Book 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 >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads#ownvoices / Asian Americans / Asian characters / family relationships / First-Person / macabre comedy / mothers and daughters / POC / POC author / second chance romance / sisters / wedding9 Comments
What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests and then toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family? You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue! When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome ... more >
B- Reviews / Book ReviewsComedy / death / macabre comedy / Paranormal / San-Francisco5 Comments
Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected. Someone—or something—is stealing them and no one knows where they are going, or why, but it has something to do with that big orange bridge. Death Merchant Charlie Asher ... more >
Publishing NewsApple / Disney / Gamergate / macabre comedy / meditation / Microsoft / online harassment / SXSW / Tablets4 Comments
Exclusive: After Gamergate Misstep, SXSW Weighing an All-Day Forum on Online Harassment – So following the backlash against SXSW’s announcement to pull two panels on gaming, and perhaps even more importantly, the news that Buzzfeed and Vox Media would not participate in the event unless organizers reinstated the panels, it appears ... more >
B+ Reviews / Recommended Readsmacabre comedy / Paranormal / SourceBooks / Young-Adult3 Comments
“When your best friend is just a tiny bit psychotic, you should never actually believe him when he says “Trust me, this is gonna be awesome.” Of course, you probably wouldn’t believe a voodoo doll could work either. Or that it could cause someone’s leg to blow clean off with ... more >
Film Reviewsfemale friendship / Friday Film Review / macabre comedy / weddings32 Comments
Bridesmaids (2011) Genre: Comedy/Romance Grade: B+ “You kind of stole all the crazy.” “I out-crazied you.” Okay, the fact that I reviewed “Bad Santa” last year should tell y’all I have no shame about watching and recommending gross-out movies. Still I hesitated on this one awhile before deciding to give ... more >