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“Remember, Vera reminds herself, your ass is bad. Very bad. And that is a good thing.”

Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man) - Vera Wong #2 by Jesse Q. Sutanto

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I often make mystery comparisons to one of the greats, Angela Lansbury’s Jessica Fletcher in Murder She Wrote. But it’s not a comparison I make lightly, because that show and character brings me ALL the joy, and so does this book. So, this is Jessica Fletcher, if she was a 60 year old Chinese tea shop owner in San Francisco who knows more and better than anyone else. Whereas Jessica is subtle, Vera is anything but. She is pushy, demanding, and downright insulting, but the found […]

Review Part 7 I Don’t Think I’m Going to Make It

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer

How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley

Here After by Amy Lin

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

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Book 31: Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock Rough Review: 4 stars. I have so many thoughts about this one, but they’re all over the place and I’m afraid I won’t remember them all, but I’ll try to put them in some sort of order. This is the third book read for my genetic counselling book club in 2025, which is a book club I found through linked in when I was still researching and applying for GC master’s programs, […]

Murder, Tea and Chinese Food

Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man) by Jesse Q. Sutanto

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I quite enjoyed the first Vera Wong novel so I was excited to see there was a sequel coming out this month. And yet, I admit I was a little worried going into this novel. Jesse Q. Sutanto has another series that is slightly over the top but for that one, the second novel just took things so over the top, that the premise didn’t work for me and I stopped reading it. I’m happy to say that Vera Wong doesn’t go down that route. […]

Sometimes all you need is a nosy, old lady

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

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Once again, I was blindly looking for another audiobook to listen to in my car. This time I stumbled upon Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (2023) by Jesse Q. Sutanto. I had not heard of it, but it had some good reviews and I was a little desperate for something that was immediately available from my library. Fortunately, I was pleasantly surprised. Although the mystery portion of the book was a little lacking, the characters and the storyline were engaging and fun. Vera Wong lives by […]

Rom com + murder mystery + wedding = chaos

Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q Sutanto

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CBR 16 Bingo – Bananas. If a rom-com mixed with a murder mystery happening at a wedding isn’t bananas, I don’t know what is! Like many of my bingo reads this year, this book has been on my TBR for a while, and I used bingo as a reason to finally read it. This isn’t the type of book I’d usually read, but it came recommended and seemed like it could be fun, so I added it to my TBR and eventually picked it up. […]

Sipping Tea and Solving Mysteries While Eating Delicious Chinese Food

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

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This was a cute, low-stakes cozy fantasy with a great cover that really fits the vibe of the novel. It features Vera Wong, a Chinese immigrant and widow who owns a rundown teahouse that doesn’t get much traffic. She has a distant relationship with her grown son, probably due to frequent nagging texts like this: “Tilly, are you awake? It is 4:31 AM, very late. When I was your age, I wake up at 4AM every morning to cook breakfast for Ah Gong and Ah […]



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