Kitchen Chinese

I was pretty much hooked on Kitchen Chinese by Ann Mah as soon as the protagonist explains she only knows…

Happy All The Time

Happy All The Time by Laurie Colvin tells the story of Guido and Vincent, third cousins and best friends, and of…

Adult Coloring Book: Stress Relieving Animal Designs

This Adult Coloring Book: Stress Relieving Animal Designs is an unusual book to review. A couple months ago, I got my…

Go

In the Japanese novel Go, Sugihara is a zainichi chosenjin, a Korean national, but resident in Japan, the child of Korean…

The Candle-Factory Girl

The Candle-Factory Girl was a perfectly pleasant working-class family drama, but including some of the worst historical world-building I've ever…