China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan

So Crazy Rich Asians was a really fun book and I was quite looking forward to the follow-up. But Kwan didn't deliver. The plot seemed haphazard and the magic was gone. 

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Linguistic Analysis of the Greek New Testament by Stanley Porter

This is a wide-ranging collection of essays: from the legal issues related to copyrighting critical texts to very technical linguistic discussions. As with most collections, it is somewhat uneven. I mostly picked it up for his treatment of Mark 13 but then ended up not being wowed by that chapter. I was perhaps most interested in his suggestion regarding hyponymy and the trinity--which is kind of funny since I'm not trinitarian.

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Reagan: The Life by H. W. Brands

I loved this book. Great story, well told, sympathetic but not sycophantic.

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The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows

I was expecting to adore this because I really liked The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, but it was lame.

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The Third Wife by Lisa Jewell

I really liked this. Quite good. And a great cover.

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Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans

Some parts of this really resonated with me but other parts were totally cloying.

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We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

I thought this was kind of lame.