The Bamboo Stalk | 
#HumbleHarvest Day 9: Bamboo stalks and #Hayride(s) seem to go together. Paired with delicious mexican burrito. Book was strongly recommended by my Kuwaiti doctoral student. 💕💕💕
#AutumnPlease! Day 26: I have a feeling wearing a #Mask could be a theme here with the main character struggling to find a sense of belonging while in-between cultures as a biracial individual - and not really fitting in with one (Kuwaiti) or the other (Filipino).
pickA rather melancholy and depressing read but I still liked it. The MC returns to #kuwait where his Filipino mother became pregnant by the ‘master‘ of the house when she worked as a maid. The way that his Kuwaiti ‘family‘ treat him is terrible, as he has brought shame on them and ‘people will talk‘.
It‘s beautifully written and you get a real insight into #kuwaiti culture.
#readingasia2021 Also could be used for #philippines
Two books from previous week, all of them are for Reading Asia Challenge, except audiobook - Bellini and the Sphinx. #weeklyforecast
so-soContinuing my focus on the Middle East... José is the child of a mother from the Philippines who worked for a family in Kuwait when she became pregnant, and the father is the son of the family for which she is working. José's grown up being told he will go live with his father in Kuwait when he turns 18, and this is his journey between cultures, languages, and religions. ↘️
#BookReport Completed Mar 8-14
Tagged book was #BookSpin ✅ 4🌟
Happy to finish one more book than expected this week, so #AuthorAMonth ✅
3⭐ book and tagged were partially read books from last year 🙄 😑 😁
Glad to tick them off!
pickCompleted my #BookSpin for #March - YAY!
It was another partially read book that needed to be ticked off & truly deserved more of my attention.
Bamboo Stalk was a journey of a young man, seeking to understand his identity and to forge a sense of belonging in his father's homeland. I laughed, my brows shot up and heart sank with José aka Isa.
Excited for doublespin but I doubt I'll finish it in Feb.
Next list in the works 😆😂 @TheAromaofBooks
We're Catholic Muslims, and they're Protestant Muslims, he said. Everyone roared with laughter, but nonetheless I understood...
- funny analogy indeed! 😆 😆 Expecting to complete my #BookSpin title soon
#Bookquote #currentlyReading
When you‘re only on page 9 and you‘re already disgusted by another pig of a father...
Spotted this at my local Union Co-op supermarket and had to take a picture. It‘s oddly right above a copy of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
Brilliantly compelled the novice that I was when I read it 😩😭💜💜💜
#fivestack for this quarter's #LitWorld2018GB - #memoirs / biographies /first person narratives / I dentities &
I deology
Voyages to↩️
📚 Kuwait/ Philippines
📚 Syria
📚 Congo
📚 Egypt
📚 UK
The tagged book is my perfect fiction find for this theme. It continues to feed my rumination over the 'universal (question) of identity, race and religion.'
#ReadingResolutions
Not the greatest picture but in my defense Kinokuniya was still closed when I took it. Saud Al-Sanousi is apparently coming for a book signing March 16 at 5:30pm if you‘re in #Dubai.
pickThis is the story of Isa, born to a Kuwaiti father and a Filipino mother, the domestic help. Having lived in the Middle East for almost a decade now I found this story particularly interesting and can totally understand the situations that Isa found himself in and the controversy he faced. A really interesting read.
