(Be sure to check out the discussion of the Hot Fun in the Summertime romance selections: Georgie, All Along; Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute; and Never Been Kissed.) Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mysteries, Book 1: Arsenic and Adobo Whether you’re a returning CannonBookClub participant or a newbie, welcome! This is the place to discuss Mia P. Manansala’s Arsenic and Adobo. You don’t have to be registered for CBR15 to comment below, but there are a few ground rules: The topics are numbered, so please refer to […]
There is more food in this one than in the last one, if that’s even possible. Have your local Filipino restaurant on standby whilst reading.
Homicide and Halo-Halo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen, #2) by Mia P. Manansala
I told myself I would continue with this series if the writing got better in this book, and it did! There were a couple rather tragic instances of dialogue (see below*), but for the most part both the dialogue and inner narration/characterization for Lila got much better. I feel like I have a better handle on who she is as a person, where in the first one she was sort of a blank slate. There is still a lot of room for improvement, but I […]
Her big Filipino Christian Egyptian Muslim Life: And isn’t it grand?
I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir by Malaka Gharib
I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir is a humorous look at when cultures clash and you are the result. Malaka Gharib’s coming of age story shows how life is a balancing of yourself. And, finally finding your place where you have all your pieces comfortable. And love can happen anyplace. Even to an Egyptian Muslim and a Filipino Catholic. And a year after marrying they can have their American Dream: a girl named Malaka (like Monica with an L). Yet, clashes happen. Divorces […]