Candy Bunny Reader

  Thanks to @books.below.stars on Instagram for tagging me in this! And as always, feel free to do this tag if you see it.  1. Cappuccino: A book everyone has read but you Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger! But I plan on reading it very soon. :) 2. Latte: A sweet read The 4-Volume manga series Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon by Shio Usui .    3. Mocha: An emotional read Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa  4. Espresso: A book I struggled to get through Love and Gelato  by Jenna Evans Welch. Well, the first half of the book was ok, but the second half is where it got really bad. I especially do not want to talk about the ending! 5. Flat White: A book on my TBR My TBR is like 600 books long haha. Here's one: The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong   

  Well, what do you think? More book I barely see anyone online talk about that need more love!  Three of these I read this year and one I read last year. There will be links to full reviews and to the authors' websites too, if applicable. 1. Flip the Script by Lyla Lee . Hana is a Korean-American teenage actress who lives in South Korea. She gets to be the lead role in a new K-Drama, and she gets to act alongside Bryan, who is a popular teenage K Pop star. He plays the love interest in the story. However, the initial ratings for the show don't look so good, and the company president wants them to fake date, thinking it will boost ratings. They're reluctant at first, but Hana and Bryan agree to it. Eventually, things get more complicated when the director decides to add a love triangle to the K Drama, and the other love interest gets played by none other than veteran K-Drama actress Minjee. Minjee is also Hana's best friend, and Hana has secretly had a crush on her for ...

OMG.  This is a new all-time favorite! Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa is about Sentaro, an ex-convict who is paying off debt he owes by working at a small dorayaki shop. One day an elderly woman named Tokue comes in and notices the "now hiring" sign, and she asks Sentaro if she could work there. Sentaro notices that her fingers are all crooked, too, and he wonders if it's a good idea to hire her. After Tokue has him her try her own sweet bean paste recipe for the dorayaki, Sentaro loves it and hires her. More and more people start to drop by the shop and business is booming. One customer who visits frequently is a teenager named Wakana, who doesn't have a good relationship with her parents but eventually becomes friends with Sentaro and Tokue. Sentaro is happy that the shop is doing well thanks to Tokue, but the owner (his boss) finds out about Tokue and her crooked fingers, and she tells Sentaro she found out that Tokue came from a sanatorium that housed people...