alltheradreads's Reviews (1.9k)

So glad a friend told me about this one — these poems are ones i have savored over the last few months and always found to be exactly the words I needed each and every time I’ve picked them up. So poignant, beautiful, simple yet deeply meaningful... loved them.

Give me ALL the quirky and delightful rom com books this summer pleaseandthankyou! Looooove this one’s main characters and their traits— Asian, autistic, poor, single mother, and totally endearing. Another win of a novel from Hoang!

Read this one for Sarah Bessey’s Field Notes Book Club (sign up for her email newsletter!) and have to say, I sadly was underwhelmed by it. I wanted to love it, but I just didn’t really connect with the writing style (it felt super direct and not very personal, and I just didn’t really resonate or find it engaging). There are helpful thoughts here about self-care (focusing on heart, soul, mind, and strength as in Mark 12:30) that go beyond just massages and bubble baths into things like healthy boundaries, sleep, etc. Not a must-read, but definitely helpful for those needing to work out a better balance of loving God and others while still taking care of self.

It took me a little bit to get through this one (because I got distracted, not because the book wasn’t great) but it was SO good. It’s such a rich, graceful, honest, and beautifully told memoir and made me love her even more. So worth a read, regardless of your political affiliation!

Thanks to Random House for the free book! I FLEW through it during a Silent Reading Party — I read the first few pages at home when deciding what books to take with me, and almost couldn’t put it down to drive to the party itself! Loved this of espionage and sisterhood and history and family and romance and more, as told from a mother to her sons throughout changing periods of time. It was inspired by true events which I think gave it extra oomph, and I found it thoroughly engaging and enjoyable.

My love for Queer Eye is REAL so I was stoked to get Karamo’s book from the library this week! It was a great afternoon read and told his story from the beginning until now, giving context to the kindhearted and wise “culture expert” we see on the show. I think Karamo is better on screen than he comes across on the page, but I enjoyed getting to know more about him and hear his story— there’s so much i didn’t know and appreciated him so vulnerably sharing with the world. We need more role models like him, especially with his unique perspective as a gay man of color coming from immigrant parents who is a father and a public figure.

This one was a total dud for me. It felt like it was trying WAY too hard to be culturally unique and relevant, but it came across as over explaining and forcing it. I literally would skip massive chunks of pages, read a few lines, realize where I was in the classic P&P storyline, skip ahead again... it just didn’t work for me at all! Oh well

Yes. Yes. Yes. There IS something about Sweetie— something charming and delightful and engaging and just so cute. This book was wonderful! A YA love story at its finest, with the added bonus of being written by a woman of color about Indian characters! BIG FAN. (ps— you don’t have to read When Dimple Met Rishi first, but there are some references to it since the male character in this one is Rishi’s younger brother! But you could totally just read either one on their own, just FYI!