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The Wangs Vs. The World: A Novel by Jade Chang
Pub. date: October 4th, 2016
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: E-galley
ISBN: 9780544734098
Source: Netgalley
Thanks so much to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Netgalley for providing me this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Charlie Wang moved to America to become filthy rich. He succeeded with a cosmetics empire until the day he went bankrupt. They’ve come for his money, his assets. His next course of action is to pack whatever belongings he has left, load up the car, take his wife and their faithful nanny, pull his son out of college and his youngest daughter out of boarding school, and road trip it to New York from California to his oldest daughter’s house. Welcome to The Wangs Vs. The World.
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It’s Monday, What Are You Reading? is a weekly meme currently hosted by The Book Date. It’s a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week, and add to that ever-growing TBR stack.
Holy hellcats we’re now in the middle of September! U.N.B.E.L.I.E.V.A.B.L.E. Someone please tell me which black hole is sucking in all our time because I do not get it.
Books, books. Let’s see, it’s DiverseAThon week!
Following the shit show with Certain White Author on Twitter, followed by Certain Racist Trash video on Youtube, a group of booktubers got together to create a weeklong readathon focused on diversity in publishing and celebrating own voices. Needless to say, I am stoked. Especially after the last book I read by a white dude with the whole teacher-seduced-by-student narrative that turned out to be based on his own life and experiences with a former student. Gah, men. Anyway, I’m here for this celebration and happy to dive into the glory of some great books by own voices.
On the roster:
Ooh, also, there’s no sign-ups on anything, so feel free to join in using the hashtag #diverseathon. There’s also a bunch of twitter chats that will be happening over the course of the week, scheduled as follows:
Also, I might be getting on a plane in a few hours, if the airline issues me a boarding pass- there’s some weird regulations with visas and such (as is my life), to visit some relatives with my parents for a few (Not-so-secretly hoping they don’t let me board because that means four days alone at home with all of the books).
Meanwhile, I’m finally on Litsy! IT’S SO MUCH FUN YOU GUYS I LOVE IT SO MUCH. If you’re on there, I’m @theshrinkette on there. YAY BOOKS!
More later,
-J
Heyo,
Updates, updates: All my stuff was packed and shipped, and I moved back to Muscat about a week ago. My last few weeks in Chicago were spent catching up with as many friends as I could, and generally taking in as much Chicago as I could before I left. Yes, this did include visiting all my favorite bookstores one last time. It was an emotional rollercoaster of a month and now I’m catching up on sleep, enjoying my mom’s cooking, and just chilling. My body is appreciating this kindness.
As most of you know, I participated in the Epic Reads’ Reading Decathlon Challenge. They had three different levels of challenges- gold, silver, and bronze- and you could choose to attempt whichever you wanted.
I chose to go for the gold- mostly because I had a 15 hour flight from Chicago to Muscat and I needed some motivation to kill my time up there reading. Plus, what better way to make a dent in that TBR? I managed to finish 10 books in 9 days, and it was so much fun having all this time to read!
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