{"id":5112,"date":"2021-04-12T07:25:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T11:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=5112"},"modified":"2021-04-11T15:03:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T19:03:03","slug":"mailbox-monday-september-21st-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=5112","title":{"rendered":"Mailbox Monday – April 12th"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A big thank you to Marcia for originating Mailbox Monday<\/a>. In this weekly meme you share books which came into your home during the week. All of my books this week came from my local award winning library system, the Columbus Metropolitan Library. It was a light week while I get some other books off my TBR shelf.<\/p>\n

Here are the books I picked up this week:<\/p>\n

Queenie<\/strong> by Candice Carty-Williams –<\/p>\n

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For fans of<\/b>\u00c2\u00a0<\/b>Luster<\/i><\/b>\u00c2\u00a0<\/i><\/b>and<\/b>\u00c2\u00a0<\/b>I May Destroy You,<\/i><\/b>\u00c2\u00a0<\/i><\/b>a disarmingly honest,<\/b>\u00c2\u00a0unapologetically black, and undeniably witty debut\u00c2\u00a0<\/b>novel that will speak to those who have gone looking for love and found something very different in its place.<\/b><\/strong>Queenie Jenkins is a twenty-five-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth.As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dall of the questions today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s woman must face in a world trying to answer them for her.With \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fresh and honest\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Jojo Moyes) prose,\u00c2\u00a0Queenie\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>is a remarkably relatable exploration of what it means to be a modern woman searching for meaning in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s world.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

A Taste for Love<\/strong> by Jennifer Yen –<\/p>\n

For fans of Jenny Han, Jane Austen, and\u00c2\u00a0The Great British Baking Show<\/em>,\u00c2\u00a0A Taste for Love<\/em>, is a delicious rom com about first love, familial expectations, and making the perfect bao.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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To her friends, high school senior Liza Yang is nearly perfect. Smart, kind, and pretty, she dreams big and never shies away from a challenge. But to her mom, Liza is anything but. Compared to her older sister Jeannie, Liza is stubborn, rebellious, and worst of all, determined to push back against all of Mrs. Yang\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s traditional values, especially when it comes to dating.The one thing mother and daughter do agree on is their love of baking. Mrs. Yang is the owner of Houston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s popular Yin & Yang Bakery. With college just around the corner, Liza agrees to help out at the bakery\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual junior competition to prove to her mom that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more than her rebellious tendencies once and for all. But when Liza arrives on the first day of the bake-off, she realizes there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a catch: all of the contestants are young Asian American men her mother has handpicked for Liza to date.The bachelorette situation Liza has found herself in is made even worse when she happens to be grudgingly attracted to one of the contestants; the stoic, impenetrable, annoyingly hot James Wong. As she battles against her feelings for James, and for her mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approval, Liza begins to realize there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no tried and true recipe for love.<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

What arrived in your mailbox this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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