Quarantine reading
Finished #1 on May 22 and started China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan on May 24 and finished it on May 30.
Another quick read - engaging, entertaining, funny, over the top, stayed up too late reading at night.
There isn't a movie (yet) to compare the book to - so my mind used the images from the first movie throughout reading this book.
If you thought #1 was over the top, wait until you read #2. While I very much enjoyed learning the proverbial, "what's next?" about all of the characters, I kept thinking to myself with each page, chapter, character, "come on - this is too much!", "this is too over the top," "really???".
I like that we get to see what life is like for Rachel and Nick, for Kitty and Bernard (love his character from movie #1 - Jimmy Yang from Silicon Valley is hilarious), Astrid, Peik Lin, all of them. I truly love a good sequel, 1 is never enough.
If you liked the first book, I'll go out on a limb here and say that I'm sure you'll like this one.
Quarantine Reading
My boss sent a Slack to our team asking if we wanted any of the books she was done with and wanting to offload after a bout of quarantine cleaning. She had the 2nd and 3rd books in the Crazy Rich Asians series. I'd been wanting to read them, so I took her up on her offer to mail the 2 books to me and requested the first in the series from the library. Seeing as how the library is closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I had to get the eBook. Of course all of the copies were checked out.
Side note - it's an eBook. As in "electronic" - how is there a limit on those? It is virtual... Oh well - it didn't take long for a copy to be ready for me.
I started reading Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan on about May 14 and finished it on May 22.
I really liked the book. It was funny, entertaining, a definite page turner for me. Here's where I had some issues. The movie was different. I kept running through the movie in my head as I was reading the book and thinking, "that's not how it was in the movie." I think that's the blessing and curse of the book/movie syndrome. The book paints a picture for you that your mind needs to visualize. Movies visualize the picture for you and your mind is along for the ride. Much to my chagrin, the movie never 100% matches the book. So, what do you do first? Read the book and be disappointed by the movie (because it isn't the same) or watch the movie and be disappointed by the book (because it isn't the same)? Really - what's the answer?
I can see how the movie was born of this book - all of the pieces are there. The characters are all there. The settings are all there. The over-the-top-ness of wealth is there. Most of the exchanges between the characters are all there. Except they aren't even though they are.
Bottom line - this is an entertaining read, it's funny, it's engaging, it's entertaining. I laughed, I stayed up too late reading at night, and when I finished it, I was definitely ready to jump in to book #2 in the series.
