#mary h.k. choi

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Title: Yolk | Author: Mary H.K. Choi | Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2021)

#books #Yolk #Mary H.K. Choi

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

Quick Review: Emergency Contact by Mary HK Choi Rating: 5/5

There was nothing for me to dislike about this book. Sam is the softest boy and Penny the most chaotic human but I loved watching their friendship develop and I enjoyed the way Choi tackled the big topics of the book. I'll definitely be picking up her other books soon!

Warnings: alcoholism (mostly off-page), anxiety and panic attacks, past experience of rape and abusive parents.

#emergency contact #mary h.k. choi #booklr #bookblr #book review #reviews #5 star reads #trcc original #authors of colour

[spokspsps]

i am reading yolk by mary h.k choi and holy shit this book is so painfully human it's just like,,, holy shit

#yolk #mary h.k. choi #the book is about an asian american younger sibling. i am an asian american younger sibling.

[mistwraiths]

2.5 stars

I do always tend to enjoy Mary H. K. Choi's books but Yolk was a really hard book to like.

The characters in this book are deeply flawed and unlikable, and the story covers heavy topics such as bulimia, cancer, mental illness, binging, body dysmorphya, and others. It's beautifully sad.

I love sister books and this one definitely felt more like a realistic relationship because I have a sister and we're both quite shitty towards each other and say mean things. But we also help each other and have good moments. Jayne and June are quite fucking awful to each other, often to the point even I am like damn.

Jayne was an absolute MESS and self-sabotages so much, but I could sympathize with her anxiety and even her hatred of her own body. I do kind of wish that we got to be in June's headspace as well, I think that would have helped us understand her better and given us a break from Jayne and her life.

I like that June had the help she couldn't get herself to ask for. I like that Jayne also was getting help for her binging and bulimia. I still feel disappointed with it overall. I finished it and just felt wanting more of everything that these sisters needed. The cancer bit always felt not as prevalent despite it being the main point these sisters were talking again. I expected this book to make me super emotional but it really wasn't.

#yolk #mary h.k. choi #steph's book review #steph reads #book review

[depressedonwednesday]

we don’t talk about this line enough

#yolk #mary h.k. choi

[thebookishcrypt]

Batch Ratings for 2019: Contemporary/Romance Edition

This is a list of contemporary books that I read in 2019. I didn’t really write full reviews for them but I still wanted to share my ratings! My full reading list can be found on my [Goodreads] so you can look further into them! Review from Goodreads: “I. FREAKING. LOVED. THIS. SO. HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I WANT MORE!!!!!Oh my god how am I going to sleep now. I am way too awake from all the…

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#99 percent mine #american panda #atticus #autoboyography #catch a falling star #christina lauren #claire lazebnik #emergency contact #gloria chao #i&039;ve got your number #jennifer brown #jillian dodd #josh & hazel&039;s guide to not dating #kim culbertson #king #leah thomas #mary h.k. choi #my favorite half-night stand #permanent record #pumpkin heads #r.s. grey #rainbow rowell #sally thorne #sophie kinsella #t.m. frazier #that baby #that boy #that wedding #the ahte list #the biker

[biglisbonnews]

Lucy Liu Is the Least-Bothered Person You Know “I’m sure there are tons of people who don’t like my work or my career or me. I’m not here to change somebody’s mind.” https://www.thecut.com/2023/03/march-2023-cut-cover-lucy-liu.html

#celebrity #culture #interviews #profile #actors #film #movies #cut covers #cut homepage lede #best of the cut #lucy liu #Mary H.K. Choi #The Cut

[haveyoureadthispoll]

Jayne Baek is barely getting by. She shuffles through fashion school, saddled with a deadbeat boyfriend, clout-chasing friends, and a wretched eating disorder that she’s not fully ready to confront. But that’s New York City, right? At least she isn’t in Texas anymore, and is finally living in a city that feels right for her. On the other hand, her sister June is dazzlingly rich with a high-flying finance job and a massive apartment. Unlike Jayne, June has never struggled a day in her life. Until she’s diagnosed with uterine cancer. Suddenly, these estranged sisters who have nothing in common are living together. Because sisterly obligations are kind of important when one of you is dying.

