Tag: Eileen Ramos
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The Best Books We've Read This Year
Our 2019 best books list is here! We got 11 lists and 50 books for you, so come and check out all that we loved this year!
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#abandonedB2DBC No. 003: Let Love Flow – Grove Street PATH Station, Jersey City, New Jersey
It’s Friday, August 24th 2018, and it’s one of the final weekends of this glorious summer. On your mind is your childhood best friend’s first baby shower, and you’re eager to buy board books and clever onesies. You’re on the ascending escalator of Grove Street Station (which actually works for once), just coming from the…
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I’m Deleting Tinder
Author’s Note: “I’m Deleting Tinder” is a fictional letter inspired by Alain de Botton’s The Romantic Movement, The Dictionary of Love by John Stark, and especially the marble game “Who Will My Lover Be?” I landed on politically correct, generous, and gourmet. Blair, the writer of the letter, is writing to Isaac who has these…
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#abandonedB2DBC No. 002: Turn the Key – The Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery in Washington D.C.
You are nervous, walking towards the opening reception of the first Asian American Literature Festival at The Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery in Washington D.C. It’s so much cleaner here than New York City. You traveled for hours to get there, excited to participate in writing workshops, readings, and panels. You don’t…
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The Best Books We’ve Read This Year
Just like last year, we asked our contributors, book clubbers, and readers to share the best books they read this year. We have 17 lists for you, consisting of 78 separate books and a whole bunch that we all loved. These are our favorite novels we read this year, but we’d love to hear about yours…
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Through Every Wall By Eileen Ramos
Author’s Note I haven’t written a short story in ages, though this is technically flash fiction. This is a mystical fairy tale for my #abandonedB2DBC project where I abandon books, literary magazines, small gifts, and my own written works in public for strangers to find and keep. It’s a guerrilla art project and a book…
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The Only Girl in China by Eric Qiao
I’m not a mystery/crime thriller kind of reader. I’m more drawn to literary and experimental novels. But Eric Qiao’s debut The Only Girl in China is definitely changing my TBR pile. It’s a fast-paced, succinct suspense that sucked me in from page one. I found myself eager at the end of each chapter to discover…
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#abandonedB2DBC No. 001: The Gift of Distraction – The Gulch in Nashville, Tennessee
You’re walking outside and it’s sunny and quite lovely. But your head is too distracted to notice the sunshine with all the mind tracks you’re on: a big fight with your partner, your strangely high cell phone bill, the milk you need to buy, the face of the beautiful woman you’re trying to recall. Then…
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The Best Books We’ve Read This Year
We’ve asked our contributors and book clubbers to share their favorite books they read this past year. We’ve got 17 of these great people to share their best reads, which makes up a list of 84 different novels that you might still want to try! If you’re curious about our favorite books from last year, you…
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Objects of Affection by Krishna Udayasankar
In Krishna Udayasankar’s debut full-length collection of poetry, “Objects of Affection,” the narrators of all the works are inanimate objects, observing their owners’ memories, motives, and present actions. These pieces are quite striking and deeply intriguing for normal, everyday items. Even the cover of Objects is outstanding and it’s just scattered fruit loops cereal on…
Bored to Death book club 