{"id":2923,"date":"2019-06-11T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2021-05-29T13:55:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T17:55:08","slug":"top-ten-tuesday-june-11-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/top-ten-tuesday-june-11-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Tuesday | June 11, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Tuesday!<\/p>\n

Top Ten Tuesday<\/a>\u00a0is a Bookish Meme hosted by\u00a0That Artsy Reader Girl<\/a>, and this week’s theme is UNPOPULAR BOOKISH OPINIONS! (But SPOILER ALERT: That’s not what I did!)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I decided not to do this week’s theme just because.\u00a0So instead, this week I’m doing TEN MOST RECENT ADDITIONS TO MY TBR<\/strong> (which I did back on November 13,<\/a> December 18<\/a>, February 26<\/a>, April 16, <\/a>and May 7,<\/a> and honestly I’ll probably<\/del> definitely do it again because I really<\/strong> enjoy this theme<\/em>)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n\"TopOur Wayward Fate<\/strong> by Gloria Chao<\/a>
Published on<\/strong> October 15, 2019 by Simon Pulse<\/a>
Genres:<\/strong> Contemporary<\/a>, YA<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 320
Add to <\/strong>Goodreads<\/a>

A teen outcast is simultaneously swept up in a whirlwind romance and down a rabbit hole of dark family secrets when another Taiwanese family moves to her small, predominantly white midwestern town in this remarkable new novel from the critically acclaimed author of American Panda<\/i>, which The Wall Street Journal <\/i>called \u201cweepingly funny.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Seventeen-year-old Ali Chu knows that as the only Asian person at her school in middle-of-nowhere Indiana, she must be bland as white toast to survive. This means swapping her congee lunch for PB&Js, ignoring the clueless racism from her classmates and teachers, and keeping her mouth shut when people wrongly call her Allie instead of her actual name, Ah-lee<\/i>, after the mountain in Taiwan.<\/p>\n

Her autopilot existence is disrupted when she finds out that Chase Yu, the new kid in school, is also Taiwanese. Despite some initial resistance due to the they belong together<\/i> whispers, Ali and Chase soon spark a chemistry rooted in competitive martial arts, joking in two languages, and, most importantly, pushing back against the discrimination they face.<\/p>\n

But when Ali\u2019s mom finds out about the relationship, she forces Ali to end it. As Ali covertly digs into the why<\/i> behind her mother\u2019s disapproval, she uncovers secrets about her family and Chase that force her to question everything she thought she knew about life, love, and her unknowable future.<\/p>\n

Snippets of a love story from nineteenth-century China (a retelling of the Chinese folktale The Butterfly Lovers<\/i>) are interspersed with Ali\u2019s narrative and intertwined with her fate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t