The Week’s Entrée #215

Posted January 7, 2019 by Melissa in Updates / 0 Comments


Hi everyone! Welcome to another edition of The Week’s Entrée!

Yesterday this blog turned 5. FIVE. I can hardly believe that 5 years ago, I sat down and clicked “publish” on my first blog post. It was such a terrifying moment, but also one of my best. I look back and I can see how much I have grown as a writer, a reviewer, and how opening this online space to talk about books has shaped me into the person that I am today.

I’ve obviously faced a lot of rocks on the road, and stumbled quite a few times, but the thought of breaking my bond from this blog takes my breath away, and I just cannot fathom living without it! This will always be my favorite corner of the online world, and I hope to stay with it for many more years! ♥

So one of my goals of this year is to blog more consistently! Not only book reviews (which I love writing), but also to write outside of my comfort zone and perhaps, share a bit of my experience as a blogger, reviewer, and bookstagrammer! Writing posts like that sound fun and I guess… I feel ready!

So here’s to another year of book blogging and hopefully many more to come!

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New books!
{For Review}
From authors, publishers, Netgalley/Edelweiss, etc.

         

Huge thanks to @booksparks for sending me en epic package to celebrate the #BookSparksGildedGala! Among the goodies, they included Morphe Eyeshadow, Masquerade Masks, Party Poppers and a beautiful ARC of The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi! ♥ Cannot wait to start reading it!

 

Also many thanks to the lovely S. Usher Evans for sending my an ARC of The City of Veils! She even signed it to me, aaah!!! ♥ I love her! Make sure to check out this book, I’m sure it’ll be amazing!!!

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To Read This Week:


The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf
Published by Salaam Reads ISBN: 1449486061
on February 5, 2019
Genres: YA, Historical Fiction
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A music-loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this heart-pounding literary debut.
Melati Ahmad looks like your typical moviegoing, Beatles-obsessed sixteen-year-old. Unlike most other sixteen-year-olds though, Mel also believes that she harbors a djinn inside her, one who threatens her with horrific images of her mother’s death unless she adheres to an elaborate ritual of counting and tapping to keep him satisfied.
But there are things that Melati can't protect her mother from. On the evening of May 13th, 1969, racial tensions in her home city of Kuala Lumpur boil over. The Chinese and Malays are at war, and Mel and her mother become separated by a city in flames.
With a 24-hour curfew in place and all lines of communication down, it will take the help of a Chinese boy named Vincent and all of the courage and grit in Melati’s arsenal to overcome the violence on the streets, her own prejudices, and her djinn’s surging power to make it back to the one person she can’t risk losing.
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**Content warnings: Racism, graphic violence, on-page death, OCD and anxiety triggers.**

This week I’m reading The Weight of Our Sky and omg, it’s such a heart-breaking, emotional read and I’m just loving it so far. Keep this on your radar folks, and it’ll be this week’s #MTMC19 chat so be sure to join us Friday at 8pm EST to chat with the main character! ♥

ICYMI:

Check out last week’s posts!

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And that’s it for this edition of The Week’s Entrée! What are you all reading? 🙂

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