See Crazy Rich Asians a Week Early on August 8

Crazy Rich Asians, the film based on Kevin Kwan's New York Times bestselling novel, is slated to hit theaters Wednesday, August 15. You can see it a week early on August 8 at sneak preview screenings at select AMC, Regal and Cinemark theaters. AMC's Crazy Rich Asians: Girls Night Out promo includes a free wine glass…

ByMichelleAugust 2, 20180Comments

Book Reviews

THE KISS QUOTIENT by Helen Hoang | Review & Excerpt

Review copy provided by the publisher Honest, Sexy, and A Summer Must Read Romance Helen Hoang’s THE KISS QUOTIENT is a stellar debut. About a woman with autism who hires an escort to teach her the ins and outs of sex and romantic relationships, THE KISS QUOTIENT is sexy, smart, and a fantastic showcase…

ByMichelleJune 5, 20180Comments

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‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Author Kevin Kwan Signs at University Bookstore

Author Kevin Kwan stopped at University Bookstore in Mill Creek on Sunday. Part of a three-city mini tour in the Pacific Northwest, Kwan promoted the paperback release of book #3 in the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, Rich People Problems. Kwan read from the book and answered a wide range of questions about the books, the…

ByMichelleMay 7, 20180Comments

Book Reviews

Hippie Food by Jonathan Kauffman

73 Years After Internment, Japanese-Americans Still Aren't Being Given Credit Where Credit is Due It's hard to imagine getting angry over tofu. But that’s where I found myself over the last week. The 76th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 fell on February 19. Each anniversary renews a complicated mix of anger, fear…

ByMichelleFebruary 27, 20180Comments

Book Reviews

WRONG TO NEED YOU by ALISHA RAI | 5-Star Review + Recipe

Alisha Rai’s Forbidden Hearts series is the contemporary romance we need in 2017 In WRONG TO NEED YOU (Forbidden Hearts #2), Sadia Ahmed is a widowed, single mother who runs into Jackson Kane, a man she hasn't seen or heard from in a decade. They were childhood friends, and he happens to be her…

ByMichelleNovember 28, 20170Comments

Recipes Salads

Chinese Chicken Salad Like Grandma Used to Make

If you think of Chinese Chicken Salad as something that went mainstream in the 80s because of Wolfgang Puck and his Chinois Chicken Salad, you might be missing a chapter. Madame Wu's Garden, an LA restaurant, may have really originated it another 20 years earlier. Now closed, the lore is that that Madame Wu's salad…

ByMichelleAugust 5, 20111Comment