Review: The Buddha in the Attic

 

The Buddha in the Attic Author: Julie Otsuka Genre: Fiction Publisher: Random House Audio Release Date: August 23, 2011 Audiobook: 3 hours and 55 minutes Narrator:  Samantha Quan and Carrington MacDuffie Source: Free from e-Library

Sunday Delight: Me A Panel Moderator?

OMG! I was asked by the organizer of The First Inglewood Literary Arts Festival to be the panel moderator for the Children's Author Panel.  OMG!  No way!  Really!  Me!  This is a bit surreal.  What am I going to ask them?  Hell what are we going to talk about?
Yes!  I! AM! A! BIT! NERVOUS!!
It's on 4/11/2015 at 10am so I have a bit of time.  Not much to get it together.
Oh by the way...
HAPPY EASTER SUNDAY!

Here and Now

Time: 5:28 pm (Saturday)

Drinking:  Green Tea with Lemon and Honey

Eating: Going to make a Caesar Salad with Grilled Fish

 Listening To: The Brand New Heavies Radio on Pandora

Watching: Last week we saw Get Hard with Kevin Hart and it was funny but a bit over the top with the sexual references.  I was so pissed at the mom behind us who had her 4 kids all under the age of 13 with her.  The whole movie I was looking back at the kids as they covered their eyes.  It was shameful.  She was there to watch a movie and just happened to bring her kids along too.  Hot ass mess!

Raining Romance Books Giveaway Hop

Is it raining outside?

LOL!  

It's Los Angeles so it would be kinda weird.

Giveaway Time!!

The Prize

$5.00 Amazon Gift Card

The Rules

Enter the rafflecopter form

Ends 4/18/15

Open to anyone who can get an Amazon Gift Card via email.

6 Degress of Seperation with The Rosie Project

Hosted by Annabel Smith and Emma Chapman

Did you know that two authors host a monthly meme called 6 Degrees of Separation?  I didn't know really but after seeing the meme on Girlxoxo blog a few months and I thought it looked interesting and so I looked into it.  And yes there is a monthly meme!  

Here are the detail.  Basically, they give you the fist book and you link 5 other books to it any way you can.  In case you have more questions, these are the official rules:

Book Blogger Hop: Never Forget

Hosted by Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer

Happy Friday! 

And welcome to the Book Blogger Hop: April edition.  I know!  April already? WOW!  That was quick.

What is Book Blogger Hop all about?

Each week the host at Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted writer will prompt a new topic submit by a blogger and everyone can join in with their answers. You should join us! It's quite fun!  No really it is!

This Weeks Topic/Question

April 3rd - 9th - Is there one book you will NEVER forget? (submitted by Elizabeth)

POC Children Book's

Welcome back to my little post about the world of POC.  

What is POC you ask?  POC stands for People of Color.  Non-White.  So that encompasses Asian, Black, Latin, American Indian.  This year I am making it a point to include more POC post on my blog.  Not just book reviews but other stuff like highlighting POC authors, books and other things POC are doing in the bookish world.

Today, I am highlight children books.  I have to say first, when I was a small beginner reader there were no, ZERO books with little black girls in them.  I know my mother was very conscience about making sure there were black dolls in our collections along with a few white ones but there were no books with POC in them on my shelf.  Not because my mother didn't buy them but that was just not heard of in the late 70's and 80's.  I was an avid reader early on and I was hooked on the Sweet Valley High Series and the Choose Your Own Adventures series the most.  Again there were no POC in those books as well.  Not back then.  

Today things are different and I find myself going to the children section just to see what new POC books are out now.  There are more books than before but still the numbers are not even close to being even or even close to non-POC books.  Here are a few great children books with POC characters and/or by POC authors.

By the way have you seen this....

Image from The First Book Blog

It's A Read-A-Thon's Wrap

March Madness and Take Control of Your TBR Pile

I just did two month long read-a-thons.
One, March Madness hosted by Cedar Station and the other one was TBR Pile Read-a-Thon hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer.
And I read more books in the month of March than I have in two good months.  I am a four books a month a person so completing 16 books is so amazing to me.  Yep!  16!

It so helped to have the month off from work too.  I see how other book bloggers do it now.  I spent a minimum of one hour every single day reading.  No matter what!  And that helped so much too.  I am going to try and keep that rule going as long as I can.
Hopefully, I can do half of this for the month of April.  

Books Finished
~ *The Buddha in the Attic (audiobook)

~ *The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl (audiobook)
*Blue Lily, Lily Blue (audiobook)
*When the Emperor Was Divine (audiobook)

Diversity on the Shelf 2015: April Review Link-Up & Giveaway

Welcome to the April review linky of Diversity on the Shelf 2015 Reading Challenge.  

Every month I will post a linky for you to add your reviews.  Please have a direct link to the book you are reviewing to the linky.  No links to blog home pages please.  If you don't have a blog, please link to your Goodreads, Amazon, Facebook, LibraryThing or other account where you are reviewing the books for this challenge.

Books that qualify for this challenge are by people of color or with a main character of color.  All shades and races of color are welcomed and encouraged here.  If you still need more clarification on what a person of color is Click Here.

If you haven't signed up for the challenge yet, don't fret you still have time.  Just sign up here! 

If you need a few suggestions on what to read for this challenge check out the list of links to blogs, book list and more. (Links here)

  March Stats

(as of 3/31)

  52 participates

  46 books read and reviewed

Fool for Books Giveaway Hop

Hosted by I Am a Reader, Not a Writer

Let's do it again!  Let's have another giveaway!!!!!

I'm not going to make you hold your breath to long with a bunch of chit chat, I'll just get right down to it.

The Prize

$5.00 Amazon Gift Card

Cover Characteristics - Pink

Hosted by Sugar and Snark

Each week we will post a characteristic and choose 5 of our favorite covers with that characteristic. If you want to join in and share your 5 favorite covers with the weeks particular characteristic, then just make a post, grab the meme picture (or make your own) and leave your URL in Linky (so we can visit).
You don’t even need to participate, just stopping by and saying hi would be great! Don’t forget to stop by the other participants!

This week was another fun topic.  Something about pretty in pink book covers!  I love pink but not too much of it.  And you know me...I will make this a diverse list of books (as much as I can).  Click on the book titles below to go to their Amazon page.

~ Pink ~

1.  Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella

2.  The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

3.  The Yada Yada Prayer Group by Neta Jackson

4.  32 Candles by Ernessa T. Carter