Summer Reading 2+3July 3, 2018
I was scrolling through the reading challenge list and it inspired me to look a bit wider and perhaps read things I’d not have looked at before. As my budget is only £10 I decided that this was a perfect time to go scrolling on the kindle unlimited list and hope something catches my eye. It also inspired me to go down my very long wish-list and see if there were books on it that I could bag. Category 6 is graphic novel and I’ll admit I’ve never read one, plus the challenge of finding something over 100 years old for Category 8 called me.
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Raising a ForeignerJune 30, 2018
I sat in the maternity ward watching the other mothers fuss over their new charges. Some were questioning everything, so unsure of themselves. They fretted, all of them. Fretted about feeding, burping, the rest of the family, the visits, the suddenly unfamiliar body shells, mostly the new life they had produced. I fretted too, I fretted about the delay this late delivery and yet another day in the hospital would cost, about losing a visa and having my beautiful boy being separated from one of his parents.
Every stage of parenthood has fears attached but there are some extra special ones for those of us who combine cultures. We fear that the language our child speaks will be a barrier to their relatives, that our parenting choices will be batted between conflicting medical experts and cultural expectation, that our child will not have a change to embrace our culture, that they will grow up feeling torn between worlds that could have been theirs.
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Summer reading 01June 25, 2018
The summer solstice has passed and summer has officially begun. This year we have no flights booked. A whole summer stretches out before us, promising days of 40 and mosquito swarms, drippy ice-creams and festival music.
This summer I’m taking up a few mini challenges and the first is Amy Young’s reading challenge. So far, 2018 has been a year I’ve truly rekindled my love of reading. This simple alternative to a book club but with beautifully open categories and a mere 7 book target sounded perfect. The official challenge ends on August 17th so my hope is to read 7 books by then and continue to see how many more I can get through before summers official end on September 21st.
To add to the fun I am going to try doing the whole challenge on a budget of less than £10. I already have a kindle unlimited subscription so if I can find a suitable title through that then the book is counted free!
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