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March 31, 2022

REVIEW: Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q Sutanto

JayneBook Reviews / C+ Reviews#ownvoices / Anglo-Asian / Asian characters / Asian-American / Contemporary / England / family relationships / First-Person / macabre comedy / mafia / POC / POC author / sisters / weddingComments Off on REVIEW: Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q Sutanto

The aunties are back, fiercer than ever and ready to handle any catastrophe—even the mafia—in this delightful and hilarious sequel by Jesse Q. Sutanto, author of Dial A for Aunties. Meddy Chan has been to countless weddings, but she never imagined how her own would turn out. Now the day ... more >

February 2, 2021

REVIEW: The Obsession by Jesse Q Sutanto

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsAsian-American / crime / Dark / domestic violence / First-Person / high-school / murder / POC / POC author / revenge / stalker / young adult fiction2 Comments

A classic sort of love story…except somebody might wind up dead. Nobody knows Delilah like Logan does. Nobody. He makes sure of it by learning everything he can through her social media and watching her through a hidden camera he has trained on her house. Some might call him a ... more >

January 26, 2021

REVIEW: The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsAsian-American / Contemporary / diversity / enemies to lovers / First-Person / Jewish heroine / journalism / POC / radio / Seattle4 Comments

Shay Goldstein has been a producer at her Seattle public radio station for nearly a decade, and she can’t imagine working anywhere else. But lately it’s been a constant clash between her and her newest colleague, Dominic Yun, who’s fresh off a journalism master’s program and convinced he knows everything ... more >

March 15, 2017

Wednesday News: RIP Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Beek, extracurricular history, and self(ie) portraits

JanetPublishing NewsAmy Krouse Rosenthal / Asian-American / Beek / book apps / Latin America / obituary / photography / portraiture / Women's History Month1 Comments

‘You may want to marry my husband’ Chicago essayist dead at 51 – I am happy to see such robust coverage of Rosenthal’s death, if only because it will introduce even more readers to her work and continue to build her legacy. Rosenthal’s recent NYT Modern Love column likely introduced more readers ... more >

December 23, 2013

REVIEW: The Dom Project by Heloise Belleau, Solace Ames

WillafulB Reviews / Book ReviewsAsian-American / BDSM / Contemporary / Erotic-Romance / interracial-romance / multicultural / POC6 Comments

Dear Ms. Belleau and Ms. Ames: The Dom Project is erotic romance with heavy emphasis on the erotic side. Which isn’t to say it doesn’t have a happy, satisfying ending — but it’s set in a milieu in which the traditional romance “rules” simply do not apply. And it creates ... more >

June 22, 2012

Friday Film Review: The Wedding Banquet

JayneFilm ReviewsAsian-American / Contemporary / Friday Film Review / m/m / marriage-of-convenience / POC19 Comments

The Wedding Banquet (1993) Genre: Romantic/GLBT/Comedy Grade: B This is one of Ang Lee’s earlier movies and he uses it to show a cross cultural match up of Taiwanese and American, GLBT and straight. It’s got humor, love of many kinds, a bit of pathos and a lot of understanding ... more >

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