Book 588: Crashed – How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World – Adam...
What a tome. I requested a copy of this from the publisher back in August 2018 after reading this review from the NYTimes.* It took me three months to get to it and another month-and-a-half to actually...
View ArticleBook 592: China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians #2) – Kevin Kwan
As always seems to be the case, when one book comes in from being on hold at the library, ALL the books come in from being on hold. This came in at the same time that Check, Please! came in and...
View ArticleBook 593: Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians #3) – Kevin Kwan
Where do you go from crazy rich and insanely rich when you’re telling a story? Inheritance, obviously, and the intricacies, alliances, and feuds that stem from death, divorce, and childbirth. With his...
View ArticleBook 635: Severance – Ling Ma
I’ve been digesting this one for a little over a week as I write this (it’s posting much later than that). I very much enjoyed the work, but I’m still not sure how I feel about it. The story follows...
View ArticleBook 649: A Hero Born (Legends of the Condor Heroes #1) – Jin Yong
I was already thinking about requesting this on NetGalley when I received an email from the publisher, so I thought “why not?”* I might’ve been sucked in by the advertisement that this was the Chinese...
View ArticleBook 653: Off the Grid – Robert McCaw
I requested a copy of this from the publicist, when they reached out to me about my next read, Mike Papantonio’s Law and Addiction.* Unfortunately, I probably should’ve just stuck with the latter. This...
View ArticleBook 658: The Children of Harvey Milk – Andrew Reynolds
I’m not sure how I stumbled across this one, but when I did back in May I requested a copy from the publisher and they kindly obliged.* I was interested because of the subject matter, but also because...
View ArticleBook 929: Portrait of a Thief – Grace D. Li
I’m punching myself for not reading this book earlier AND for goofing off (aka knitting and Minecrafting) while reading it instead of blazing through it as it deserved. I’ve been sitting on this since...
View ArticleBook 937: Burn Rate – Andy Dunn
When someone in the marketing department at the publisher reached out about this because I’d positively reviewed David Chang’s Eat a Peach, I had to take a few minutes to really think if I wanted to go...
View ArticleBook 1,019: The West – Naoíse Mac Sweeney
This was a fascinating read. Mac Sweeney takes what you think you know about “Western Civilization” and attempts to flip it on its head via fourteen mini-biographies about historical figures, only a...
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