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   

  Of course I got more books to gush about! Here are the first 3 parts in case you missed them: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 Let's see if our reading tastes are still similar! 1. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle 2. The Wayside School series by Louis Sachar 3. Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa 4. The Mothkeeper by Kay O'Neill 5. The Witch's Boy by Kelly Barnhill 6. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo 7. The Morrigan Crow series by Jessica Townsend 8. The Last Cherry Blossom by Kathleen Burkinshaw 9. The Serafina series by Robert Beatty 10. My Life in France by Julia Child 11. She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick 12. Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee

  Yay for another book tag! I saw this tag once again over at the YouTube channel of Angela from Literature Science Alliance (her video here ). It looked like a lot of fun. Feel free to do this tag if you see it! 1. In fall, the air is crisp and clear: name a book with a vivid setting. Anything by Kelly Barnhill! As of writing this, I have read from her The Girl who Drank the Moon and The Ogress and the Orphans. I am currently reading The Witch's Boy and is also has a very vivid setting. 2. Nature is beautiful, but also dying: name a book that is beautifully written, but also deals with a heavy topic like loss or grief. Three that come to mind are: We Are Okay by Nina LaCour, Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa, and Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech. 3. Fall is back to school season: share a non-fiction book that taught you something new. Word by Word by Kory Stamper. It's a nonfiction book about how dictionaries are made, specifically the Merriam-Webster English Dictionary...

  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 ...

Everything I read in September! I read a total of 15 books! As always, I gotta know: how did your reading month go? Got any new all time favorites? As usual, there are links to any full book reviews if applicable. 1. Jane of Lantern Hill by LM Montgomery -4.5 stars 2. Spy X Family 3, 4, and 5 by Tetsuya Endo - all 4.5 stars 3. Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa -5 stars 4. My Contrary Mary by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows - 4 stars 5. This Time it's Real by Ann Liang -3.5 stars 6. Shuna's Journey by Hayao Miyazaki - 5 stars 7. The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo -5 stars 8. One Piece 5, 6, and 7 by Eichiro Oda -all 5 stars 9. Avatar: The Promise 1, 2, and 3 by Gene Yang - all 5 stars

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...