Mar 17, 20193 minChanging ChinaBefore there was bubble tea, there was regular old tea (archaic, I know) that originated deep in the Chinese mountains. Li-yan, a member...
Feb 23, 20192 minCalling All LonersLoners, lone wolves, and people who are simply lonely - we get a bad rap. To be alone, to like being alone, is considered abnormal in a...
Feb 7, 20192 minEternal Winter in The Left Hand of DarknessA fitting book for these cold days, but you won't find a warm refuge in the pages of Ursula K. Le Guin's sci-fi novel The Left Hand of...
Jan 28, 20192 minI am a Victim of Well-Placed AdvertisementsWhen I was in London, I saw this book cover plastered everywhere: the plasticky, raindrop studded sides of bus stops, the rounded tube...
Jan 20, 20192 minYou're at a Club in NYC......and the lights pulse in your head, reminding you of the sun that is, by now, surely rising outside. It's nearly 6 a.m. and maybe you...
Jan 12, 20192 minMyths Brought to Life in American GodsMy gut response to Neil Gaiman's American Gods is to call it a "Percy Jackson for adults." In both, gods and "mythical" creatures exist...
Jan 7, 20192 minDiving into On Such A Full SeaIn a near future, pockets of the world have deteriorated from environmental pollution, rendering most of the open land wild and lawless....
Dec 31, 20183 minTop 10 Books of 2018I somehow managed to read 84 books in 2018. Here are my favorites. (These are not books published in 2018, but books I read in 2018.)...
Dec 31, 20181 minWhat We Were Promised Fails to Keep Its PromiseLucy Tan's What We Were Promised centers on the Zhens, Wei and Lina, a Chinese couple who move to America and then return to Shanghai as...