Published on : 2021 || Format : ebook || Location : Canada One line review : When Kiran runs away from home to another country, to escape her rapist, she doesn't realize how long it is going to take her to feel like herself again. ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ “Passports and boarding passes, please,” drawls the blond, goateed man, towering a foot above us both. I pass him both my and Mom’s documents and attempt the smile that every person of color has mastered. The one that reads, I’m thoroughly nonthreatening. Please don’t pull me aside and racially profile me. Thoughts : I can't remember how I found this book or why I chose to read it. It was available on my library's Overdrive catalog and I'm glad I made the time to read it. If I Tell You the Truth tells the story of Kiran's arrival in Canada as a pregnant graduate student, though in reality, she was also running away from her rapist back home in India. When she makes the decision to have the child, her parents aban
And what a fun week it was! Armchair BEA was a huge success to me! I can particularly attest to that by saying that I didn't do much work at all this week - at least for the first four days. By Friday, I was slightly panicky, and because of my desire to end the week with a feel-good sentiment, I managed to work seriously yesterday. With my Tweetdeck tuned to #BookBloggerCon.
If you haven't checked out my posts yet, here are the links.
- BEA Discussion: Rise of the online book club member, in which I talk about how popular online book communities have become.
- BEA Discussion: The Blogger and the Microblogger, in which I suggest how bloggers can become avid microbloggers, aka twitterers.
- BEA Discussion: Books from far, far away, in which I ask how we can blog proactively and give more attention to the lesser-known books.
- BBC Panel: How to keep an active buzzing blog, in which I give a few strategies to keep your blog active and non-redundant.
Thanks to the wonderful organizers - Tif, Emily, Michelle, Florinda, and Danielle - for having set up this excellent event, that
- Gave me a chance to be a part of BEA and BBC from my comfy chair.
- Introduced me to a whole new set of truly wonderful bloggers, some who I have never come across before, and can't believe I missed them for so long!
- Spread a lot of blogger love.
- Gave us a chance to connect more as friends than bloggers during the Twitter party on Thursday.
- Gave me an excuse not to work this week.
- Gave me an excuse not to write reviews this week.
- Won me 9 wonderful books, without even going to BEA.
- Introduced me to a ten-year old blogger!
*Applause, Applause*
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I did a wrap-up post too.
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