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Unpacking my feelings about K-Pop for kids

March 6, 2023March 6, 2023 Catch Star Girl

Kiddo (7.5 yo) knows about BTS, barely. They have pop singles playing on the radio and are mainstream enough that

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Reading Asian American Literature 唐人寫書 

I’ve got this book On Hold: Hollow Bamboo

February 27, 2023February 27, 2023 Catch Star Girl

New-to-me debuting author William Seto Ping (Instagram @thepingtothepong) has a novel (memoir? autofic?) came out on February 21, 2023 and

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Reading Asian American Literature 唐人寫書 

Forecasting MY future from my Chinese horoscope

August 29, 2019 Catch Star Girl

Let me tell you about the mini drama surrounding baby’s birth. I opted for a C-section as that is how

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Asians in Music 唐人唱歌 Parenting 3G-CBC 

That fobby influence & the Little Apple song

April 8, 2019April 8, 2019 Catch Star Girl

As much as I might mumble to myself, “Good grief, does the grandmother just sit the two toddlers in front

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Diversity in Canada Reads

March 26, 2019March 26, 2019 Catch Star Girl

While the English version of Canada Reads has been held since 2002, I started tuning in around 2011 (maybe). In

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Reading Asian American Literature 唐人寫書 

Currently reading Jeremy Grimaldi’s A Daughter’s Deadly Deception

June 12, 2018 Catch Star Girl

Look what I found when browsing through VPL’s eBook collection when I filtered for Available Now for some instant gratification

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Farewell to Anthony Bourdain

June 8, 2018June 8, 2018 Catch Star Girl

It’s been a sucker punch of a week with news of the loss of celebrities. Three days ago, on June

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Reading Asian American Literature 唐人寫書 

Currently reading Lisa Ko’s The Leavers

March 4, 2018 Catch Star Girl

I finished reading Lisa Ko’s The Leavers at the end of September and I found myself racing to the end

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Reading Asian American Literature 唐人寫書 

Currently reading Weike Wang’s Chemistry

August 16, 2017 Catch Star Girl

Sometimes I find myself making so many notes while I am reading a novel that I then know I need

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Reading Asian American Literature 唐人寫書 

Currently reading Lisa See’s The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

July 19, 2017 Catch Star Girl

As it tends to happen with Lisa See novels, I hear about them around publication and the marketing machinery sucks

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