A fast but fascinating read, with adventure on every page and twists around every corner. The unstated backstory between two of the main characters is charming, too.

This cookbook has a wide variety of recipes, some with ingredients that are easier to find than others (even considering seasonality). Kumquats, endive, fiddlehead ferns, red currants, celeriac... well, maybe this stuff grows near you (or is readily available in stores near you), but I don't see them too often.

On the other hand, there's a useful amount of advice on water-bath canning for absolute beginners, and I'm looking forward to trying some of the recipes: kimchi, mango-chili butter, wasabi green beans, pickled cauliflower, ginger-garlic (cucumber) pickles, soy-garlic (cucumber) pickles, and pickled eggplant.

Cute and informative! This is the first graphic cookbook I've read, but I dig the format.

Enlightening origin stories, cute comics, even a nod to some more famous viral comics that weren't directly featured.

This is an amazing story based on “The Clan of the Fiery Cross”, which Yang recaps in his essay “Superman and Me” (p. 228). I cried twice while reading it.

Something I found interesting: Yang mostly[1] represents non-English languages as transliterated text in different colors. Chinese is in red, Kryptonian in green, and just now, Yiddish in cyan. I guess I didn’t even think of “oy gevalt” as not being part of English, but in Smallville, in 1936, I suppose it was as foreign as anything else.

[1] Except for the text in a Kryptogram, if you’ll pardon the expression. Kryptonian is also represented as a cipher that the reader can decipher for an additional layer of fun. Here’s a hint: the word that looks like one big barcode is actually three letters—you are welcome.

Finally got around to reading this because so many people were making references to it!

The Bride Test is everything I hoped it would be and even a little more. I'm autistic and I loved The Kiss Quotient, so I was nervous about being disappointed by a "sophomore slump".

I needn't have worried, as The Bride Test was another brilliant love story with real, authentic depth in the autistic character. I can't speak to the immigrant experience, and I've never known poverty, but I've seen grief over the loss of a brother (my best friend from high school lost his brother, as did my wife) and that felt real too.

And I've struggled with really believing that I love the people I've had serious relationships with, too. Like Khải, I've had to reason my way through it: I feel this way and that way, and as far as I can tell that's what allistic people mean when they talk about romantic love. I'm sure it isn't the exact same experience for any two people, so I shouldn't downplay it because of variations. So I really felt seen when he constantly told himself that it wasn't love, that it couldn't be, because he doesn't work that way. I felt seen when he repeatedly acted in ways that he saw as fair or generous to Esme because he wanted what was best for her, wanted to respect her agency, wanted never to say anything that wasn't true — even though she saw it, through her own allistic eyes, as a painful rejection. Their love story inspires me and I might just have to go read it again from the beginning. Maybe right now.

I'm so grateful to the author and publisher for giving me a review copy on NetGalley.

There's actually things in this book I can relate to, which I never thought I'd say about a romance novel. Thank you!