I managed a bit of reading in between arriving and walking around. It's so hot just now, 32 degrees!
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Portrait of a Thief: A Novel | 
I managed a bit of reading in between arriving and walking around. It's so hot just now, 32 degrees!
I am going to Florence for a long weekend starting tomorrow and taking these books with me. Already started the tagged book already.
This week's book recommendation videos feature Asian American authors in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! This week and next I'll be highlighting great YA and adult books by wonderful authors! Please give them a view and a like! I appreciate all the support! 💙 📚
YA Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3bZ0FZ-AHk
Adult Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyRnhcfBpD0&t=61s
so-soI anticipate a heist book to be sharp, funny, snarky - where I root for the criminals to get one over on selfish museum curators hoarding undeserved riches. There‘s story and history here that could work and with tweaking be successfully adapted to screen, but as is, these 5 Chinese-American interconnected Ivy League Gen-Zer‘s desire to return Zodiac Heads to China in exchange for $50 million, fell flat for me.
Chaplin and I are hoping to finish this one soon - it is EXCELLENT so far! 😍 #catsoflitsy #littenkitten #chaplin
so-soThis book was a disappointment. It has a fun premise, but the author makes it feel derivative rather than believable, then drags out the second half for no apparent reason. There are moments of brilliance here, and I feel like this could have been a really good book if the editor had pushed the author more. This felt like a early draft.
Starting this one next! 💕📚💕 I keep seeing it being talked about everywhere, do I thought I'd give it a try! 😃 Happy Monday, littens! #catsoflitsy #littenkitten #rumpel
Finished two books today! Excited to have freed up my reading to start Love on the Brain and Siren Queen though tbh 😅
Little man just reached up to hold on to my overalls and is making it very hard to concentrate on my book (which, if I'm being honest, I was having a hard time concentrating on anyway).
so-soThe slick Chen siblings assemble a group of fellow college students to pull off a great art heist to reclaim looted Chinese artwork to China. With five narrators and some unfortunate head-hopping and uneven pacing, this isn‘t quite the novel I expected. But some scenes really shine and I especially enjoyed Daniel‘s arc. The romances are easy to see coming but some of the angst gets repetitive. A good conversation starter for sure! Available now!
panUgh! I should‘ve listened to Cindy! This book DRAGGED and devolved into angsty whining at the end, which sealed the pan. The #audiobook production is really poor, too.
Five Chinese-American college students set out to steal back the artifacts from the Summer Palace in Beijing. The palace burned during colonial times and the artifacts sit in Western museums. What could‘ve been a great heist caper or a look at colonialism was neither and sucked!
A wide range of genres this weekend, which is pretty typical for me: a heist novel, a memoir, romance, and contemporary fiction.
#WeekendReading @Andrew65
Reading with my favorite little man
1. Portrait of a Thief and Where the Wild Ladies Are
2. Both, for sure!
3. I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
#WeekendReads
pickRepresentation matters and as a Chinese American child of first gen parents, I feel so seen. Also, the story was fun and the twist was both expected and unexpected. Very minor quibbles, but I will say the Chens seem a wee toxic. Hopefully they‘ve changed.
