Books and Boba

On this episode we discuss our February 2020 book club pick The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang. Reera's friend Kaitlin Kelly joins us to discuss this fun (and very horny) romantic romp featuring a heroine on the autism spectrum and her Asian American male love interest. 

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The Books & Boba March 2020 pick is The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar

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On this episode, we go over the latest book and publishing news in Asian American literature for our Books & Boba mid-month check-in for February 2020.

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The Books & Boba February 2020 pick is The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

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On this episode of Books and Boba, we chat with Mike Chen, the author of A Beginning at the End, a story of survival and rebuilding in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco after a global pandemic wipes out most of humanity.

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The Books & Boba February 2020 pick is The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

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On this episode we discuss our January 2020 book club pick The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu & translated by Ken Liu. Join us as we try to wrap our heads around this hard science fiction epic about first contact with an alien civilization from a different context than we're used to in western sci-fi. 

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The Books & Boba February 2020 pick is The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

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It's our first mid-month book news check-in for the new decade! We go over the latest book and publishing news in Asian American literature for January 2020.

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The Books & Boba January 2020 pick is The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu & translated by Ken Liu

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On this episode we chat with author Abigail Hing Wen about her recently released debut novel LOVEBOAT, TAIPEI. A coming-of-age story about a college bound girl named Ever Wong, torn between pursuing her parent's expectations and her own personal dreams, who finds herself spending the summer of a lifetime in Taiwan attending the Overseas Compatriot Youth Formosa Study Tour, also infamously known as "Loveboat."

LOVEBOAT, TAIPEI is available now at booksellers everywhere!

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The Books & Boba January 2020 pick is The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu & translated by Ken Liu

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It's time to discuss our Books and Boba December 2019 book club pick, Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie, a modern day retelling of the Greek tragedy Antigone. We discuss the book's themes of what loyalty to family, love, and country means when your people are considered enemies of the state, and the physical and psychological costs of the sacrifices people make to survive as diaspora immigrants.

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The Books & Boba January 2020 pick is The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu & translated by Ken Liu

This podcast is part of Potluck: An Asian American Podcast Collective

On our last episode of the decade, we review the latest book and publishing news in Asian American literature for our Books & Boba Mid-Month check-in for December 2019.

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The Books & Boba December 2019 pick is Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

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On this episode, we go over the latest book and publishing news in Asian American literature for our Books & Boba mid-month check-in for November 2019.

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The Books & Boba November 2019 pick is Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger

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