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> Tag: Celeste Ng

Many great elements, doesn’t QUITE stick the landing

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

February 4, 2023 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

Bird Gardner is the son of an Asian woman, Margaret Miu, and a white father, Ethan. The first part of the novel is an explanation of how Bird’s mother, Margaret, separated from their family. Margaret made an intentional decision to leave Ethan and Bird, rather than face forced separation. The concept of forced separation is at the heart of this story – much like The Handmaid’s Tale, this is a dystopian near-future United States in which actual horrors of our past are enacted upon citizens in […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Celeste Ng

booktrovert's CBR15 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Celeste Ng ·
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Another movie/show before the book

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

December 31, 2020 by thewheelbarrow Leave a Comment

My wife and I watched the show at the beginning of the pandemic, back around April and I really liked it. I was not sure if I would like the show but I usually start watching my wife’s shows halfway through and I start asking questions and she gets annoyed so I sat down with her from the beginning and it was great. The casting was excellent. I added the book to my to-read list before we finished the show and it took nearly six […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Celeste Ng

thewheelbarrow's CBR12 Review No:47 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Celeste Ng ·
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Best read with tissues handy

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

December 30, 2020 by TheShitWizard Leave a Comment

Everything I Never Told You isn’t the type of book I normally read, and nor was it what I expected at all – thinking I was getting some kind of murder mystery, what I got was a quietly devastating portrayal of a family hurting from all of its repressed hopes, dreams, desires and resentments. Lydia, the beloved eldest child of Marilyn and James Lee, is found dead in the lake near their home. Blond haired blue eyed Marilyn had always wanted to become a doctor, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Celeste Ng, family, Fiction, grief

TheShitWizard's CBR12 Review No:45 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Celeste Ng, family, Fiction, grief ·
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Thoughtfully burning down the house

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

July 8, 2020 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Adapted into a limited series by Amazon Prime, Ng’s book follows the intersecting lives of two families in Shaker Heights, Ohio- single mother Mia and her teenage daughter Pearl, and the Richardson family, parents Bill and Elena and their four teenagers Lexi, Trip, Moody and Izzy.  After Mia and Pearl become Elena’s tenants in her rental property, the two families gradually become more involved in each other’s lives- Moody and Pearl become fast friends, Mia agrees to be a part-time housekeeper for the Richardson’s and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 90s, cbr12bingo, Celeste Ng, little fires everywhere, nostalgia

Wanderlustful's CBR12 Review No:34 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 90s, cbr12bingo, Celeste Ng, little fires everywhere, nostalgia ·
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Celeste Ng, I Stand Corrected

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

January 20, 2020 by ardaigle 1 Comment

Confession time: when the lovely Borisanne gifted me with this book in this year’s CBR Book Exchange, I was disappointed. In her defense, it was definitely in my “to read” pile on Goodreads; however, in my defense I forgot it was there. Last year I read Celeste Ng’s “Everything I Never Told You” and I did NOT care for it. I gave it a two. So, I went into reading “Little Fires Everywhere” ready to dislike it but was stunned to discover I really REALLY […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: and also on tv, Celeste Ng, little fires everywhere, Motherhood, reese witherspoon book

ardaigle's CBR12 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: and also on tv, Celeste Ng, little fires everywhere, Motherhood, reese witherspoon book ·
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Talking Without Speaking, Hearing Without Listening

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

September 30, 2019 by Lisa Bee Leave a Comment

CBR11 Bingo Square: Birthday Originally I wanted to read Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere for the birthday bingo square, but since our library had this book available first, I figured it was worth a read. And it certainly hit on a few soft spots in my heart along the way. Emotions? Yeah, I have those in spades, and this book absolutely brought some of them out. Everything I Never Told You centers on a mixed-race Chinese American family named the Lee’s in the 1970’s, whose […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Birthday!, cbr11bingo, Celeste Ng

Lisa Bee's CBR11 Review No:33 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Birthday!, cbr11bingo, Celeste Ng ·
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