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Crazy Rich Asians

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I’m back with yet another book reviews. I swear that my life for the summer has turned into a whirlwind of working and non-working moments. Honestly, though I will talk about that more in my mid-year catch up on how I’m doing with this year’s resolutions and goals. Today’s post is a book review on Crazy Rich Asians.

I heard about this movie months before the movie actually premiered because Hollywood had invited nearly every Asian social media influencer to see the movie firsthand at a very special premiere. Matt said that since he hadn’t heard a word about the movie beforehand he thought it was going to be a sleeper hit. Little did we know how big this movie was actually going to be!

I had wanted to read the book before I saw the movie, but that didn’t work out because on the way to Okinawa earlier this year the movie was one of the selections on the plane, so of course I had to watch it. I LOVED it and couldn’t wait to dive into the books. It also didn’t hurt that my best friend recommend these to me because she has re-read them several times since being introduced to them. That being said this also completes a prompt in the Rachel Dawson reading challenge! Yay, just a few more books to go before I can say that I officially finished a reading challenge this year.

Back to the book review though, Rachel Chu has been dating Nicholas Young for nearly 2 years and when he invites her to his best friend’s wedding in Singapore that summer, she isn’t sure what to expect aside from a fun filled summer with her boyfriend. Once she agrees to go on the trip, Nick slowly or not so slowly begins to introduce Rachel to his real life in Singapore, meaning that his family is very wealthy and he will one day be the heir to this fortune. Rachel soon becomes overwhelmed by all this pressure and judgement that come along with Nick’s family and it almost ends their relationship. In addition, to hearing the story of Rachel & Nick you also get to read about the story of Astrid Leong and he woes with money and how it is slowly destroying her marriage.

I loved this book and it was everything I had hoped it would be. I would love to continue the series, but this is yet another group of books that my library is holding hostage since there are so many people that want to read the series and not enough copies to go around. I will definitely be getting around to reading the rest of the books soon, so there’s something for you to look forward to. I may have even loved the book more that the movie, which seems like quite a normal thing in these parts of the book community.

Let me know what you have been reading lately and if you have read this book or this series? Have you seen the movie? Do you want to? I look forward to hearing all this and more in many more posts to come.

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

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So I thought that after speed reading through a bunch of books to keep me busy over the long Memorial Day weekend holiday that I would finally sit down and write the reviews for you. We are going to start with the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares. One night when I needed a good feel good movie to watch on Netflix I stumbled onto the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movie and thought that I would re-read the books.

I had loved them in my original reading when the series was first coming out back in the early 2000s or so. I found the first book, so magical that a pair of pants could fit all the friends even though they came in different shapes and sizes. Also I loved the fact that the friends spent the summer circulating the pants among themselves as they were all over the country. I loved that it genuinely felt like this could have happened to real teenagers coming of age in the 2000s. Yes, I know that Bridget’s story in the first book and in the movie ruffled a few feathers for those not wanting to read about that sort of thing, but things like that do happen to girls coming of age now. I couldn’t wait for the next book to come out and when I heard that there was a movie I bounded toward the theater at the chance to see it.

I loved the movie although I found that in someways the first movie left you wanting so much more, much like the first book. This time around I also got the chance to read the companion book to the movie called Keep in Touch. This book included all the letters, cards, and im’s that the girls talked about throughout the movie. I felt intrigued by everything I was re-learning about the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants to keep going with my re-read of the series even though my library was not making this challenge an easy one to complete. If you want to hear more about what I thought about in my re-read of this series. Stay tuned for more reviews as I re-read.

Also what have you been reading lately? What would you recommend from you summer reading list? I’m also hoping to participate in Rachel Dawson‘s summer reading challenge, but we’ll see what happens. Look forward to more posts very soon!

The Notebook

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I’m back once again with yet another book review. At some point there will be more real life posts, but since I am sort of behind on my reading goal this year I thought that I would try and use the month of March to catch up. It also doesn’t hurt that the Creating & Co book club is also having a readathon month where we attempt to clear books of our book shelves.

