friendships – Reading While Fat

Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers and Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)

Book covers for both Vera Wong books by Jesse Q. Sutanto. The first book is black with a gray-haired woman peeking from behind window blinds. The second book is a mostly orange cover with a white-haired woman with glasses peeking from behind a door.

Jesse Q. Sutanto has created an unforgettable (if sometimes annoying) character in Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (2023) and Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man) (2025)! I so enjoyed the audiobooks, each narrated by Eunice Wong. Set in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Vera Wong is a widow, set in her ways ofContinue reading “Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers and Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)”

The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts

Nonfiction was only a fraction of what I read in 2025, but The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts (2023) by Loren Grush made me want to read more. While some of the individual women that were part of the first women to be part of NASA’s first astronaut class to includeContinue reading “The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts”