Happy Saturday morning, chums! Welcome to BiblioNyan. Before I jump into my weekend reading plans, I wanted to provide a brief update on the 1,000 Follower Giveaway. My announcement of the winners and Q & A segment was supposed to go up yesterday, but due to technical difficulties I had to postpone that until Monday.…
Hey all. I am the mysterious Sir Besty and today I wanted to share five books that I’ve read during my journey of transitioning that have helped me to better understand myself as a Trans woman and also understand what to expect during the process. As someone who recently started her transition, I am glad…
The last time that I read Japanese literature consistently was far too long ago and truth be told, I’m missing it with all of my heart. My last library trip from last weekend ended with my bookbag stuffed to the seams with Asian literature novels, most of which were from my absolute favourite genre, and…
The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi is an #OwnVoices Islamic and #OwnVoices Southwest Asian, middle-grade portal fantasy novel that was released in 2017 via Salaam Reads. It’s about a young girl named Farah who receives a strange board game from her aunt on her birthday. But when her brother accidentally gets sucked into it, she teams…
Rainbirds by Clarissa Goenawan is an Asian contemporary surrealist fiction novel that is authored by an Indonesian-born Singaporean author and takes place in a fictitious city in Japan. It follows a man named Ren Ishida who goes to Akakawa after learning of his sister’s brutal murder. Upon arriving, he works to wrap up the remnants…
May shall be ending in a little over a week. Since the year has been zipping on by rather swiftly, it can be easy to miss all of the fantastic book releases that have been happening thus far. So, before the month has a chance to properly end, I wanted to share with you books…
Crazy Rich Asians is an #OwnVoices Singaporean-Chinese adult contemporary novel—the first in a trilogy of the same name—about a girl named Rachel Chu who feels ecstatic when her seemingly average boyfriend, Nick Young, invites her to spend the summer with him and his family in Singapore. However, she never expected that he would turn out…
