Book Ramblings from a Lifelong Bookworm

My Rating: 4.5 stars After reading and loving Thao Thai’s debut novel Banyan Moon when it came out in 2023, I’ve been excitedly waiting fo...

My Rating: 4 stars As those who follow my reviews probably know by now, I can be somewhat of a fanatic when it comes to the depiction of H...

My Rating: 3.5 stars Sarai Johnson’s debut Grown Women is a book club read and one that is right up my alley, since I have a particular f...

My Rating: 5 stars As an Ann Patchett fangirl, I will read anything she writes and while I’m not a completist of her works (yet), reading ...

My Rating: 5 stars I didn’t think that I could love another Elizabeth Strout character as much as I love Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton bu...

My Rating: 3.5 stars As the city of my birth, Hong Kong has always occupied a special place in my heart.   Of course, I still have relativ...

My Rating: 5 stars Tayari Jones’s latest novel is a beautifully rendered story of two motherless daughters – self-named “cradle friends” -...

My Rating: 5 stars When I first found out that Lily King would have a new book out this year, I was super excited, as I had read Writers a...

My Rating: 5 stars I can’t remember the last time I read an epistolary novel that had such a profound impact on me, to the point that I’m ...

My Rating: 3.5 stars I debated for a long time how best to rate this book.   On the one hand, there were elements of the story that I real...

My Rating: 5 stars This year has been a chaotic one for me: in addition to being super busy at work, I’ve also had some family issues I had ...

  My Rating: 4.5 stars A couple weeks ago, I had made a plan to take advantage of the vacation time I would have during the last two weeks...