Spring really made its presence felt last week. It was SO HOT we had to turn the AC on a couple of evenings to cool down the house. Luckily that went away and we are back to cool(ish) spring weather again. But it also was a great time for the garden. We got to pull up two radishes and plucked a few strawberries. Sadly my sunflower seeds didn’t seem to make it this year. Maybe it was too wet when I planted them. Or they just got eaten!! I’ll have to try again! But in the meantime I’ve added a zucchini plant, a chili plant and a Persian cucumber to our garden! 

Also last week I decided to join the #AsianLitBingo challenge and made up a too-ambitious list!

 

Our favourite dumpling place (with the best red bean pancake and a so-yummy bread with condensed milk) has closed down! We had to try a new-to-us handmade noodle place a few doors down but weren’t disappointed. Great noodle soups! Beef bao, potstickers and chive dumplings! 

 

Currently…

 

Reading:

Ninefox Gambit – Yoon Ha Lee

 

 

House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi

 

Watching:

More…Gilmore Girls!

Eating:

Just had Chinese bakery hotdog bun for breakfast

Drinking:

PG Tips with milk 

Browsing:

Checking out all the #AsianLitBingo tbr lists!

Muslim-American kids need to see more of themselves in pop culture (Lit Hub)

Emma Donoghue writes about big families in fiction (The Guardian)

I always wondered what potted meat (from all those British children’s books) tasted like – and here’s a recipe, and it doesn’t sound too bad (The Guardian)

TV is rewriting the book on how to adapt novels (The Guardian)

Added to my TBR:

City of Strife by Claudie Arseneault (via Huntress of Diverse Books)

Last week:

I read:
A whole bunch of comics I had meant to read during Readathon but never made it!
Spider-Woman: Shifting Gears, Volume 2: Civil War II Dennis Hopeless (Writer), Javier Rodriguez (Penciler, Colourist), Veronica Fish (Artist), Tigh Walker (Artist),

Demon Vol 2 – Jason Shiga
Unicorn on a roll – Dana Simpson
Sex Criminals Vol 2: Two worlds, one cop – Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky

Space Dumplins – Craig Thompson

Locke and Key: Small World – Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez

I posted:

Top classics covers done right

#AsianLitBingo TBR list