Svetlana's Reads and Views

 The Sunday Post The Sunday Post is a blog news meme hosted here @ Caffeinated Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on your blog for the week ahead. Join in weekly, bi-weekly or for a monthly wrap up. See rules here:  Sunday Post Meme #31 Misleading Labels We were getting ready for my son's friend's birthday party and tried to buy several gifts which were smaller than we anticipated. For example we found some kind of reusable water balloons that cost over twenty dollars, but there were like literally six of them or so. (Anyone else find the numbers bizarre? Twenty-two dollars for six reusable water balloons?) I am also excited about this coming month of books so yay!  Last Week On The Blog This Week On The Blog New Arrivals At svetlana's reads and views   It's Monday! What Are You Reading?  (From The Book Date) It’s Monday! What Are You...

  Name of Book: The All-American Author: Joe Milano Jr.  ISBN: 978-1-324-03565-7 Publisher: W.W. Norton  Type of book: South Korean, Asian DACA, army, Washington, 2000, football, secrets, absurdist events, Man's fiction, identity, teamwork, spying, doing the right thing  Year it was published: 2023  Summary: Introducing a character as viscerally believable and unforgettable as any in fiction, The All-American is a triumph―full of energy, dark humor, suspense, and hard-won wisdom. Seventeen-year-old Bucky Yi knows nothing about his birth country of South Korea or his bio-dad’s disappearance; he can’t even pronounce his Korean name correctly. Running through the woods of rural Washington State with a tire tied to his waist, his sights are set on one all-American goal: to become a college football player. So when a misadventure with his adoptive family leads the U.S. government to deport him to South Korea, he’s forced to navigate an entirely foreign version of his...

  Name of Book: I Went to see my Father (Korean:  아버지에게 갔었어) Aboji ege kasseoso Author: Kyung-sook Shin, Anton Hur (trans) ISBN: 9781662601378  Publisher: Astra House Type of book: South Korean history from 1940s-2010s, family, siblings, secrets, cult, affair, loyalty, farming, traditions, modernity, cycles, writing, books, life, countryside life vs city life  Year it was published: 2023 (original 2021) Summary: An instant bestseller in Korea and the follow up to the international bestseller, Please Look After Mom; centering on a woman's efforts to reconnect with her aging father, uncovering long-held family secrets. Two years after losing her daughter in a tragic accident, Hon finally returns to her home in the countryside to take care of her father. At first, her father only appears withdrawn and fragile, an aging man, awkward but kind around his own daughter. Then, after stumbling upon a chest of letters, Hon discovers the truth of her father's past and recon...

 The Sunday Post The Sunday Post is a blog news meme hosted here @ Caffeinated Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on your blog for the week ahead. Join in weekly, bi-weekly or for a monthly wrap up. See rules here:  Sunday Post Meme #30 Missing out on some fun This week my son was sick so I am disappointed to say that we didn't do this week what I wanted, namely the Cub Scout activity which includes going on a scooter and a treasure hunt as well as going to synagogue and missing out on three days of school because both Grandma and I wanted him to feel better and didn't want to make him feel worse. For last few weeks we built Titanic, but I decided to start over and we will begin in summer. I honestly am dreading summer quite a bit. We also won't be going out camping as I planned so yeah. But yeah the highlight is the fact a friend invited him to ...

  Name of Book: Emperor of Ruin Author: Django Wexler ISBN: 9780316519663 Publisher: Orbit  Part of a Series: Burningblade and Silvereye ( Ashes of the sun, blood of the chosen prequels)  Type of book: post-apocalypse, fantasy, science fiction, power, gift, genetics vs environment, limits, secrets, legends, myths  Year it was published: 2023  Summary: Two siblings divided by magic and revolution must finally join forces and rally the people to take down the Twilight Order once and for all in the final book of this brilliantly imagined epic fantasy trilogy. ​ The last surviving Chosen, Ashok has finally risen up and taken control of The Twilight Order. He promises equality and prosperity, but Gyre and Maya know the truth. Only death follows in Ashok's wake. To take him down, Gyre will have to unite old allies from all across The Splinter Kingdoms and the depths of Deepfire. And Maya will have to seek out a legendary weapon hidden in the mountains that could...