Hi, friends! Can’t believe Q1 of 2025 has come and gone already… I am happy for the longer days and spring weather we’ve been having despite the pollen (I have been medicated regularly for days)! SAY NOTHING by Patrick Radden Keefe A bit embarrassing but I told a lot of people about this already—I was one of those people who didn’t know Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland were two separate countries (until last year, gasp). I had read a number of books set in both Ireland and Northern Ireland but always thought Northern Ireland was Northern part of Ireland, sort of like New England region of the US. That…

Hi, friends! February was a short month but I read quite a bit, though a couple of my reads are technically not real books… here’s everything I read last month: THE MAKING OF ASIAN AMERICA by Erika Lee Asian Americans are often left out of American history, and it’s important for me that I make efforts to seek out stories about Asian people in America. The Making of Asian America may be the most recent, comprehensive work about Asian American History as it covers events that predate the founding of the United States all the way through mid-2010s. Unsurprisingly, I learned so much while reading The Making of Asian America–the…