I’m pretty sure that I hadn’t read The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks before though I will admit that I have read quite a bit of his books in the past. I do know that I have read the follow-up to this called The Wedding several years back. I’m glad that the Paper & Glam bookclub made both books their February read and that I got to read both in succession. After reading the book and then watching the movie, which is currently on Netflix. I think that I honestly like the book better.

In case you haven’t heard of this book or the movie, here’s a quick synopsis Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson have a summer romance in the North Carolina town where Noah was raised. Then circumstances beyond their control tear them apart for several years until in 1945 Allie comes unexpectedly back into Noah’s life. Flash forward years later and Noah as an old man is reading their love story to Allie hoping for a miracle that she’ll remember since she has been living with early onset Alzheimer’s disease.

I loved the story to pieces, I think what really did it was the way that Noah never gave up on Allie even though her disease affected her memory in such a tremendous way. It takes great patience and perseverance to keep doing something so simple like reading and being with someone like that everyday. This is the love story that people hope for and this is a classic Nicholas Sparks book that has made him the romance author of this time.

Let me know if you have read The Notebook or watched the movie starring Rachel McAddams and Ryan Gosling. I hope to see you soon.

From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler

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I know that it has once again been a while since I’ve written here, it’s okay though I’m just living my life. I’ve been trying to make vlogs for Youtube also, so please check out my channel here.

I’m back again with another book review with one of my favorite books of all time From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E L Konigsburg. The first time I read this book was sometime in high school , since the book didn’t initially hold my attention after it was given to me by my sixth grade teacher. (Mr. Schipper, I love the book now!) I feel in love with Claudia and her genius idea to runaway and live in the museum, but honestly I’m getting ahead of myself.

The basic synopsis for the book is the Claudia Kincaid has decided to runaway to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and take her youngest brother Jamie with her since he’s the one with the money and the most likable. Claudia has mainly decided to runaway to teach her family a lesson since she feels that she is deeply under appreciated. While hiding away at the museum a Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler donates a mysterious statue entitled the Angel. Claudia becomes fascinated with the statue and is determined to find out it’s origins.The story is narrated by Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler in a letter to her lawyer Saxonberg as to why she is changing her will.

I love that Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler narrates the story to Saxonberg and that we find the mysterious note between the narrator, her lawyer, and Claudia & Jamie. I loved that surprise twist. I would definitely recommend this book if you have never read it. Also I apparently just found out that there are two movies based on the book, which I will soon have to hunt down and watch.

Let me know what you have been reading lately and other things you have been up. I hope to be back soon with another post.

The life-changing magic of tidying up

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It’s been a minute since I have written here. Life has been good and I have been reading, just a bit more slowly than usually and inspiration to write other things hasn’t struck yet.

Today though I’m back here to talk about Marie Kondo’s book The Life-changing magic of tidying up. Let’s be real and say that I bought this book initially when it was a Paper & Glam book club read, back in 2016 or so didn’t make it through the book. Hello, Netflix special in January 2019 with Marie Kondo to inspire me to actually read the book and declutter. While I read the book slowly and went through at least 3 of the steps to date. ( I may have jumped around because you uncover things when you declutter items) I found that it helped with my decluttering process.

I found Marie Kondo’s step by step approach to decluttering with discarding over storage really helped in my process to actually get rid of things. I also found the process more helpful to follow along than the show, though the show was an inspiring place to start.

Would I recommend this book to people? Yes, I think that everyone would enjoy and can benefit from this book. Should you go out and buy the book? Well, I took notes on some of the things she says, but I will definitely be passing it on. I would recommend you borrow it, unless you know you are definitely going to keep it. Are there a few too many memes and jokes on the magic of tidying up? Possibly, but if it gets people to declutter and actually read the book then it’s all well and good.

Let me know if you have read the book, watched the series and have been inspired to declutter after either? I think as interesting as the initial process is, I think the follow up is even more interesting. I did search through the internet and found a few follow-up stories on people a few years after doing the KonMari method and how their lives have and haven’t changed because of it.

Hope to see you soon in another post!