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October 21, 2021

Fall Vibes on Book Covers

October 21, 2021

Top down view on coffee table with Australian paperback of edition of The Diviners by Libba Bray placed on the left bottom corner. A small wooden board is beside the top right corner of the book. A Nutella chocolate tart, dessert fork and cup of tea are on the wooden board. The photo has a text box overlay with the post title, "Fall Vibes on Book Covers, The Happy Place 5."This month’s topic of The Happy Place 5 is fall vibes. We decided to keep things open-ended to give ourselves a breather. I’ve technically taken an eight-month breather, and I’m barely surfacing again on the blogging front. Hah. But autumn is my favourite season. I love the hues of reds fading into yellows. Sadly, I live in the tropics. Instead of pretty colours, I contend with dreary monsoon thunderstorms. So, to cheer myself up, I turned to my bookshelves for my fall vibes picks.

· Categories: The Happy Place 5

October 14, 2021

WITH THE FIRE ON HIGH by Elizabeth Acevedo

October 14, 2021

Book cover & 5-star rating - With the Fire on High by Elizabeth AcevedoWith the Fire on High easily is one of my favourite books that I read this year. Emoni loves to cook and dreams of becoming a chef. That’s all I needed to know in order to borrow the audiobook. With the Fire on High offers so much more than a trope I can’t get enough of, though. It brings to light complicated relationships, the difficulty of balancing responsibilities and ambitions, and a huge dash of heart.

· Categories: Fiction Keywords: ambition, american authors, cooking, dating, diverse authors, diverse books, family life, family myth, fathers and daughters, friendship, grandmothers, high school, identity, inter-generations, relationships, teen mothers, travel

October 1, 2021

THE COUPLE by Helly Acton

October 1, 2021

Book cover & 4.5-star rating - The Couple by Helly ActonThe moment I saw the synopsis of The Couple, I knew in my bones that Helly Acton wrote this book for me. See, I love books that turn our social norms upside down and examine how life could be instead. Also, I basically spent my twenties single, which drew a lot of pity from friends. They made unsolicited comments, “Are you sure you don’t want to get married?” or “I’m happy to introduce you to someone!”

· Categories: Fiction Keywords: ambition, dating, diverse books, friendship, singleness, work life

February 11, 2021

A Series of New Beginnings

February 11, 2021

The Happy Place 5: New BeginningsThis month’s topic of The Happy Place 5 is new beginnings, particularly first book in series. We’re meant to share upcoming series were excited about but I’ve not been keeping up with new publications. Since I also own dozens of first books in series that I have yet to read, I decided to turn to my bookshelf. I picked out five series that I want to start this year, mostly based on how excited I was when I first acquired these books.

· Categories: The Happy Place 5

January 27, 2021

How to Access More Than One OverDrive Library on a Kobo

January 27, 2021

Kobo Forma and iPhone 6 showing ebook loans from OverDrive on the screens. Image is overlaid with a box in which the title and subtitle are stated. How to Access More Than One OverDrive Library on a Kobo: Bring all your ebook loans wherever you goFor the longest time I had two misconceptions about OverDrive and eReaders:

  1. I thought it was only possible to sync Kindle devices wirelessly with US libraries’ OverDrive catalogues.
  2. Somehow, I also thought that only one library catalogue could be linked with a Kobo device at a time.

Boy, was I wrong on both counts, and I’m more than happy to admit it. Now that I know better, and have figured out how to access more than one OverDrive library on a Kobo device, I appreciate my Kobo Forma even more than before.

· Categories: Products & Services

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