#book: yolk #author: mary h.k. choi #genre: contemporary #genre: mental health #genre: young adult #year: 2020s

[paperweight-inshadesofgreige]

#emergency contact by mary h.k. choi #and #tämä liukasteleva sydän by siri kolu #yes the second book's in finnish #they mentioned lin and hamilton in the first one #and lin and in the heights in the second one

[laxeriasky]

So I just started the book Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi and it’s already pretty good. The beginning was a bit rocky but it’s started to smooth out from there. I also love how it talks about cancer and food disorders ♥︎

#Yolk #mary h.k choi #bookblr #bookish #reading #i love reading

[masontarro]

lmaooo

#yolk #yolk mary h.k. choi

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Title: Permanent Record | Author: Mary H.K. Choi | Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2019)

#books #Permanent Record #Mary H.K. Choi

[jeweled-blue-eyes]

Louise Glück, Descending Figure / Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk / George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones / William Wordsworth / Barbara Alpert / Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

#wmmap #who made me a princess #sbapod #suddenly became a princess one day #athanasia de alger obelia #jennette margarita #athyette #web weaving #I have never read those books

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Fearless TV: An Inspired Reading Recommendations List

Let It Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle (Fearless)

Ellie Pillai Is Brown by Christine Pillainayagam (Fifteen)

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (Love Story)

Better Than The Movies by Lynn Painter (Hey Stephen)

An Abundance Of Katherines by John Green (White Horse)

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (You Belong With Me)

It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han (Breathe)

Today, Tonight, Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon (Tell Me Why)

We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han (You're Not Sorry)

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han (The Way I Loved You)

All This Time by Mikki Daughtry and Rachael Lippincott (Forever & Always)

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (The Best Day)

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (Change)

Heartstopper Vol. 1 by Alice Oseman (Jump Then Fall)

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Untouchable)

All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven (Come In With The Rain)

Permanent Record by Mary H.K. Choi (Superstar)

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell (The Other Side Of The Door)

Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han (Today Was A Fairytale)

The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston (You All Over Me)

She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen (Mr. Perfectly Fine)

Dear Heartbreak by Heather Demetrios (We Were Happy)

Any Way The Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell (That's When)

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio (Don't You)

Ellie Pillai Is (Almost) In Love by Christine Pillainayagam (Bye Bye Baby)

#books #book blog #booklr #readblr #book reccs #book recommendations #bookaddict #bookblr #bookworm #books and reading #fearless #fearless era #fearless tv #taylornation #taylor swift #taylor swift book #taylor swift book reccs #taylor swizzle #fearless taylor’s version #fearless taylor swift #eras #eras tour #eras taylor swift

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🦇 We shouldn't wait until May every year to delve into the beauty of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voices. In May, I shared a list of the NEWEST AAPI books out this year. To keep promoting AAPI authors, characters, and stories, here are a few Young Adult AAPI books you can add to your TBR for the remainder of the year!

🏮 The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han 🏮 My Summer of Love and Misfortune by Lindsay Wong 🏮 Permanent Record by Mary H.K. Choi 🏮 When We Were Infinite by Kelly Loy Gilbert 🏮 To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han 🏮 I Will Find You Again by Sarah Lyu 🏮 Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi 🏮 American Panda by Gloria Chao 🏮 When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon 🏮 Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman 🏮 Our Wayward Fate by Gloria Chao 🏮 Rent a Boyfriend by Gloria Chao 🏮 Want by Cindy Pon 🏮 The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf 🏮 A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata 🏮 Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon 🏮 Everyone Wants to Know by Kelly Loy Gilbert 🏮 A Pho Love Story by Loan Le 🏮 The Wild Ones by Nafiza Azad 🏮 Prepped by Bethany Mangle 🏮 The Infinity Courts by Akemi Dawn 🏮 Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi 🏮 Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim by Patricia Park 🏮 This is Not a Personal Statement by Tracy Badua 🏮 The Cartographers by Amy Zhang 🏮 The Love Match by Priyanka Taslim 🏮 This Place is Still Beautiful by Xixi Tian 🏮 Chasing Pacquiao by Rod Pulido 🏮 I'm Not Here to Make Friends by Andrew Yang 🏮 The Queens of New York by E. L. Shen 🏮 Hungry Ghost by Victoria Ying 🏮 These Infinite Threads by Tahereh Mafi 🏮 Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim 🏮 The Marvelous Mirza Girls by Sheba Karim 🏮 A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin

