Book 30 of 2025

Title: Vera Wong's Giude for Snooping (On a Dead Man)
Author: Jesse Q Sutanto
Published: 2025
Format: eBook
Date Started: 4/29/2025
Date Finished: 5/8/2025
Days to read: 10

It was so fun to revisit SF Chinatown and Vera again! This is a great follow up to Vera’s first story, with an all new crime to solve and a new cast of characters, but with the same message of how being in community is healing. I also was surprised to learn that the author based it on her family’s personal experience with a scammer. I hope there’s more Vera books coming!

Book 29 of 2025

Title: Sunrise on the Reaping
Author: Suzanne Collins
Published: 2025
Format: Audiobook
Date Started: 4/29/25
Date Finished: 5/5/25
Days to read: 7

It was ‘fun’ to return to the world of Panem for another Hunger Games prequel - this time, Haymitch’s games. Although I don’t think state sanctioned child murder is actually fun... but this was a good book! Learning about why Haymitch ended up the way he did was tragic, and I loved all the connections between the prequel (Songbirds and Snakes) and the original Trilogy.