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bobastudios · 2 years

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Gibberish tells the story of Dat, a child immigrating to the U.S. and his experience making friends in school in a new country that speaks a different language. 🛩🗺🗣❓️ As a child of an Asian American who also immigrated to the U.S. while in elementary school, seeing Dat's story published means a lot to Ash. Not only that, but it was written by our wonderful UP/Start mentor, Young Vo! 🥳

With a new school year starting, we wanted to share a sneak preview we recorded way back when it arrive (we pre-ordered! 😝)! If you haven't finished your school shopping, check out this Baltimore Count Public Library Back to School recommendation! 📖✨️

#AAPI #AAPIbooks #AAPIauthors

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hollymbryan · 2 years

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🎮 MIDDLE GRADE BOOK FEATURE 🎮 As we celebrate #aapiheritagemonth, and as we're reading HOW WE FALL APART for #getthrilledbuddyreads this month, I wanted to remind everyone that @ktzhaoauthor *also* writes middle grade books! I got LAST GAMER STANDING for my son, and while he hasn't had a chance to read it yet, he's excited to - as am I! She's got another MG book that just released, WINNIE ZENG UNLEASHES A LEGEND, *and* a new YA thriller coming soon, THE LIES WE TELL. Make sure you're supporting authors who are telling stories that are diverse from your own experiences!! 🎮 🎮 🎮 #lastgamerstanding #katiezhao #katiezhaoauthor #mglit #middlegradereads #middlegradebooks #middlegrade #middlegradefiction #kidlit #aapi #aapimonth #aapihm #aapiwomenstrong #aapiwomen #aapiauthors #aapiauthor #diversereads #diversereading #weneeddiversebooks #readdiversebooks #BookKeepingBlog #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstagrammers #booknerd #booknerds #winniezengunleashesalegend #thelieswetell https://www.instagram.com/p/CdgZF81rSUT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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teencenterspl · 1 year

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📚 Reading Recommendations for AAPI Heritage Month 📚

Check out these stories penned by Asian American and Pacific Islander authors! All available at Smith Public Library 😉

#wylietx #smithpubliclibrary #yalit #teenlit #readingrecommendations #bookstagram #aapi #aapiheritagemonth #aapiauthors #Instagram

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thebooklush · 1 year

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Happy book birthday to @msthienkim! I can't wait to dive into her second book! New Orleans? A boudoir photographer heroine? Opposites attract? SIGN ME UP! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ About the book: Boudoir photographer Josie Parks never ever takes a vacation. But when a client cancels a New Orleans shoot at the last minute, she decides to fly out from her Washington, D.C., studio anyway. Maybe the trip will reawaken her recently stagnant muse. After all, it’s Mardi Gras season… ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Spencer Pham has come home after twelve soul-sucking years in corporate hell to pursue his passion: making a docu-film on his family’s history as the first Vietnamese Mardi Gras krewe. The last thing he expects is getting whacked in the head by a beautiful woman trying to snag some parade beads. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ During a long night at urgent care, Spencer and Josie connect over their artistic pursuits. He offers to show her the real New Orleans, if she’ll help him with the camerawork for his film. Despite Josie’s type-A personality clashing with Spencer’s laissez-faire attitude, they seem to make a great team, and soon, the good times are rolling both on and off camera. But Josie has a life in D.C., and they both have big dreams they’re chasing. When this Big Easy fling starts feeling awfully serious, can they find a way to choose between personal and professional passion? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #romcom #bookbirthday #bookstagram #bookish #amreadingromance #romancebooks #romanceauthor #romancereader #AvonBooks #bookstagram #VietLit #aapiauthors #AsianBooks #dc #romcom #diverseromance #inclusiveromance #irromance #HappilyEverAvon #FullExposure #interracialromance #romancebooks #Romancelandia https://www.instagram.com/p/Co7YCeML1v3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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amylittlefordauthor · 2 years

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𝐀𝐀𝐏𝐈 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 - 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 📚👉 May is a great month! So much to celebrate and get behind with AAPI Heritage Month, Mental Health Awareness Month and Jewish American Heritage Month! I thought I'd start with celebrating AAPI authors by sharing some amazing book recommendations 😁 Save this post for later to check off some great reads! Also swipe to the end for some information about AAPI Heritage Month that you may not know! I've also tagged as many of the author's so check them out and definitely give them a follow ☺ I really enjoyed creating this and have found some great new authors to add to my never ending TBR 🎉 Even though I'm not from the US I still wanted to celebrate these great authors 💛 and AAPI HERITAGE MONTH P.S. I handed in my dissertation today 😲🥺😌 Qotd: Find any new AAPI authors you want to read? Share them below 😚 sharing is caring 😋 #amylittlefordauthor #amylittleford #asianamerican #jennyhan #helenhoang #carouselpost #asianamericanauthors #aapi #aapiheritagemonth #aapiauthors #romancebookstagram #romance #romancereaders #bookhoarder #bookhaul #librarylife #bookstack #librariesofinstagram #booktography #readabook #bookaesthetic #bookworms #readingisfundamental #bookrecommendation #bookaesthetic #bookshelves #readabook #readmore (at Cambridgeshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdGr3hHrmp_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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eekiax · 3 years