#books #book recs #aapi authors #aapi representation #book blog #booklr #batty about books #battyaboutbooks

[girljeremystrong]

do u have a book rec that will ruin me emotionally? i want to be upset. but in a nice way. sort of like how la vita è bella makes me upset or a thousand splendid suns makes me upset. i need a bittersweet ending i will think about forever. or something. sorry for the random question shshsjsjs <3 all g if you can’t think of anything i just thought i’d ask you first

of course i do!! ❤️

so here are some book that are upsetting and heartbreaking and made me upset and made me cry:

the great believers by rebecca makkai

i cried and cried and didn't recover for days. a dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s chicago and contemporary paris.

the fortune men by nadifa mohamed

how frustrating and sad this was, made me cry and made me mad! the story of a murder, a miscarriage of justice, and a man too innocent for his times.

tin man by sarah winman

why is love so miserable? ellis and michael are twelve when they first become friends, and then one day this closest of friendships grows into something more. but then we fast forward a decade or so, to find that ellis is married to annie, and michael is nowhere in sight, what happened in the years between?

the summer that melted everything by tiffany mcdaniel

this writer is outstanding! when a local prosecutor publishes an invitation to the devil to come to the country town of breathed, ohio, nobody quite expected that he would turn up. they especially didn't expect him to turn up a tattered and bruised thirteen-year-old boy.

betty by tiffany mcdaniel

i cried through entire chapters of this. a stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the appalachians in which a young girl discovers stark truths that will haunt her for the rest of her life. "a girl comes of age against the knife."

swimming in the dark by tomasz jedrowski

so sad and infuriating!!! set in early 1980s poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story of first love between two young men who eventually find themselves on opposite sides of the political divide

crying in h mart by michelle zauner

just hundreds of pages about a death so sad and inevitable. a memoir about growing up korean american, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.

the prophets by robert jones jr.

everything about this is upsetting and maddening. a novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a deep south plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence.

yolk by mary h.k. choi

to me all stories about siblings are intrinsically tragic. a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters switching places and committing insurance fraud to save one of their lives.

mayflies by andrew o'hagan

so sad but also a glorious celebration of life. a memorial to youth's euphorias and to everyday tragedy. a tender goodbye to an old union, it discovers the joy and the costs of love.

salvage the bones by jesmyn ward

an absolute masterpiece!!! hurricane katrina is threatening the coastal town of bois sauvage. esch and her three brothers are stocking food. she's fourteen and pregnant. as the twelve days that comprise the novel's framework yield to the final day, the unforgettable family pulls itself up to struggle for another day.

tell the wolves i'm home by carol rifka brunt

sad and sweet and also nothing is more heartbreaking than how people with aids were treated in the 80s. a moving story of love, grief, and renewal as two lonely people become the unlikeliest of friends and find that sometimes you don't know you've lost someone until you've found them. in 1987 after her uncle dies of hiv a fourteen year old girl gets to know his uncle's partner.

an american marriage by tayari jones

this woman is an incredible writer! this book is so absolutely frustrating. newlyweds celestial and roy are the embodiment of both the american dream and the new south. but as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart. roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime celestial knows he didn’t commit.

flowers for algernon by daniel keyes

heart-wrenching!!!! it's the story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse.

and among the classics:

if this is a man by primo levi

the account of the author's experience from when he was captured to his transfer as part of 650 italian jews from to auschwitz in poland and his experiences until the end.

all quiet on the western front by erich maria remarque

with the fire and patriotism of youth a group of german schoolboys sign up to go to war. what follows is the moving story of a young ‘unknown soldier’ experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.

giovanni's room by james baldwin

an american expatriate living in the south of france, reminisces about his life, while his ex-lover, an Italian immigrant named giovanni, is set to be executed in the morning.

if beale street could talk by james baldwin

a moving story of love in the face of injustice. tishis a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child. they have pledged to get married, but tonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. their families set out to clear his name.

#i hope at leat one of these will work!!!!! #thank you for asking!!! ❤️ #book recs #books #ask #reasoncourt