Title/Author: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Monero-Garcia Publisher: Random House In a nutshell (Publisher): The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town…
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Ever heard of an African Samurai? Neither have I, until now! Jee briefly reviews #AfricanSamurai : The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan by #ThomasLockley & #GeoffreyGirard @Hanover_Square #NetGalley #eARC #MedievalHistory #biography
Title/Author(s): African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan by Thomas Lockley & Geoffrey Girard Publisher: Hanover Square Press In a nutshell (Publisher): The remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society. When Yasuke arrived in Japan…
Are you ready for something really, REAAALLY DIFFERENT & absurd? Jee suspends belief & reviews #TearsofTheTrufflePig by #FernandoAFlores #NetGalley #eARC #FSGbooks #literaryfiction #HispanicAmericanFiction
Title/Author: Tears of the Trufflepig by Fernando A. Flores Publisher: Hanover Square Press In a nutshell (Publisher): One of Lit Hub and The Millions‘s Most Anticipated Books of 2019, one of Buzzfeed and Tor.com‘s Books to Read This Spring, and one of the Chicago Review of Books‘ Best New Books of May A parallel universe. South Texas. A third border wall might…
Jee reviews #MiracleCreek by @AngieKimWriter @fsgBooks @Netgalley #Netgalley #eARC #fiction #courtroomdrama
Title/Author: Miracle Creek by Angie Kim Publisher: FSG Books In a nutshell (Publisher): My husband asked me to lie. Not a big lie. He probably didn’t even consider it a lie, and neither did I, at first . . . In rural Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental medical treatment device known as…
Jee reviews #HouseOnFire by #BonnieKistler #AtriaBooks #NetGalley #eARC #GeneralFiction #WomensFiction
Title/Author: House on Fire by Bonnie Kistler Publisher: Atria Books In a nutshell (Publisher): Divorce lawyer Leigh Huyett knows all too well that most second marriages are doomed to fail. But five years in, she and Pete Conley have a perfectly blended family of her children and his. To celebrate their anniversary, they grab some…
Jee reviews #MotherCountry by #IrinaReyn #Netgalley #StMartinsPress #eARC #WomensFiction
Title/Author: Mother Country by Irina Reyn Publisher: St Martin’s Press In a nutshell: Nadia’s daily life in south Brooklyn is filled with small indignities: as a senior home attendant, she is always in danger of being fired; as a part-time nanny, she is forced to navigate the demands of her spoiled charge and the preschooler’s…
Jee’s #bookreview of #TheDreamers by Karen Thompson Walker #RandomHouse #literaryfiction #netgalley #eARC #UNPOPULARopinion
Title: The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker Publisher: Random House Verdict: 3.5/5 Publication date: Jan 15, 2019 In a nutshell (Publisher): One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep—and doesn’t wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her…
Jee’s #bookreview of #OnceUponARiver by #DianeSetterfield @DianeSetterfie1 #NetGalley #AtriaBooks #eARC #literaryfiction
Title: Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield Publisher: Atria Books Verdict: 5/5 Publication day: Dec 04, 2018 In a nutshell (Publisher): On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes place. The regulars are telling stories to while away the dark hours, when the door bursts open on…
Jee’s #WWWWednesday!
It’s WWW Wednesday! What are you reading? What did you finish reading? What’s next?
Jee’s #bookreview of #TheLibraryBook by #SusanOrlean #SimonandSchuster #Netgalley #nonfiction #eARC
Title: The Library Book by Susan Orlean Publisher: Simon & Schuster Verdict: 4/5 Publication day: 10/16/18 In a nutshell: On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the LA Public Library. The fire burned for more than 7 hours, engulfing the library in its ferocity. By the time it was extinguished, it…
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