pickThis was a cute YA romance about a teenage blogger and a boy who spends his time outside of school helping in his family‘s traditional tea shop. Online, they‘re enemies, but you can guess how it goes when they unknowingly meet in real life to work together for small businesses in Chinatown threatened by a corporate buyout.
One book completed during #DeweysReadathon #DeweyOct
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pick#SummerSouls Day 19: In the Author‘s Note, Eva Chen spoke about the “meteoric rise in anti-Asian sentiment” during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, inspiring her to write this story, paradoxically at a time when she was advising her own parents to wear #sunglasses – and essentially remain invisible so as to not let people realize they are Asians. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-oeu
pickGood biography of Anna May Wong.
pickCharlie works as a dishwasher in the noodle restaurant where her dad works but wants more, so she applies for a receptionist job at a dance studio. She never expects where this will end up taking her. This novel has obvious plot points and was too romance focused for my personal taste, but I enjoyed it. It shows the pull between current and traditional expectations well.
pickA truly fascinating account of Chinese-American history as traced through the writer‘s family, through five generations, many who lived in a building in NYC‘s Mott Street. I was in awe with the amount of research that Ava Chin dug up about. She manages to track down their Chinese Exclusion files on both sides of her family. “They call it exclusion…but it is not exclusion, it is extermination.”
My haul from the Raise A Reader book sale - it‘s on again tomorrow. Anyone see a favourite book? 📚 where should I start? ❤️📚🐉
