I'm extremely excited to interview author Amy Thomas, author of Paris, My Sweet (Sourcebooks, 2012) and now a new memoir, Brooklyn in Love: A Delicious Memoir of Food, Family, and Finding Yourself (Sourcebooks, 2018). We not only have the same publisher, but are also returned … [Read more...]
Ringing in the Year of the Dog
Last Saturday the kids and I celebrated the second day of Chinese New Year with friends at Chicago's Peninsula Hotel. We've been going there for afternoon tea around Chinese New Year for the last few years, but this is the first year we've been there for their lion dance. The … [Read more...]
An evening with Gloria Chao
It seemed like today would never get here, but it was finally the pub day for Gloria Chao's debut YA novel, American Panda (Simon Pulse, 2018)! I was so fortunate to read a review copy of American Panda months ago and am currently reading it now for the second time.Gloria had … [Read more...]
Out with the Rooster, In with the Dog
The Lunar New Year will be here in 11 days and we're starting early here. Last week, some friends gave me red envelopes and decorations and one (with my begging and pleading) asked her husband to bring back a Chinese New Year gift box of Blue Diamond almonds.First up: the red … [Read more...]
Book of the week–As Lie is to Grin
I saw As Lie is to Grin (Catapult, 2017) at my local public library and was intrigued from the book jacket. The protagonist, David, is an African American student at the University of Vermont, and flashes back to his high school days when he dated Melody, a young woman whose … [Read more...]
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