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I'll Be There for You: The One about Friends by Kelsey Miller

China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan

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CBR11 Bingo: Cannonballer Says I’ll Be There for You: The One about Friends; Kelsey Miller Friends has been all over the internet this month in anticipation of the 25th anniversary of Thursday Night’s Must See TV darling. Kelsey Miller’s charming look into the television series has been on my list since my sister, Badkittyuno, read it a few months back but she is far from the only Cannonballer recommending this one. “Some things don’t change. Friends is a reminder of that, and that’s why so many of us reach for it in times of grief or fear, when catastrophe strikes or when […]

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9/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:94 |

“Nowhere in the world are there to be found people richer than the Chinese.” ~ IBN BATUTA (FOURTEENTH CENTURY)

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

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CBR11 Bingo: Travel Like most people I fell head over heels in love with the rich world director Jon M Chu created with last year’s Crazy Rich Asians but I hadn’t gotten around to reading the novel it was based on. In a way I am glad I saw the movie first because it pales in comparison to the source materiel and I would have probably been disappointed. Whenever I read the book after watching the movie I find it a lot easier to enjoy both mediums (which makes the decision to read the sequel, China Rich Girlfriend, a difficult […]

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8/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:79 |

Rich People Problems Comes with Backstory

Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan

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As I have stated in a previous post I love learning about other cultures. Rich People Problems, the third book in the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, provides readers like me with insight into a number of different cultures as it tells the story of the Young family and all the relatives on the outskirts.  While the previous books focus more on Nick and Rachel this book also tells more about Kitty Pong and adds to the backstory of Su Yi, Nicks grandmother and the family matriarch. The culture that is most foreign to my own and the largest aspect of […]

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2/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

Rich People Problems – Neat wrap-up for the trilogy

Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan

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The end of the “Crazy Rich Asians” trilogy is a mostly satisfying romp, with more high drama and preposterous situations that we have come to love from Kwan. The characters are consistent from the previous books: Rachel is sweet and wooden, Eleanor is domineering and awful, Nick is charming and charming, Astrid is otherworldly, Eddie is a screeching gasbag. And so forth. Su Yi is on her deathbed and in this final act, we find out what happens to her estate, and all of the couples, those happily married, “happily married” and otherwise. There are a few twists and surprises, […]

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2/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |

I am genuinely glad I finished out the series

Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan

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So I reviewed and loved the first one, was supremely let down by the second, and came into the third with low expectations and hey, it surpassed them! In my head, it went down like this – Crazy Rich Asians was a blockbuster success, so the publishers jumped on Kwan to write more. China Rich Girlfriend was his initial “wtf fine fine fine!” with all the prep and consideration that allowed but he had that plus more time to get Rich People Problems done. And maybe it was the low expectations, but this one felt just as much fun as the first, with some […]

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1/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:12 |

Crazy, Rich, Crazy Rich

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

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The Fug Girls made me read this.  The photos of the premiers of Crazy Rich Asians were all just so glam.  I obviously had to see the movie.  I mean:   But I can’t see the movie if I haven’t read the book.  So I obviously had to read the book. By now you probably know the main plot: woman (Rachel) goes to Singapore to meet boyfriend’s (Nick) family.  Turns out he’s rich like whoa.  She is blindsided by the money, the lifestyle, and the toxic reactions by everyone – mom (Eleanor), aunties, eligible bachelorettes – to their relationship.  She […]

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12/9/2018 's CBR10 Review No:4 |

Crazy Good: lives up to the crazy hype

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

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The hot picks shelf at my library is a thing to behold. Even when I am there just to attend book club, or to bring the kiddo and I “don’t need any books” this display on the way in and out always catches my eye. I of course had heard of the phenomenon (both film, and book) Crazy Rich Asians but hadn’t picked it up yet. However, yet another book club I am in has it on its list and I am a sucker for getting pretend-doesn’t-really-matter “credit” for reading a book, so it was at the forefront of my […]

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11/18/2018 's CBR10 Review No:41 |

The book was absolutely NOT better

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

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#CBR10Bingo: The Book was Better?  Spoiler Warning! This has already been reviewed a ton of times – there will be some vague spoilers, but nothing that should ruin the film or the book for anyone. Rachel Chu is an economics professor in New York. Her boyfriend of two years, Nick Young, a history professor at the same university, invites her to go to Asia with him for the summer, to attend his best friend’s wedding. Rachel has no idea that Nick’s family is one of the wealthiest and most influential in Singapore and that most of his family, friends and acquaintances are […]

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10/22/2018 's CBR10 Review No:90 |


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