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I finally read Funny Story by Emily Henry!

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I think I love this more than Book Lovers ! I read that book last year. You can read my review for it here . Funny Story by Emily Henry is about Daphne and Miles, who are living together as roommates as Daphne's ex fiance Peter and Miles's ex fiancee Petra break off each other's respective engagements and decide to be with each other instead. Their daily life is largely uneventful: Daphne works as a children's librarian, Miles works as a bartender, they don't interact with each other much...until one day they get a letter in the mail from Peter and Petra to come to their wedding! Shocked that their exes would even think to still communicate with them, the two decide to fake date to annoy Peter and Petra by the time the wedding happens. But very quickly their fake dating turns real, and their motivations and actions become less about getting revenge on their exes and more confronting their true feelings and dealing with their childhood traumas.  It's a very emot...

A Banh Mi for Two Review

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  A Banh Mi for Two by Trinity Nguyen follows two girls: Lan and Vivi. Lan spends her days working at her family's banh mi stall, and also has a popular blog. It's all about food and food stalls in Sai Gon, the city where she lives. But she hasn't felt inspired to write anything in a long time. At the same time, Vivi has come to Viet Nam via study abroad with her university. Her main goal is actually to track down her mother's side of the family, whom she's never met and find out why her mother lost contact with them a long time ago. Her only clues are some old photographs of her mother, aunt, and grandmother. Vivi is also a huge fan of Lan's blog.  The two girls meet on accident in a public park. Things start out rocky at first, but when Vivi gushes to Lan about how much she loves her blog, the two become best friends. Vivi convinces Lan to enter a writing contest, and Lan agrees to help Vivi track down her mother's side of the family. The two also gush a ...

Dear Wendy Review

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  It's like this book was written just for me! Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao is about two first year students at Wellesey College in Wellesey, Massachusetts. One is named Sophie, the other is named Jo. Sophie runs an Instagram account called Dear Wendy where people at Wellesey send her questions (usually about relationships) and she answers them in posts. Jo runs a similar Instagram account called Sincerely Wanda, which is like Dear Wendy but instead of giving serious advice, they give much sillier answers. The two develop a huge rivalry online that the students at Wellesey can't get enough of. Both of them stay anonymous online, and no one else except for their respective roommates know each Instagram account's true identities.  Sophie and Jo end up becoming friends after they meet in their Women and Gender Studies class. They bond over the fact that both of them are aromantic and asexual. They start hanging out with each other more and more and grow close, but each worry about ...

March Wrap Up

  In March, I read a total of 15 books and I DNF 9 books.     Here are the books I read and their rankings: The Shadow of Kyoshi by FC Yee and Michael DiMartino -4 stars Amari and the Great Game by BB Alston -5 stars Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones -3 stars Kilala Princess Volume 1 by Rika Tanaka -5 stars Dungeon Meshi Volume 1 by Ryoko Kui -4 stars The Strangers by Margaret Peterson Haddix -4.5 stars Sign of Affection Volume 9 by Suu Morishita -5 stars Neighborhood Story Vol 3 by Ai Yazawa -5 stars Our Not So Lonely Planet Travel Guide by Mone Sorai -5 stars Firefly Summer by Morgan Matson- 5 stars Yotsuba&! Volumes 13, 14, and 15 by Kiyohiko Azuma -4.5 stars for 13, and 5 stars for the other two   Bye Forever I Guess by Jodi Meadows -5 stars Batter Royale by Liesl Adams -5 stars    Books I DNF because I couldn't get into them: Ophelia After All by Raquel Marie Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder Liesl and Po by La...