Book Ramblings from a Lifelong Bookworm

My Rating: 3.5 stars I decided to pick up Jackie Chan’s memoir not because I’m a fan (in fact, quite the opposite – he’s actually one of m...

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: 5 stars Prior to Crazy Rich Asians , I actually had never heard of Jimmy O. Yang, but after watching and loving that movie, I s...

My Rating: 4 stars I had heard about this book when it first came out in 2018 and over the past couple years, I kept hearing the book recom...

 My Rating:  4 stars As I've mentioned in previous reviews of self-help books that I've read, I'm always a bit weary when I pic...

My Rating: 5 stars I read  Beartown   for the first time this weekend (I know, I’m late to the party, as usual) and was absolutely blown awa...

My Rating:  4 stars Full disclosure:  self-help books aren't usually my cup of tea.  Not that there is anything wrong with self-help boo...

My Rating:  3 stars I had actually heard about this book when it first came out several years ago, but never got the chance to read it.  A...

My Rating:  4.5 stars   Last month, when I found out that author Jesmyn Ward started a book club on Literati, I immediately went to go check...

My Rating: 5 stars  **After watching (and hearing) Elizabeth Acevedo perform a segment from her book during an author chat after I read th...