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In honor of AAPI month I’m gonna list some of my favorite books written by AAPI authors:

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Internment by Samira Ahmed

Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

#aapi #aapiauthors #aapi month #crazy rich asians #pachinko #crying in h mart #intermnet #patron saints of nothing #the joy luck club

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highkeyfire · 3 years

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I was going to wait to post a more manicured pic but… 🤷🏾‍♀️🎉😁💚

…me sweaty and happy and crying tears of joy seemed more genuinely my speed 🤣.

Today I held the proof copy in my hands for the first time. I always surprise myself as if I haven’t been quietly hustling in the background this whole time haha.

Thank you to everyone who made this possible. Shout-out to Gerry from the I Street Press, Kim Zarins and @whataboutateakettle! I’ll long post later. 🥴

Check out www.sunnysidetheatre.org/purchase to pre-order a signed copy!

#itme #publishedplaywright #screaming #cityoftrees #sacramentotheatre #preordernow #aapiauthors #black playwrights

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kazuoishiguro · 3 years

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book recs for aapi month! (ya edition)

the magic fish by trung le nguyen ; (lgbt) a graphic novel about tiến, a gay teen, in love with his best friend trying to come out to his mother

these violent delights by chloe gong ; (historical fiction, romance) a retelling of romeo and juliet set in 1920s shanghai

you've reached sam by dustin thao ; (romance, magical realism) julie, devastated by the recent death of her boyfriend, decides to call his phone to hear his voice one last time—only, he picks up, giving them another chance to say goodbye (expected publication november 2021)

the girl who fell beneath the sea by axie oh ; (fantasy, historical fiction) a retelling of a korean folktale, about maidens being thrown into the sea to appease the sea god — mina sacrifices herself to save her siblings, and navigates the spirit world in search of the sea god (expected publication february 2022)

gearbreakers by zoe hana mikuta ; (science fiction) sapphic found family (and enemies to lovers) filled with robots and rebellion :) (expected publication june 2021)

the henna wars by by adiba jaigirdar ; (romance) teen girls working in rival henna businesses — nishat is muslim and gay (despite her parents saying she can't be both); flávia is the half brazilian girl she cant seem to take her mind off, despite the latter appropriating the former's culture as they both do henna

bloom by kevin panetta ; (lgbt, romance, realistic fiction) a graphic novel about ari, a teen just out of high school, stuck working in his family's bakery who meets hector, a boy passionate about baking (hector is samoan!)

laura dean keeps breaking up with me by mariko tamaki ; (graphic novel, lgbt, realistic fiction) freddy attempts to navigate her high school life as a lesbian whose girlfriend keeps breaking up with her

luck of the titanic by stacey lee ; (historical fiction) british-chinese teen valora luck smuggles herself aboard the titanic in search of her twin brother, and to implore the owners of a circus to hire them as acrobats

a clash of steel by c.b. lee ; (historical fiction) a retelling and remix of treasure island, set off the coast of south china in 1826

hani and ishu's guide to fake dating by adiba jaigirdar ; (romance) easy-going hani finds herself constantly invalidated by her friends when she comes out as bi, so she blurts out that she's actually in a relationship with ishu—a studious girl the complete opposite of her, whom hani's friends hate

this ended up kind of long so i think i'll do a part two or something-

#trying for the pi in aapi too!!!!#book recs #aapiauthors #diversebooks #books #bookstagram #axie oh #adiba jaigirdar #young adult

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annareads-amillion · 3 years

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Girls of Paper and Fire Book Review

By Natasha Ngan

Chinese- Malaysian

Non US-Centric: England

TW: rape, sexual assault, physical and emotional violence.

From the book:

Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It’s the highest honor they could hope for…and the most cruel.

But this year, there’s a ninth girl. Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most oppressed class in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade-old trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal guards still haunts her. Now, the guards are back, and this time it’s Lei they’re after–the girl whose golden eyes have piqued the king’s interest.

