{"id":17446,"date":"2022-03-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=17446"},"modified":"2022-03-19T22:24:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T02:24:47","slug":"top-ten-tuesday-march-15-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/top-ten-tuesday-march-15-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Tuesday | March 15, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Happy Tuesday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top Ten Tuesday<\/a> is a Bookish Meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl<\/a>, and this week’s theme is BOOKS ON MY SPRING 2022 #TBR!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Happy Tuesday! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love making #TBRs<\/a>. And then I almost always immediately read something else and completely change them. Today\u2019s #TBR was fun to make, and I\u2019m excited to see how long I can stick to it before I change it up! I did actually read a few of the books from my Winter #TBR<\/a> (4 out of 10 finished, 2 out of 10 started), so I’m excited to share some of the books I’m hoping to read this spring!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now without any further ado, here’s this week’s Top Ten Tuesday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\"TopPortrait of a Thief<\/strong> by Grace D. Li<\/a>
Published on<\/strong> April 5, 2022 by Tiny Reparations Books<\/a>
Genres:<\/strong> Contemporary<\/a>, New Adult<\/a>, Thriller<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 384
Add to <\/strong>Goodreads<\/a>
Author Links:<\/strong> Website<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Goodreads<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>

History is told by the conquerors. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted from other countries, kept even now.
\nWill Chen plans to steal them back.
\nA senior at Harvard, Will fits comfortably in his carefully curated roles: a perfect student, an art history major and sometimes artist, the eldest son who has always been his parents\u2019 American Dream. But when a mysterious Chinese benefactor reaches out with an impossible\u2014and illegal\u2014job offer, Will finds himself something else as well: the leader of a heist to steal back five priceless Chinese sculptures, looted from Beijing centuries ago.
\nHis crew is every heist archetype one can imag\u00adine\u2014or at least, the closest he can get. A con artist: Irene Chen, a public policy major at Duke who can talk her way out of anything. A thief: Daniel Liang, a premed student with steady hands just as capable of lockpicking as suturing. A getaway driver: Lily Wu, an engineering major who races cars in her free time. A hacker: Alex Huang, an MIT dropout turned Silicon Valley software engineer. Each member of his crew has their own complicated relationship with China and the identity they\u2019ve cultivated as Chinese Americans, but when Will asks, none of them can turn him down.
\nBecause if they succeed? They earn fifty million dollars\u2014and a chance to make history. But if they fail, it will mean not just the loss of everything they\u2019ve dreamed for themselves but yet another thwarted at\u00adtempt to take back what colonialism has stolen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t