Y’all may remember these segments as “Weekend Reads,” but I decided to change ‘em up a tiny bit. I originally created “Caturday Reads” over on The Djinn Reader, and I loved the concept so much that I decided to go ahead and import it over to BiblioNyan as well! What better way to kick off the weekend then with a stack of books and a squishy kitty face?
The Kinship of Secrets by Eugenia Kim is an #OwnVoices Korean historical fiction novel that is also a continuation of the author’s first novel, The Calligrapher’s Daughter. The story takes place in 1948 and follows Najin and Calvin Cho who travel from South Korea to the USA with their young daughter Miran in search for…
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite is an #OwnVoices Haitian-American young adult contemporary about a teenager named Alaine who is the daughter of divorced Haitian immigrants, one of whom has a degenerative illness. She lives in Florida with her father and ends up taking a trip to Haiti for a school…
I should just deem today as the Day of Book Hauls, given my first post and now this one. It’s turning out to be a bookishly fabulous week thus far, that’s for sure. Sticking with my theme from earlier, I shall be sharing with you five holds I picked up recently, which are all authored…
Good morning, friendlings! Saturday is going to be a fun and chill day for me. I plan on visiting my mum and having chai and breakfast with her and my dad. Then I’m going to come back home, do laundry, and play more Legend of Zelda on my Switch! Of course there shall be reading…
Historical fiction is one of my favourite genres, especially #OwnVoices historical fiction. My cousin and I were recently chatting about some of our favourites, as well as the titles that we are anticipating the most. This gave me an idea to share with you the top five #OwnVoices Chinese historical fiction novels that I have…
Good afternoon, bibliophiles and otakus. Today, I wanted to share with you all of the books that I have acquired since about March of this year up until the past week or so. I am very blessed with wonderful friends and family who know that in times of stress I thoroughly enjoying buying books to…
Shadow Girl by Liana Liu is an #OwnVoices young adult Chinese novel from the supernatural, mystery genres. It came out fairly recently and when I found it at the library a few weeks ago, I decided to pick it up because the premise sounded interesting to me. However, after reading it, I felt that the…
Good morning bookworms and otaku dragons! Mondays tends to be sluggish days for me as I wind down from the weekend and prepare for the work week ahead. As such, I decided to keep things simple today and share with you all the books that I am currently reading and hoping to finish before the…
For March, I decided to try my luck with a mini-TBR (to-be-read) list. For anyone who has been following either my blog or BookTube platforms for a bit, you have listened to me explain that I am not someone who creates monthly TBR lists because they tend to put me into a reading slump. This…
Good morning and happy Saturday to you all! Today, I will be sharing all the books that I bought/received during February. There are 21 total titles here. I am pleasantly surprised with the variety and diversity of books that I ended up with with this month’s haul, and I am super eager to jump into…
January turned out to be a phenomenal month for me in terms of reading. There was a good variety of multiple genres and mediums, and it has left me very excited for all of the books to come in February! Check them all out down below. 👍🏾 Fantasy & Fiction Literature: Forge of the Mindslayers…
Good morning and happy Friday to you all! With the weekend upon us, I decided to catalogue all of the books that I received during the holidays so that Sir Betrothed and I can spend the entire weekend marathoning video games. We began doing this to celebrate the end of 2017, and it’s been so…
Happy new year from my small family to you and yours! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend as 2017 ended, whether you were with loved ones or went solo. Instead of blogging, I decided to take a break so that I could spend my holiday time with Sir Betrothed and our kitty clan.…
Do you ever anticipate a book so much that when you finally get around to reading it, it ends up being such a humongous disappointment and your heart breaks? Welcome to my reading adventure with The Ouroboros Wave by Jyōji Hayashi. Sometime in the distant future, scientists discover the presence of a small black hole…