Book Ramblings from a Lifelong Bookworm

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 stars I’ve been wanting to read one of Jesse Q. Sutanto’s books for ages, so of course I was overjoyed when one of my book cl...

My Rating: 4 stars  As I continue my audiobook journey this year, I’ve been very selective in terms of choosing which memoirs (especially ce...

My Rating: 3.5 stars I recently started getting into audiobooks because I was seriously feeling the overwhelm of having a mile-high TBR an...

    My Rating: 4.5 stars I’ve had Susan Meissner’s books on my TBR for quite some time, but it wasn’t until recently that I got the chance...

 My Rating:  3.5 stars   Having read all of Alice Feeney's previous books, I of course couldn't pass up her latest,  Good Bad Girl ...

My Rating: 4 stars This interesting memoir from New York Times book critic Dwight Garner came out last month and while it initially wasn...

My Rating:  5 stars As soon as I turned the last page of Pulitzer Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen's new memoir, my first reactio...

My Rating: 4 stars I've wanted to read Tan Twan Eng's works for years, ever since a few bookish friends of mine read both his previo...

My Rating:  3.5 stars Now that I have a little bit of a break from the demands of work and school, I am hoping to get caught back up on th...

My Rating:  3.5 stars Amy Chua's debut novel  The Golden Gate  is an ambitious work of historical fiction that weaves together many th...

My Rating:  4.5 stars I loved William Kent Krueger's previous stand- alone novel  This Tender Land  and since finishing that book, I...

My Rating:  4 stars I had heard so many great things about Alice Hoffman's works, but didn't get the chance to read anything by her ...

My Rating:  3 stars I have such mixed feelings about this book.  On the one hand, I really liked the story and absolutely appreciated the w...

My Rating:  3.5 stars This was an interesting collection of 15 short stories by Alexandra Chang, whose previous novel  Days of Distraction  ...

My Rating:  5 stars Ann Patchett has done it again!  One of my favorite authors on the planet has once again written a poignant, beautiful ...

My Rating:  3 stars I read Elizabeth Acevedo's YA novel-in-verse  The Poet X  in book club a few years back and absolutely loved it.  I...

My Rating:  3 stars I was drawn to this story initially because of the bookish premise.  After twenty five year old Takako loses her boyfrie...

My Rating: 4 stars This was a unique read for me — not in terms of subject matter of course, as I've read plenty of books over the year...