. A book belongs to the reader as much as the writer. The reader should let the book know they exist. — Matt Haig (@matthaig1) July 16, 2018   How do you treat your books?