MadelineI have been looking forward to the Goodreads Awards all year. I’ve been preparing for it by reading as many books I think may be on the list. When the nominees came out, I sped …
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5 Books That Shifted My Perception In A Big Way
I like my fair share of fluffy books that don’t carry a huge weight. And then there are these books. Books that shifted my perception in a big way. These are the books that have …
The Pull of the Stars: Historical Fiction That Feels Familiar
The Pull of the Stars was both way too familiar and in a very different world. On one hand, the story follows a deadly flu similar to the one we are experiencing in 2020. On …
My Dark Vanessa: A Frightening Story of Growing Up
For me, My Dark Vanessa is to teacher student relations as The Hate U Give and Such A Fun Age was to the Black Lives Matter movement. Neither I understood because I was not a …
Dear Edward: What Happens When A Boy Is The Sole Survivor
It is my favorite time of year. No, not Thanksgiving, not Christmas. It’s the Goodreads best books of 2020 awards. My goal this year was to read as much of the books as I possibly …
The Successful Underdog – Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
I tend to gravitate toward books about Asia, specifically China. I also gravitate toward business books. Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built is about both. It was inspirational and it was informative. It gave …
How Much of These Hills Is Gold: Never A Happy Moment
How Much Of These Hills Is Gold starts with the wild west and two young Chinese girls, Lucy and Sam, are found on their own with no parental guidance, and as we find out later, …
The Glass Hotel: A Hotel, A Life Of Luxury, A Scam Exposed, And A Death
It took a few hours of listening to The Glass Hotel before I began to understand how unliniar this book is. It was not until the end that it’s clear how a hotel, a life …
Shanghai Girls: Beautiful Girls From China to Unglamorous Hollywood
I’ve read two books from Lisa See, both have been written about here, The Island of Sea Women and Snowflower and the Secret Fan. But I had not read her most popular book about beautiful …
Such A Fun Age: Relationships and Hidden Biases Exposed
Such a Fun Age is a book full of subtle and hidden biases exposed after a slight but traumatic event. The book opens up with an African American babysitter, Emira, taking the toddler she is …