Category: #DecolonizeReading2023

by Myra Garces-Bacsal May 13, 2023 0

#DecolonizeReading2023 Adult Award-Winning Books Features Genre Lifespan of a Reader Literary Fiction Reading Themes Saturday Reads Speculative Fiction, Scifi, Fantasy

[Saturday Reads] Displacement and the Inevitable Revolt of the Colonized in RF Kuang’s “Babel”

She learned revolution is, in fact, always unimaginable. It shatters the world you know. The future is unwritten, brimming with potential. The colonizers have no idea what is coming, and that makes them panic. It terrifies them.
Good. It should.
– Babel, R. F. Kuang

by Myra Garces-Bacsal May 10, 2023 0

#DecolonizeReading2023 Books Early Readers Features Genre Lifespan of a Reader Non-fiction Wednesday Nonfiction Picture Books Reading Themes

[Nonfiction Wednesday] Redemption and Hope in Truthful Stories About Slavery in a Luminous 2023 Picturebook

“How do you tell that story and not want to weep for the world?” – Kwame Alexander and Dare Coulter, “An American Story.”

by Myra Garces-Bacsal May 8, 2023 2

#DecolonizeReading2023 Books Early Readers Features Genre It's Monday What Are You Reading Lifespan of a Reader Picture Books Reading Themes

[Monday Reading] Feathers and Rainbows, Colors and Light in 2022 Diverse Picturebooks

“Color The Sky” by David Elliott and Evan Turk | “Music Is A Rainbow” by Bryan Collier.

by Myra Garces-Bacsal May 7, 2023 1

#DecolonizeReading2023 Book Hunting Expeditions Features Reading Life Reading Themes

[BHE 566] Book Hunting in London (Part 1 of 4): An Ode to Waterstones and Foyles

GatheringBooks in the UK.

by Myra Garces-Bacsal May 6, 2023 0

#DecolonizeReading2023 Adult Award-Winning Books Features Lifespan of a Reader Literary Fiction Reading Themes Saturday Reads

[Saturday Reads | #DecolonizeReads2023] Decentering Whiteness in Britain in Sam Selvon’s “The Lonely Londoners”

“People in this world don’t know how other people does affect their lives.”
― Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners