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A Book Mostly About Food Reminds You to Eat the Rich

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

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Re-read because I came across the clip at the very beginning on YouTube and then wanted to re-read the book and now it is an hour and a half later and this was a BIG mistake. UGH. After having read Sex and Vanity I also thought of this book fondly, but upon re-reading I’m forced to admit it’s actually not as great as I remember. I think the parts that are tbe best are all the middling bits that aren’t plot-driven–where Kwan is sharing peeks into Singaporean […]

Chosen Ones By Veronica Roth

Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth

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I unfortunately wasn’t clicking with this book, about 45% of the way through. I think I was, first off, expecting something a bit different? I actually kept thinking about The Hunger Games while reading this, and the other books in the trilogy, as examples of PTSD done really well. Far be it from me to judge the realism of PTSD description, but in comparison to that series, I think Roth misses the PTSD mark and jumps to what reads as moodiness. I think this book would have […]

The League of Extraordinary Women Strikes Again

A Rogue of One's Own by Evie Dunmore

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Hmm I feel bad giving this the same rating as the prior entry in the series, Bringing Down the Duke, because while similar this book is so very much better. It is, like the first book, at its heart a romance novel but like Serious and Literary, which you can tell because it gets a proper book release and the cover has the cartoon characters as opposed to a realistic drawing. No one is denying that part of it, there are tropes galore (the dowdy one […]

A Ostentatious Room With a Boring View

Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan

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Two things. First is, while I didn’t read the summary for this book ahead of time, the A Room with a View vibes are VERY strong with this one (Lucy/George should just be the giveaway). Happy to report, Ms. Rabin, that your lessons on this book were vivid and strong enough to last many many years later. Second is, a friend of mine pointed out that the romance element of Crazy Rich Asians was pretty weak. This is not a false statement! Nick Young is a sketched out man, […]

A Book Written For Me

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

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In order, this book will appeal to: 1. People who are no longer in NYC, and who miss it 2. People who are in NYC 3. People with some passing familiarity of NYC from having visited/lived in NJ growing up While it was pointed out to me that this compromises millions upon millions of people, it is also true that I, personally, find it difficult to imagine the vast majority of people (i.e. those who fall into #4, Everyone else, including one time tourists, anyone […]

Turn This Into Another Movie Stat

Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas

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CW: pregnancy, abortion (my speaking about it, not an indication of what is in the book!) This is decidedly not a spoiler-y because everyone and their mother has read The Hate U Give by now. If you haven’t, I’m very confused as to why you are reading a review for the Lucas-esque prequel-that-was-written after. Again, it is no spoiler that Maverick is going to have two kids. The story begins VERY much in media res with him finding out that Iesha is pregnant with Seven, so much so that […]



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