Category: book reviews

  • Review: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

    Overview A long time ago, when I was younger, my Japanese mother told me to read this book. At that time, it hadn’t occurred to me that this was the one thing my mother loved with her whole heart that was Chinese — but she loved this book, and even watched the movie with me, so…

  • Review: If Cats Disappeared From the World by Kawamura Genki

    Genki Kawamura’s If Cats Disappeared From the World is a love letter to a mother, a father, and a cat—or cats, plural. Kawamura’s novel was well-written and personal, as if the narrator kept glancing in a mirror every five minutes, forcing himself to be truthful. I love series, I love gigantic books, so I was…