Welcome to Litsy!

I biked 20 miles this morning instead of my usual 10 or 15 so I wouldn‘t have to put SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW down until I‘d finished it. What an awesome book! On the surface, it‘s pure fun; deeper down, it‘s about two artists who rediscover their focus as they spend a single, intense day together. Lucky‘s a singer who‘s lost the joy. Jack‘s a photographer who‘s embraced morally dubious methods. I loved and rooted for them both.

I‘m 80 pages into my third book of the weekend, and it‘s super fun so far. Yay!

Enjoying something that Lucky misses about California

Maurene Goo‘s modern K-pop riff on Roman Holiday charmingly captures the heart and spirit of its source. Which sometimes means trying to find modern versions of certain tropes that are more palatable than the original. Goo manages this update fairly well, but it‘s unavoidably sketchy. Still, all in all, it‘s a fun, sweet, candy-colored love letter to romantic comedies, Hong Kong, and following your dreams. 💖 ⁣

YA Romance. Modern retelling of Roman Holiday, featuring a K-Pop star that reminds me of Britney Spears's song Lucky. Coincidentally, the name of the heroine.

Also, this was the first book from this author that I was excited to read from beginning to end. I bailed on her second book (the food truck one), and it took forever for me to get through her first (fake boyfriend trope, based on K-Drama)

#YA #Romantsy

Cravings. Didn't have time to go to Chinatown on the way home, so 85° will need to be a substitute. Might go to In-N-Out later this evening

"Her patronus would be a spreadsheet."

A fun #YA K-pop star/ordinary guy romance that is self-aware about rom-coms, references Wong Kar Wai, makes Hong Kong sound deeply romantic, and has serious self-knowledge moments amid the awkward sad and bad betrayal times (which the reader knows to be coming). 4⭐️ #romantsy

“You are so lucky!” I rhapsodized as Jack purchased the tickets.”This is the OG. Everything I know about Hong Kong? This movie” — I jabbed the poster for emphasis — “God, Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung are, like, these untouchable, beautiful beings.”
“They look exactly the same today as they did in this movie,” Jack mused.
“Asian don‘t raisin,” I said.
He threw back his head and laughed for so long that I got embarrassed.

1. Tagged, and whewwwww a few more (Milkman, Crossing the Lines, etc.)
2. The True Queen, by Zen Cho
3. I‘m in Heidelberg, Germany, with my partner and a good friend, so all weekend and into the weekend then the next week with going to Paris is fun!
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

Light, fluffy (with a sprinkling of depth), & exactly what I needed right now.

New #YA K-pop romance on my Kobo (uh, new to me, anyway). Set in Hong Kong. So far,it reminds me of Roman Holiday, which I am pretty sure is deliberate. Not the same age difference though.

Sometimes I just need a contemporary break. It feels good to step away from my "normal" reads (fantasy, mystery, sci-fi) and pick up something lighter. Of course no I am going to have that song stuck in my head though.

#30JuneBooks

Day 12: #spinepoetry

“The Long Walk,
Skyward,
Somewhere Only We Know.”

I don‘t have a ton of books with me at the moment so I had to make do 🤷🏻‍♀️😬

@howjessreads #books #maurenegoo #skyward #sff #stephenking

I loved this! It's a YA Roman Holiday retelling with a K-pop star and a paparazzi that had some surprising depth about happiness and following your dreams. I'll definitely be checking out her other books.

Keeping my hurt foot elevated and reading this Roman Holiday-inspired YA.

K Pop sensation Lucky is poised to make her big American debut, but she‘s beginning to chafe at her restrictive lifestyle. Then she meets Jack, a tabloid photojournalist, and across the course of just one day they fall in love with Hong Kong, and maybe each other? This was a sweet YA romance about finding and pursuing your passions in life.

I really enjoyed this book. Lucky is a K-Pop star who just finished her Asia tour. She is getting ready to come to America for hopefully her big break. But right now she really wants a hamburger but she knows no one will let her have one. So she decides to sneak out of the hotel. She meets Jack who is taking pictures of famous people for extra money. They have no idea that the next 24 hours will change bother of their lives!

Woke up this morning super dizzy and the only time I don't feel like the world is spinning is when I am laying down. So I guess I will be spending this rainy day reading and watching Friends!

This is a K-Pop themed reading evening because my friends are having a BTS weekend complete with seeing the Chicago tour both nights and getting a hotel suite in a city we live in.

I realize I am cutting off some of the cute cover but I just now read beyond KPop star and journalist and this was an important revelation.

Sick and huddled in front of a fire, so time to jump my TBR and start something fun.

I couldn't wait any longer to read this! It was so delightful and funny, and perfect timing for me since I've started listening to kpop recently (BTS 💜)!
I got a Roman Holiday vibe from this story and I loved it.
Also, this book made me HUNGRY! All of the food descriptions were so tantalizing.
4/5🌟 to this lovely #ya romcom
#arc

Fierce Reads sent me a package today! It‘s a wide range of YA book from high fantasy to contemporary romance, thrillers and more! My 13 year old daughter already picked Mind Games by Shana Silver, release date August 2019.I think I‘m going for Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo, release date May 2019.
@bookbrag
#FierceReads

Read in January! Favorites: Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo and You Are Enough by Jen Petro-Roy.
I haven‘t been on Litsy too much lately! Hello! #readin2019 #readingstats

Love, love, love! Maurene Goo writes fun YA romance with emotional depth so well. Perfect for Jennifer E. Smith or Jenny Han fans. And yes, it is screaming to be a Netflix movie ;)