Over weeks of training in the opulent but stifling palace, Lei and eight other girls learn the skills and charm that befit being a king’s consort. But Lei isn’t content to watch her fate consume her. She must decide just how far she’s willing to go for justice and revenge.

My thoughts:

This books was...harsh. I associated my feelings with those I had while reading Ember in the Ashes, it's cruel and raw, it made me cry because of the situation these girls were facing, it made me angry at the injustice and audacity, of The King specifically, that I actually screamed at the book. And I was saddened by the fact that this things do happen in our reality. The author's note said something that stuck with me: "These are hard discussions, especially for teens, it is of vital importance we have them. Books can be safe places to explore difficult topics." That's exactly why I read and it's also how I felt about this book, it was hard to read it but it was also impactful and inspiring to read about this fearful girl who falls in love and finds her strength. I cannot wait to know what happens to these characters I now care so deeply for.

#girls of paper and fire #Natasha Ngan #book review #aapiheritagemonth #aapibooks #aapiauthors #asian readathon

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interludepress · 3 years

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COVER REVEALED!

THE BALANCE TIPS by Joy Huang Clark

Coming in October, author Joy Huang Clark's (Whasian) THE BALANCE TIPS is a literary exploration of Taiwanese-American female roles: in family, sexual identity, racism, and the internal struggles fostered by Confucian patriarchy.

Fay Wu Goodson is a 25-year-old queer, multiracial woman who documents the identity journeys of other New Yorkers. She finds her videography work meaningful, but more importantly, it distracts her from investigating the challenges of her own life and keeps relationships at a distance. When the family's Taiwanese patriarch dies, Fay's Asian grandmother moves to America; and Fay, her mother, and her aunt learn unsettling truths about their family and each other. They must decide to finally confront themselves, or let their pasts destroy everything each woman has dreamed of and worked for.

Cover Art by C.B. Messer

#Own Voices #Queer Fiction #Contemporary #LitFic #The Balance Tips #aapiauthors #Joy Huang Clark #Interlude Press

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gloriachaoauthor · 3 years

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So honored to be a part of the display of Taiwanese American literature at the Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce of North America's annual conference (and in fantastic company!). Thank you so much, @taiwaneseam_org, for all that you do. 🇹🇼 #Repost @taiwaneseam_org • • • • • • Fairmont San Francisco We’re at the Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce of North America’s annual conference doing what we love most — highlighting the incredible work of the Taiwanese American community. From YA to poetry to memoir, the Taiwanese American literature canon is ever-growing and we couldn’t be prouder. Check out our online bookshop at bookshop.org/shop/taiwaneseam_org . . . . . #taiwaneseamericanliterature #taiwan #TaiwaneseLit #taiwaneseamerican #AAPI #aapibooks #weneeddiversebooks #diversereads #discovertaiwan #diverselit #diversebooks #aapiauthors #booksbooksbooks #booksofinstagram #wndb https://www.instagram.com/p/CQZEAhgLqt6/?utm_medium=tumblr

#repost #taiwaneseamericanliterature #taiwan #taiwaneselit #taiwaneseamerican #aapi #aapibooks #weneeddiversebooks #diversereads #discovertaiwan #diverselit #diversebooks #aapiauthors #booksbooksbooks #booksofinstagram #wndb

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hollymbryan · 2 years

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🔖 MINI BOOK REVIEW 🔖 I love dark academia, so I was excited that we chose HOW WE FALL APART by @ktzhaoauthor for our May book for #getthrilledbuddyreads. I really enjoyed it! The thing I liked bestw as the Asian cast and the focus on the experiences of immigrants and their children in America. I think especially for the kids, it must be so hard to have that push and pull between your parents' culture and traditions and rules vs the "American" way of life. I really liked how Katie focused on that while also telling a great story. The plot itself has a Pretty Little Liars type vibe, which is always a good time 😁 If you enjoy twisty YA mysteries, check it out! RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (Featuring Dark Academia 🕯️ from @timelessprintsca!) 🔖 🔖 🔖 #howwefallapart #katiezhao #katiezhaoauthor #aapiauthor #aapiheritagemonth #aapiauthors #aapiwomenstrong #yaliteraturejunkie #yaliterature #yalit #yamystery #yathrillers #yathriller #yathrillerbooks #getthrilled #thrillerbooks #thrillers #thrillingreads #bookreview #bookreviews #bookreviewer #bookreviewersofinstagram #bookreviewblogger #BookKeepingBlog #buddyreads #buddyread #minibookreview https://www.instagram.com/p/CeWfniPreGH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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herbookishobsession · 3 years

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Book Tour Review | Made In Kore by Sarah Suk

This book was utterly adorable! The characters were charming and relatable, the romance was cute, and it was so nice to read about Korean characters in a YA novel. I found the entrepreneur storyline really refreshing and a nice change to the usual high school YA novels. The tangled family relationships were incredibly believable and uniquely authentic.

