Book Review: A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and TomorrowLaura Taylor Namey Have you been looking for a gentle book that feels like your favorite mug, warm in your hands and a hug for your heart all wrapped in one? If you haven’t been looking, I hope you’ll take the time for this enchanting, grounded contemporary teen…

Book Review: Arsenic and Adobo

Arsenic and AdoboMia P. Manansala If you’re the type of person who gets hungry while reading about delicious foods, make sure you have some snacks nearby while you read this excellently paced cozy mystery that enjoys poking the right amount of fun at its own melodrama while offering up a literary culinary feast the likes…

Manga Review: That Blue Sky Feeling

That Blue Sky Feeling Okura|Coma Hashii That Blue Sky Feeling is a gentle slice of life manga centering on the lives of two high school boys: Dai Noshiro and Kou Sanada. The title of the manga isn’t self-explanatory like other titles I’ve seen, and lets readers take from it what they want to experience, much like the…

#WNDB – Week 11: El Deafo

El Deafo by Cece Bell is a fantastic look into her early school years with a loss of hearing, as told through the language of comics. The dynamics offered by comics allows the reader to take in a visual approximation of what it is like to be hard of hearing or deaf. Additionally, Bell addresses the myriad…