A Review Posing as a One-Act November 30, 2021 Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Academy: No Humans Allowed! by Madeleine Roux November 30, 2021.
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison December 13, 2021.You Sexy Thing by Cat Rambo December 17, 2021.Proctor Valley Road by Grant Morrison Alex Child December 18, 2021.Mickey7 by Edward Ashton December 22, 2021.The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi December 22, 2021.Base Notes by Lara Elena Donnelly December 28, 2021.The Hand of the Sun King by J.T. Greathouse December 31, 2021.Light Years From Home by Mike Chen January 1, 2022.Go Back to Where You Came From by Wajahat Ali January 5, 2022.Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds, Jason Griffin (Illustrations) January 16, 2022.Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro January 17, 2022.Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee December 5, 2022.Stellar Instinct by Jonathan Nevair December 10, 2022.Titan Hoppers by Rob J. Hayes December 15, 2022.If you are interested in multicultural coming-of-ago books, this is one you need to read. The writing is wonderful and the cultural lessons are truly memorable. In him he finds a salve for the awkwardness of his father and the misunderstanding of the rest of his family. But he find a lifeline in a neighbor kid named Sohrab who pulls him out of his grandparents house to play soccer. He is confronted with a family and a world that he doesn’t truly understand and don’t really understand him. But we really start to learn about him when he is a fish out of water when he and his family travel to Iran to visit his mother’s family.
We also get many references to his favorite JRR Tolkien books. We learn a great deal about Darius in the first couple chapters of the book as he goes to classes at his Portland area high school and his job at the tea shop at the local mall. He has a therapist and takes medication… He seems ok, but there’s always an underlying tension, especially when being constantly bullied at school and having an awkward relationship with his father, and being one of the only Persian students at his school. Two key parts of Khorram’s book with stick with me: his treatment of mental illness and male friendships.ĭarius is being treated for depression. Darius is just a fantastic character who you will want to follow along with. A special category on PaulsPicks for this one: I got through it in less than one day.
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