First of all, I want to apologise because I basically haven’t read any emails, the main reason being that my hands are killing me, and I don’t even know if I was going to have posts for this week, but so far we have made it. Considering I completed them in a day and a half, I still have it somewhat. I still have 2,100, which is the most I have had unseen ever.
Hey Everyone
As you know, I’ve been trying a new thing for me, where I share a book I love and provide a free eBook link to it, if possible.
Before I share my thoughts on Isabel in Bloom by Mae Respicio, I’m aware that this wasn’t written for my age group, but I truly felt for Isabel, being moved from one place to another without having a conversation about it, as if her emotions and thoughts didn’t matter. Additionally, she was left to figure things out on her own.
I’m not fond of quickness in terms of friendships. She went from close to being bullied to what feels like the click of a finger, and everything is perfect. I was two years older when I moved schools, and relationships don’t get fixed like magic in real life. I love that the gardens gave Isabel the connections to her grandparents in a time she needed it the most.
First Lines:
Home
I walk with my grandfather
through
a thousand shades of green
plants dressed in dew
flowers flooded in light
as birds fill the trees with their
wild loud songs.
Our garden
comes alive
in mornings.
Lolo drags a hose
the water trickling slow.
We pause at a planter of
Jasmine
Sampaguita.
Weeks ago when I found out
I’d have to say goodbye
he made me plant it
So when you return
you’ll see how it’s grown, he said
Goodreads Blurb:
A Filipina-American girl discovers a connection between her two homes through a culinary garden in this middle grade novel that celebrates nourishment and growth—both in our lives and in nature.
Twelve-year-old Isabel is the new kid in her San Francisco middle school. It’s the first time in many years that she’ll be living with her mother again. Mama’s job in the US allowed Isabel and her grandparents to live more comfortably in the Philippines, but now Isabel doesn’t really know her own mother anymore.
Making new friends in a new city, a new country, is hard, but joining the gardening and cooking club at school means Isabel will begin to find her way, and maybe she too, will begin to bloom.
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Alex
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