Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen

 

The downside of keeping a book journal instead of writing reviews on a book blog is that sharing those thoughts online isn't quite the same.

The upside, though, is that writing a journal entry by hand, instead of typing a review, shifts the gears in my head a little bit about how I want to frame my thoughts. I initially struggled REALLY hard about how I was going to review this book, and then I ended up deleting my draft altogether. And then I thought about deleting this entire blog altogether, because I wasn't sure if I still wanted to review books so much as just ruminate on them, which is why I started a book journal for myself. I don't know if I still want to offer my opinions on books for other people anymore; I want to explore my opinions on books for myself.

For now, though, I will just share what I wrote about this book, by posting the pictures of the pages from my book journal. I don't know if I will keep blogging, keep journaling, keep posting my journal on my blog... *shrug!* Anyway, I picked this book for Task 24 of Book Riot's 2022 Read Harder challenge, which was to pick a challenge from a previous year, and I picked 2021's "Read a food memoir by an author of color."