Book Ramblings from a Lifelong Bookworm

My Rating: 4 stars In her first ever sequel Big Little Truths , Liane Moriarity takes us back to the world of one of her most popular book...

My Rating: 4 stars This book was wild and honestly unlike anything I’ve read before!   From the first page, we already know that one of th...

My Rating: 4 stars The Land and Its People is David Sedaris’s newest essay collection, published just last month, and the second collecti...

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: 3 stars The Fine Art of Lying is Alexandra Andrews’s highly anticipated sophomore novel, coming 5 years after her debut Who is...

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: 4 stars I enjoyed this memoir from the founder of the Well-Read Black Girl book club, Glory Edim, where she discusses the books...

My Rating: 4.5 stars Nicole Chung’s second memoir is a poignant love letter of sorts to her parents, both of whom pass away less than one ...

My Rating: 5 “radiant” stars! I’ve been feeling a bit nostalgic recently, so I decided to go back and revisit a childhood favorite: E.B. W...

My Rating: 3.5 stars I’ve been feeling a bit of overwhelm lately looking at my ridiculously long TBR list, which I keep adding books to fa...

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: 4 stars  It is not lost on me that we are almost halfway through the month of February and so far, I have only finished 1 book (c...

My Rating: 4 stars Going into this book, I wasn’t sure what to expect at first.   I mean, I knew the basic outline of the story: an elderl...

My Rating:  4 stars My celebration of Jane Austen’s 250 th birthday continues with more Austen-centered books.   This time around, I chos...

My Rating: 5 stars From its publication date in 2020, I’ve had a copy of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet both on my TBR and on my bookshe...

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: 3.5 stars Before I go into my thoughts on this book, one thing I feel compelled to start with is that I’m a bit of a cynic when...