Tag: adult book reviews

Hunger: Book Review

*This post contains Amazon affiliate links.  Title: Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Author: Roxane Gay Publisher: Harper Genre/Category: Memoir, POC Author, WOC Author Summary: Gay writes a brutally honest memoir of her body, of...

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The Liminal People: Book Review

If you’re a long time reader, you may remember me doing some posts on books in the past. I have wanted to do book reviews for a really long time, but always got intimidated by people who write lengthy reviews because...

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My Favorite Reads of 2015 Part 2

Since I have so many books I loved from 2015, I had to split the list in half. If you missed Part 1, don’t worry! It’s the internet and you can read that after! Here then are more of my favorite reads from 2015 in no...

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My Favorite Reads of 2015 Part 1

Apparently, I haven’t posted about books (not including Chinese readers, obviously) since May 2015. May 2015!! (Ok, I did post about graphic novels a few weeks ago, but there were only two.) So, since I read 140 books last...

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The Books That Silently Judge Me

Now I know it may seem that I read a ton of books (and I do). But what I don’t often mention is that in addition to the large pile of books I plow through quickly, I have a separate, dustier pile that either sits on the...

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My Sleep Deprivation

It’s my own fault. There were no babies crying in the middle of the night. No emergencies. No fire drills. None of that. Just me, an old friend, some books, Chinese learning materials, and a cache of DVR’d episodes....

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Commercial Break

I’ve been caught up re-reading (for the third or fourth time) The Hunger Games series and I’m on the last book so I really can’t do anything else right now until I’m done. Even though one of the benefits...

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Here, Have Some Lists

I’ve been single-parenting it this week while Hapa Papa’s been in London on vacation for work and quite frankly, I’m pretty exhausted. Usually, my mom would come over and help but she’s in Taiwan until...

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Books I Will Force My Kids to Read

Yes, I know. Forcing my kids to read certain books is just guaranteeing they won’t like them. (This theory has not worked for snacks and desserts, however. They like their forced cakes and ice cream just fine.) However, I...

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I’m Afraid of Twilight

I have never read the Twilight or 50 Shades series – not because I think they’re stupid (which from what I’ve gathered from Wikipedia and generally being alive, I do), but because I am afraid I will secretly...

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