Hi Friends! If you just received 17 emails from me about new blog posts… those reviews weren’t supposed to go live, possibly ever. Sorry for the scheduling error!
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ZACHARY YING AND THE DRAGON EMPEROR by Xiran Jay Zhao | ARC Review
ZACHARY YING AND THE DRAGON EMPEROR (Zachary Ying #1) by Xiran Jay Zhao
- Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books, May 10th 2022
- Genre: Middle Grade, Fantasy
- Format: eARC
- Page Count: 352 pages
Click on the cover for my review on Goodreads.
If you love history, mythology, and chaos, this book is for you.
Zachary “Zack” Ziyang Ying (12, gay) loves the video game Mythrealm, and it helps him make “friends.” When a Chinese boy, Simon Li, shows up at his school, Zack finds his life turning upside down as the spirit of Qin Shi Huang tries to possess him when he stands up for Simon to his “friends.” It doesn’t help that his mother’s spirit gets abducted by bad ghosts. To save his mother from disappearing forever and China from being overrun with malevolent underworld creatures, Zack has to travel to China, the country that had killed his father for speaking out, with Qin Shi Huang attached to his AR headset.
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2020 Is Full of Hate and Love at the Same Time
For the past two weeks, I have been trying to follow what is happening around the world. News regarding protests on police brutality targeting Black people and invalidation of trans people are not high profile here in Taiwan, but they should be.
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Limiting Outings by Reading During COVID-19 Outbreaks
[Update in 2020: It has come to my knowledge that Sanderson is homophobic, and I will no longer be promoting his works.]Many cities and countries are facing lockdowns amid COVID-19 outbreaks. While Taiwan is not currently under any lockdown, most people still avoid unnecessary ventures into public spaces. It is everyone’s job to keep our country and citizens safe. We take pandemic preventions very seriously. So even if you have never read out of habit, books might still be awesome company during social distancing.
Over the past two years, I have read nearly 150 books. I figured now would be a good time to put together a list of fictions and nonfictions I loved.