Blue Sun, Yellow Sky by Jamie Hoang

Blue Sun, Yellow Sky
by Jamie Hoang

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Release date: April 25, 2015
Publisher: HJ Press
Genre: Art, Women's Fiction
Paperback: 298 pages
Rating: 3.5

Hailed as “One of the best technical painters of our time” by an L.A. Times critic, 27 year-old, Aubrey Johnson's work is finally gaining traction. But as she weaves through what should be a celebration of her art, a single nagging echo of her doctor’s words refuses to stay silent—there is no cure. In less than eight weeks Aubrey is going blind.

Traveling on a one-way ticket around the world with childhood friend Jeff Anderson, Aubrey is in complete denial. But a blindfolded game of tasting foreign foods in China jolts her into confronting the reality of her situation. So begins her quest.

In this adult coming of age story, Aubrey struggles to make sense of her crippling diagnosis. But on her journey she finds a deeper understanding of herself and her life—sometimes fragmented and complex, but always with relentless truth.

My two-bits:

This tale is a combination of travel, art, coming of age and transformation - with also a touch of romance.

Most of the book is a journey to different parts of the world which includes some wonders of the world. The descriptions of some of the places visited got me adding them to my destination to travel wish list.

Because the main character is an artist, the perspective of things had a creative and colorful quality.

Although the main topic of going blind is a bit heartbreaking, it is handled well with a positive attitude.

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* review copy courtesy of author

* added this to my Bookish Bingo challenge - square: April release

* fyi: BLUE SUN, YELLOW SKY was a finalist in the North Texas RWA’s “Great Expectations” Contest, and was recently named one of Kirkus Reviews’ Indie books of the Month (February 2015 issue).

Bookish Bingo Challenge: Spring

Bookish Bingo Challenge
Winter: April to June 2015
hosted by Great Imaginations (details)
I'm hooked!

I am joining this bingo challenge again - fourth one.

The Rules:

Read read read!

-You may include one DNF.
-Remember, one square per book.
-Books do not have to be reviewed

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Books read:

Square - Horror
Outpost by Ann Aguirre -my review --coming soon

Square - We Need Diverse Books
A Boy Like Me by Jennie Wood -my review

Square - Anthology or Collection
Finder, Vol. 04: Talisman (Finder #4) by Carla Speed McNeil -my review

Square - Yellow Cover
I Take You by Eliza Kennedy -my review

Square - Green Cover
Paperweight by Meg Haston -my review

Square - Classic
Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse -my review

Square - Memoir
The Year My Mother Came Back by Alice Eve Cohen -my review

Square - Illustrated cover
The Sculptor by Scott McCloud -my review

Square - Parental Relationships
Bittersweet by Kimberley Loth -my review

Square - Historical
Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekback -my review

Square - Plants on cover
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll -my review

Square - Dark Contemporary
Bear Witness by Melissa Clark -my review

Square - Murder Mystery
The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters -my review

Square - Aussie Author
Darkness by Ciye Cho -my review

Square - April release
Blue Sun, Yellow Sky by Jamie Hoang -my review

Square - Parallel Universes
Years and an Ocean by Jo Noelle -my review

Square - WWII
Mademoiselle Chanel by C.W. Gortner -my review

Stacking the Shelves - 1.31.15

Stacking the Shelves
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Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

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Bought:

The Mime Order
(The Bone Season #2)
by Samantha Shannon
-Dystopia
Amazon | Goodreads
=====> so excited about getting this! just need to figure out when to squeeze it in the reading schedule

For Review:

Darkness
(Florence Waverley, #3)
by Ciye Cho
-Fantasy, Mermaid
courtesy of author
Thanks !
Amazon | Goodreads

Blue Sun, Yellow Sky
by by Jamie Hoang
-Women's Fiction
courtesy of author
Thanks !
Amazon | Goodreads

New Uses for Old Boyfriends
by Beth Kendrick
-Women's Fiction
courtesy of BookSparks
Thanks !
Amazon | Signup to win this on Goodreads -expires Feb 3
Library:

Kill My Mother
by Jules Feiffer
-Graphic Novel
Amazon | Goodreads
When three daunting dolls intersect with one hapless heroine and a hard-boiled private eye, deception, betrayal, and murder stalk every mean street in… Kill My Mother.

Adding to a legendary career that includes a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, Obie Awards, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Cartoonist Society and the Writers Guild of America, Jules Feiffer now presents his first noir graphic novel. Kill My Mother is a loving homage to the pulp-inspired films and comic strips of his youth. Channeling Eisner's The Spirit, along with the likes of Hammett, Chandler, Cain, John Huston, and Billy Wilder, and spiced with the deft humor for which Feiffer is renowned, Kill My Mother centers on five formidable women from two unrelated families, linked fatefully and fatally by a has-been, hard-drinking private detective.

As our story begins, we meet Annie Hannigan, an out-of-control teenager, jitterbugging in the 1930s. Annie dreams of offing her mother, Elsie, whom she blames for abandoning her for a job soon after her husband, a cop, is shot and killed. Now, employed by her husband’s best friend—an over-the-hill and perpetually soused private eye—Elsie finds herself covering up his missteps as she is drawn into a case of a mysterious client, who leads her into a decade-long drama of deception and dual identities sprawling from the Depression era to World War II Hollywood and the jungles of the South Pacific.

Along with three femme fatales, an obsessed daughter, and a loner heroine, Kill My Mother features a fighter turned tap dancer, a small-time thug who dreams of being a hit man, a name-dropping cab driver, a communist liquor store owner, and a hunky movie star with a mind-boggling secret. Culminating in a U.S.O. tour on a war-torn Pacific island, this disparate band of old enemies congregate to settle scores.

In a drawing style derived from Steve Canyon and The Spirit, Feiffer combines his long-honed skills as cartoonist, playwright, and screenwriter to draw us into this seductively menacing world where streets are black with soot and rain, and base motives and betrayal are served on the rocks in bars unsafe to enter. Bluesy, fast-moving, and funny, Kill My Mother is a trip to Hammett-Chandler-Cain Land: a noir-graphic novel like the movies they don’t make anymore.

OTHER things on my shelf: kinda book-related

1000 Awesome Things
=====> I've been visiting 1000 Awesome Things on my work day mornings to start the day with a smile. It is based on the book below which I read last year and found to be...awesome ;-)

The Book of Awesome
by Neil Pasricha
Amazon | Goodreads
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