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A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing
A review of Alice Evelyn Yang’s A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing, and what Asian American children inherit when parents stay silent about history.
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Building 903 by Lois Lowry Review
Honest book review of Lois Lowry’s Building 903: a middle-grade dystopian about banned books, twins Tessa and Theo, and parallels to The Giver.
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An Empire in the Clouds by Ai Jiang
Review of Ai Jiang's An Empire in the Clouds (Titan, 2026): a slow, reflective sci-fi fantasy of masks, Chinese opera, Mazu and drowning empires.
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Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
Genre: Horror
Release Date: 7 January 2025
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She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
Genre: YA Horror
Release Date: 28 February 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury YA
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Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley
Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley
Genre: Memoir
Release Date: 25 February 2025
Publisher: Picador
Format: Hardcover
Source: LibraryBuy
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Whidbey by T Kira Madden
Whidbey by T Kira Madden
Genre: Crime Mystery
Release Date: 10 March 2026
Publisher: Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
Source: Purchased
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What Feeds Below by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne
What Feeds Below by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne
Genre: YA Horror
Release Date: 6 October 2026
Publisher: Bindery Books
Format: EPUB
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Remembrance by Sara Hayes Dietz
Remembrance by Sara Hayes Dietz
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Release Date: 15 January 2025
Publisher: Fire & Feast Books
Format: Paperback
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Shine for the Fat Lady
A personal essay-style review of Salinger's Franny and Zooey—exploring art, ego, love, and how this book changed my entire life path
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The surprising thing Taiwan Travelogue taught me about myself
A review of Taiwan Travelogue and the surprising personal reckoning it sparked—on colonialism, nostalgia, and loving a homeland you've also exoticized
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The River has Roots
by Amal El-Mohtar
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A River from the Sky
by Ai Jiang
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Unmasking the Prodigal Daughter
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Wuthering Heights thoughts
How can any review possibly do justice to so timeless a book? What could I possibly say that has not
Echoes and Embers: Speculative Stories, by Pedro Iniguez
This definitely isn't a book I would normally pick up on my own, but I'm still
Unfixed, by Kimberly Warner
Started Kimberly Warner ’s memoir today, and thought I’d be reading it slowly, but I ended up being swept
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Daughter of the Forest, by Juliet Marillier
I've finally read this book. It was on my Goodreads "want to read" list for years