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Lunar New Year Love Story: A YA Graphic Novel about Fate, Family and Falling in Love | Gene Luen Yang

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Lunar New Year Love Story, by Gene Luen Yang (illustrated byLeUyen Pham) (2024)

Premise: A Vietnamese-American teenager is pulled in many directions after she learns of a family curse that means they are all destined to fail at love.

Review: This was a bit of a mixed bag for me, largely because there were a few too many things stuffed in this particular bag for my liking. Cont.

Mattsbookaday For me the best parts were the specificity of the cultural representation — particularly in the similarities and differences among East Asian Lunar New Year celebrations and in the mixture of indigenous and Christian themes in Vietnamese communities — and the moral of the story, which was not what one might expect from this kind of novel. But it did feel a bit over-stuffed.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5d

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LiseWorks

Broken Hearts | R.L. Stine

February 20th #FeelinTheLove Broken Love 💔 @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs ❤️💔💙 1mo

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ChelseaM6010

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#FeelinTheLove
Day 14. Valentines Day
#ValentinesDay

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Peanuts is timeless🩷 1mo

LoverOfLearning Love this!! So cute 1mo

LoverOfLearning I have a resident at the nursing home I work at who loved the peanuts! Always has the comics and coloring sheets up on her door! She asks me to print them for her based on the upcoming season/holiday. She has a few peanuts t-shirts! So fun! 1mo

ChelseaM6010 @LoverOfLearning that‘s so cute! I love that. 💜 3w

LoverOfLearning @ChelseaM6010 yes :) makes me so happy when she asks me to print some for her 😍 3w

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maich

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I think I've found true love.❤️❤️💝💛
After 22years dating, 12years living together and 6years parenting together. He still brings me rose every year for Valentine's Day.

#FeelinTheLove #ValentinesDay #TimlessLove
@alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @eggs

MemoirsForMe How sweet! ❤️ 2mo

kspenmoll ❤️❤️❤️ 2mo

TheBookHippie ♥️ 2mo

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maich @MemoirsForMe Thank you❤️ 1mo

maich @kspenmoll @TheBookHippie ❤️❤️❤️ 1mo

Eggs That‘s awesome 👏🏻 1mo

maich @Eggs thank you❤️ 1mo

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DebinHawaii

Bits of Joy: Over 100 Ideas That Will Make You Jump for Joy | Yvonne Conte

#FeelinTheLove

My #5JoysFriday list for this week& #ValentinesDay

1. Went to a workplace wellness conference yesterday & it was really informative. We did some breath work in the afternoon session & it was a good asthma breathing day for me which always gives me joy.🧘🏻‍♀️💨

2. Since I was already in town, I got my hair cut after the conference & not being “shaggy” gives me joy. ✂️

3. I stopped at Barnes & Noble after my haircut & got ⬇️

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

DebinHawaii … this Flow: A Book That Loves You for $10 as a Valentine‘s Day treat. It‘s a joy to collage with pretty paper & I love the self-care focus of this one. 🩵

4. Chocolate & this Lindor salted caramel bar gives me joy.🍫🤎

5. Poke again-this was a midweek treat. 🐟💙
I will get around to see your joys! Thanks for joining in! 💛🤗
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kspenmoll Deb your list makes me feel centered! Love your joys.💖 2mo

TheBookHippie Love all of this!!!! 2mo

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AnnCrystal 🙏💖💝💝💝💝. (edited) 2mo

Bookwormjillk Great list! 2mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💛💛💛 2mo

Eggs 💙❤️🩵 2mo

dabbe 🩶💚🩶 2mo

bookandbedandtea All of your joys sound lovely! 2mo

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