The ending was beautiful and the story as a whole was just SO CUTE! I even got my little 12-year-old brother to read it and he finished it in one day. He never reads and I think this is the book that’s gotten him into reading (thank you, Sarah!).

For some odd reason, I’m always the one to love the older side character who doesn’t get many lines, and guess what? I done did it again. I’m in love with cousin Charlie and no one can change my mind. Of course, he only got a few pages to himself but he was so adorable. He was nervous about a girl and overthought everything which I thought was very cute.

The MC’s Valerie and Wes are love-hate couples. Well, that’s more true for Valerie than Wes because she went through so much denial before finally giving in. I really liked the change of the stereotypical gender roles in Made in Korea! For once, the boy was the shy, awkward new kid, and the girl was straightforward, intimidating, and strong-minded. It was both fun and weird to see this because characters aren’t portrayed this way often.

The character development throughout the novel was done really well and the author did a great job when it came to making the emotions of the characters come to life. Made in Korea also talked about the difficulties of communication and confusion amongst friends and family, showing that humans aren’t as great at communication as we think we are. Amazingly realistic, and so beautiful to read about in modern-day YA fiction!

Overall, this book was both very cute and relatable. From the characters to the storyline, everything was absolutely incredible. I didn’t want to put this down and I guarantee you won't either! If you love the idea of contemporary enemies to lovers or love it when complete opposites attract, then this is definitely the book for you! Highly recommend it to all fans of YA and Contemporary romance!

#madeinkorea #book review #blog tour #blog post #books #author #aapiheritagemonth #aapiauthors #asian dating #contemporaryromance #enemies to lovers

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sloma993 · 3 years

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Stop AAPI hate,for more products just click the link and visit my store on redbubble platform

#design #find your thing #character design #aapi history #aapiheritagemonth #aapiauthors #support aapi #aapi lives matter #aapi hate crimes

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siehomme · 3 years

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Looking at the AAPI authors on my bookshelves, I realize how many of them I have. A bed-full, in fact, and that’s only from a quick scan. There are all kinds of books represented: adult novels, kid books, graphic novels, poetry, memoir, humor, horror… an incredibly diverse range, much like the AAPI community itself. Get to know us. Read us.

#AAPIheritagemonth #aapiauthors

Row 1: Talking to the Moon by @noelalumit

Dragon’s Breath by @marinaomiart

The Prince and the Dressmaker by @wangstagram

American Born Chinese by @geneluenyang

Forget Sorrow by Belle Yang

Row 2: They Called Us Enemy by @georgetakei

Behind My Eyes by Li-Young Lee

Pie in the Sky by @rrremylai

Shortcomings by @adriantomine

The Sympathizer by @viet_t_nguyen

Row 3: Little Beauties by Jia Qing Wilson-Yang

Vietnamerica by GB Tran

Same Difference by @derekkirkkim

Stargazing by @wangstagram

Spellbound by Bishakh Som

Row 4: Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by @malindalo

We Are Totally Normal by @rhkanakia

The Best At It by @maulikpancholy

Dragon Hoops by @geneluenyang

Row 5: Solstice by @katemaruyama

Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon the Soul by @rykaaoki

Letters From Montgomery Clift by @noelalumit

The Marvelous Mirza Girls by @shebakarim

Dragonfish by @vu.h.tran

#aapiheritagemonth #aapiauthors #aapibooks #Instagram

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kathrynpurdie · 3 years

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I’m looking forward to Thursday’s Instagram Live with one of my forever besties @akannodavis. You will all remember her name one day because she is an incredibly gifted writer. The conversation we’ll be having is a topic I hope people still discuss, regardless of the latest news headlines. . In Amanda’s words, “Friends, many of you know that the topic of racism toward the AAPI community is important to me. As a Japanese-American, the increase in AAPI hate crimes/incidents has deeply affected me. Join me this Thursday in an Instagram live event as author Kathryn Purdie and I discuss some of my personal experiences with racism and micro-aggressions. My hope is that each of us will come away from this conversation with greater compassion and a greater knowledge of how we can help.” . We sincerely hope you can attend! . . . #stopaapihate #stopasianhate #aapivoices #iglive #aapicommunity #aapiauthors #standupforaapi https://www.instagram.com/p/CNqEhlzLqKi/?igshid=e7xbbxxmqq8e

#stopaapihate #stopasianhate #aapivoices #iglive #aapicommunity #aapiauthors #standupforaapi

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