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Another movie/show before the book

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

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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 […]

Best read with tissues handy

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

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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, […]

Thoughtfully burning down the house

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

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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 […]

Celeste Ng, I Stand Corrected

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

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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 […]

Talking Without Speaking, Hearing Without Listening

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

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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 […]



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