https://blog.vollink.com/tags/book-review+romantic/ Recent content in book-review+romantic on On My Mind... Hugo -- gohugo.io Wed, 22 Jan 2020 12:00:00 -0500 https://blog.vollink.com/post/2020/01/of-curses-and-kisses/ Wed, 22 Jan 2020 12:00:00 -0500 https://blog.vollink.com/post/2020/01/of-curses-and-kisses/ Book cover I usually don't do the comparative thing, but this one stuck me pretty directly.  Imagine the movie Crazy Rich Asians, but teenagers at a boarding school in the mountains outside of Aspen, with a broadly international cast.  Main point: pretty much everybody is insanely rich. The main character, Jaya Rao, is a princess from an old kingdom of India who is literally there to break someone's heart. https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet/ Wed, 09 Jan 2019 12:00:00 -0500 https://blog.vollink.com/post/2019/01/hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet/ Book cover Seems an appropriate way to start off the first book review of 2019 with a book that came out in 2009.  On top of that, it's a book that I really, really enjoyed reading. This book follows the protagonist, Henry Lee both as a 13 year old in 1943, and an adult in 1986.  If you have been reading my reviews for a while, you'll note that I get picky when time starts jumping around, and I'm really happy to say that this book gets this simple detail absolutely right: Every chapter title includes the year. https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/the-remains-of-the-day/ Wed, 11 Jul 2018 12:00:00 -0400 https://blog.vollink.com/post/2018/07/the-remains-of-the-day/ Book cover (paperback) This is the 1989 book that later became a movie (which I never saw).  This won the Booker Prize.  We follow a quintessential British Butler named Stevens sometime after World War 2 on a journey to look up an ex-employee.  The journey itself is beautifully and descriptively written. While the main thread is the journey, the bulk of the story is Stevens' recollection of his past.