The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu by Mindy Hung
Initially, I read The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu back in May (?), but as is wont to happen in 2025, my brain erased all memory of everything I had read. So I started again a few months later and it was like revisiting a friend I hadn’t seen in forever. At first I was a bit anxious because I had positive feelings, but no memory. Then I got to a line that almost made me shoot coffee out my nose because it is a […]
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
Sandwich takes place over the course of a one-week family vacation on Cape Cod, at the same cottage our protagonist’s family has been visiting for one week every year. This time, our heroine Rocky is there with her two grown children, and her son’s girlfriend, her husband Nick, and a few days overlap with her parents – thus, she is the sandwich generation, with kids on one side and parents on the other. Also, she makes a lot of sandwiches for the beach days, because […]
What Fresh Hell is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You by Heather Corinna
I received What Fresh Hell is This? as an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. It publishes June 1, 2021. What Fresh Hell is This? Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You came to my attention following emmalita’s positive review of it earlier this month. The title alone intrigued me, what fresh hell is this is something I say in my day-to-day life, so an author that chose to use it as their title would very likely be an author I’d want to […]
