Showing posts with label Interior Chinatown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Interior Chinatown. Show all posts

Jun 27, 2021

My Grape Year by Laura Bradbury: Armchair Travel and Romance: Sunday Salon

 rom-com memoir set in a French vineyard in Burgundy.

Title: My Grape Year by Laura Bradbury

September 23, 2015, Grape Books

Genre: YA, rom-com, travel memoir

And this is only the beginning. There are others after this book, making it a series of at least 8 books! Laura first travels to France as an exchange high school student, nearing 18 years-of-age, hoping for adventure and romance. She lands up staying with four different families during a year in wine making Burgundy. 

I have only just started Book 1 but it satisfies my armchair travel inclinations, and the writing is so delightful, I'm sure I'll be reading the rest of the series, in due time.


Currently also reading: 



Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu, January 28, 2020, Pantheon Books 
Genre: contemporary Asian fiction, multicultural
Setting: USA

It's a funny book full of Asian stereotypes the author is trying to debunk. 
Willy Wu describes himself as Generic Asian Man dreaming of being Kung Fu Guy.

That's how he is seen, except by his mother who tells him, Be more.

Lots of chuckles. Am looking forward to reading on. 

Someone should write Generic Asian Woman. That should bring just as many chuckles. 

What are you reading this week? 

Memes: The Sunday Post hosted by The Caffeinated Bookreviewer. Also,  It's Monday: What Are You Readingand Sunday Salon

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