• What I'm reading

    The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

    Back in September I read Yangsze Choo’s The Ghost Bride back in September? (I have review on BookBub). The author announced last month that Netflix is making it into a Chinese drama series! There’s even a teaser and it looks BEAUTIFUL. I’m always looking for new shows to watch and if they’re girl-centric and take place somewhere new (to me), even better. Also her new book The Night Tiger came out today, February 12. “A sweeping historical novel about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers” in 1930s Malaysia. It’s on my tottering tower of TBR…

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    Books I Love

    The gothic, people-eating house in Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore  made me want to re-read York: The Shadow Cipher by Laura Ruby, with its trickster, quirky house and House of Many Ways by Dianna Wynne Jones, with its mysterious, dusty, infinite house. I loved them both more the second time around. This time I read York more slowly and took the time to appreciate how so many of the characters in this book are anxious in different ways. Tess has a therapy cat and meltdowns. Theo has robot moments and nightmares. Jaime is constantly drawing, which I saw as an artistic outpouring but also a way of dealing with his…

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    What I’m Reading: Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore

    Spoilers ahead. From the back cover: Jane has lived a mostly ordinary life, raised by her recently deceased aunt Magnolia, whom she counted on to turn life into an adventure. Without Aunt Magnolia, Jane is lost. So she’s easily swept away when a glamorous, capricious, and wealthy acquaintance from years ago asks Jane to accompany her to a gala at the extravagant island mansion called Tu Reviens. Jane remembers her aunt telling her: “If anyone ever invites to you to Tu Reviens, promise me that you’ll go.” What Jane doesn’t know is that the house will offer her five choices that could ultimately determine the course of her life. One…