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Bitter, Sweet, Love, Family

Hundred Years of Happiness by Thanhha Lai

April 4, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I had many emotions and thoughts while reading Hundred Years of Happiness. I was wondering the nationality of the family (you learn Vietnamese) as I was curious where the food came from and where the traditional represented (colors are important to cultures and I was wondering why white was not used).  Then, I would become emotional as I realized this is not really a happy story, but a bittersweet one about the love of a grandchild and grandparents. And where one grandparent, the grandmother, is […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Health, Romance Tagged With: dementia, Emotions & Feelings, family, grandmother and granddaughters, grandparents, Kim Lien, Multigenerational, Nguyen Quang, Thanhha Lai, United States - Asian American & Pacific Islander, Vietnam

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:134 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Health, Romance · Tags: dementia, Emotions & Feelings, family, grandmother and granddaughters, grandparents, Kim Lien, Multigenerational, Nguyen Quang, Thanhha Lai, United States - Asian American & Pacific Islander, Vietnam ·
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Family is everything.

Butterfly Yellow by Thanhha Lai

February 6, 2021 by bonnie Leave a Comment

I’m a huge fan of Thanhha Lai, so when I saw this book on clearance at my favorite indie bookstore, I was more than eager to snatch it up. The description intrigued me, so I am glad that the book lived up to my high expectations. Lai is a really talented writer, and here she embodies several characters and voices that could not be more completely different. Hằng is a young woman who has survived unspeakable horrors trying to get to the United States. At […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: #weneeddiversebooks, bonnie, Thanhha Lai

bonnie's CBR13 Review No:15 · Genres: Young Adult · Tags: #weneeddiversebooks, bonnie, Thanhha Lai ·
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Another longer-than-anticipated reviewing hiatus ended!

Listen, Slowly by Thanhha Lai

October 22, 2016 by bonnie 2 Comments

Hey, crew! I’m back again. Hopefully, I can keep up with my reviews. Like I said, Goodreads is a better bet at this point, because almost all of my reading now takes place at bedtime, thanks to my three adjunct jobs (SO MUCH GRADING). I’ve got some major catching up to do. Let’s start with some children’s lit: I’m a huge fan of Thanha Lai’s novel in verse, Inside Out and Back Again, so I was eager to hear about her new novel that was […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: bonnie, children's lit, novel-in-verse, Thanhha Lai

bonnie's CBR8 Review No:112 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: bonnie, children's lit, novel-in-verse, Thanhha Lai ·
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