#gloriachao

[lisa-lostinlit]

💬 What genre do you want to read more of in 2021? . I’m hoping to read more contemporaries this year! Thank you to @simonteen for adding these two new YA contemporaries to my TBR! Both are out now, so be sure to check them out! . . . h a s h t a g s ⇣ #rentaboyfriend #loveandolives #jennaevanswelch #gloriachao #yacontemporary #yaaddict #yabookstagrammer #bookworm #bookwormlife #romancebooks #romancereadersofinstagram #ourmoodydays #bookobsessed #cosyhome #cosyvibes #bookgram #quietchaos #aestheticbooks #amomentofwonder #slowandsimple #dreaminginpictures #reclaimthehappy #beautyyouseek #bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CJhroK2HBY0/?igshid=nyajteijtvuj

[taylor-reads-books]

“If I lied, the real me would disappear.” -Gloria Chao, American Panda •——————————————————————————• May is Asian American & Pacific Islander heritage month. Do you have an books by AAPI authors that you plan on reading this month? American Panda is on my TBR! •——————————————————————————• #flatlay #bookishflatlay #americanpanda #gloriachao #bookish #bookishlove #bipocauthors #aapiheritagemonth #beautifulbooks #booksandcoffee #bibliophile #bibliophilelife #booknerd #bookworm #booklove #bookishpost #bookstagram #bookphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/COgHRFTLFrQ/?igshid=rqw0tzwanjx5

[thereaderandthechef]

🍂Tour Stop + Intl BookGiveaway!🍂 If you could rent a fictional character to spend an entire day with you, who would it be?! 👀🙌📚 . Today we are excited to kick off the Bookstagram Tour for Rent a Boyfriend by @gloriacchao! To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before meets The Farewell in this incisive romantic comedy about a college student who hires a fake boyfriend to appease her traditional Taiwanese parents, to disastrous results, from the acclaimed author of American Panda & Our Wayward Fate! 😍📚🥮 . Mini Review: If you love the fake dating trope, then you will adore Rent a Boyfriend! 😍 I enjoyed following along Chloe and Andrew (this book has dual POVs) as they meet through the most unconventional way: Rent for Your ‘Rents, the fake boyfriend service. Everything unravels into a disastrous situation & the personal struggles that both of these characters go through made me feel so much for them. 🥺 Living up to parents expectations is a big theme in here and the courage it takes to follow your own path. Rent a Boyfriend is out now from @simonteen and you are in for a fun rom-com that also happens to make you feel hungry for mooncakes & delicious Taiwanese food! 😍🙌 . “Game. On. All I had to do was convince my parents that Andrew was the love of my life and theirs. Piece of (moon)cake, right?” - Chloe, Rent a Boyfriend . 🥮INTL TOUR-WIDE GIVEAWAY🥮 One reader will win a paperback copy of OUR WAYWARD FATE by Gloria Chao! . 🥮HOW TO ENTER🥮 - Like & leave a comment
- Follow us, @gloriacchao & @mtmctours! . 🥮ADDITIONAL ENTRIES🥮 - Tag friends in different comments! - Share this post via stories tagging me, mtmctours & gloriacchao so we can see it!     - Visit the next tour stop: tomorrow’s host is @peireads! . Ends November 27th, 11:59 PM EST. Winner announced on MTMC Tours' account. (Not affiliated/endorsed by Instagram) . . . #booktography #RentaBoyfriend #bookobsessed #GloriaChao #bookreview #bookpic #bookishlife #mtmctours #bookblogger #bookoftheday #booknerdigans https://www.instagram.com/p/CHn73TsBFfU/?igshid=w973nnqaz9lr

[litcelebrasian]

Welcome to May! To kick things off on our #AsianLitPhoto challenge, here’s American Panda by @gloriacchao, an adorable story of Mei’s life being part of two cultures, family expectations, and her first year at MIT.⠀ ⠀ It covers the following prompts: East Asian MC, Romance with POC/Indigenous Love interest, and Contemporary with Asian MC. ⠀ ⠀ 📷: Co-host Wendy⠀ ⠀ #litcelebrasian #asianlit #weneeddiversebooks #ownvoices #diversity #diversebookbloggers #gloriachao #americanpanda #taiwaneseamerican #youngadult https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw5SDGEHuX6/?igshid=1xlo01ggucye1

[leavingourpapertrail]

I’ve been in a TERRIBLE reading slump all week, so last night I stared at my shelves for a good ten minutes looking for anything that might help. AMERICAN PANDA snagged my attention, I’ve been so looking forward to reading this one, so I decided to grab it and give it a try now. I AM SO HAPPY I DID. This book is BEAUTIFUL!!! It’s incredibly lovable, insightful, stunningly written, with a charmer of a main character, a swoony love interest, and is as sweet as hot chocolate. AMERICAN PANDA is a debut by @gloriacchao, and it hits shelves in February, so make sure you all keep an eye out for this one! • #americanpanda #gloriachao #bookworm #bookstagram #book #books #booklove #booklover #booknerd #booksofinstagram #igbooks #igreads #read #reader #yalit #yareads #bibliophile #bookblog #bookblogger #bookstagrammer #bookgram #bookaddict #instareads #bookish #yaliterature #yalovin

[marioncolibraries]

TOMORROW!! ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ Middle School⁣ ‘Tween the Pages (Fairmont):⁣ Students in grades 5-8: We’ll be meeting Monday, March 11 at 3:30 pm to discuss Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh. Stop by the front desk to check out a copy!⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ High School⁣ ⁣ Fiction Addiction (Mannington):⁣ Fiction Addiction is books, food and FUN! If you are interested joining this teen book club, pick up a copy of The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness at the Mannington Public Library and join us March 11 at 3:30 for the book discussion, craft and FOOD!⁣ ⁣ ⁣ Awesome Readers Club (Fairmont):⁣ We’ll be meeting Monday, March 11 at 5 pm to discuss American Panda by Gloria Chao. Stop by the front desk to pick up your copy of the book!⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #teenbookclub #ya #youngadult #librariesofinstagram #mymarionwv⁣ #americanpanda #nowhereboy #theknifeofneverlettinggo #patrickness #gloriachao https://www.instagram.com/mcpls/p/Bu1y13sgkbO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=33augy8ts5ll

[theheartofabookblogger]

What are your favorite romance tropes? • • Fake dating is my favorite romance trope, and I’m excited to read RENT A BOYFRIEND! Thank you to my friend @theresajsnyder for gifting me a copy! • • • #rentaboyfriend #gloriachao #simonteen #pinkbooks #ombrebooks #bookombre #yaromcom #bookmail #toberead #tbrpile #yacontemporary #yaromance #yabooks #yabookstagram #yabookstagrammer #yareads #bookobsessed #booksbooksbooks #booksconnectus #romancelandia #romancereader #readingromance #teenbooks #prettybooks #coverlove #boostingya #yalit #diversebooks #wndb #weneeddiversebooks

[pagingserenity]

QTOD: What's your favorite form of selfcare?⁣ ⁣ After a stressful day (or week) I like to just relax in bed with a nice book, preferably a rom com or some other kind of feel good read with a happy ending.⁣ ⁣ —⁣ ⁣ How are you spending your Sunday?⁣ ⁣ I'm hoping to start Rent a Boyfriend today. I was planning on reading it last week so I could review before it comes out on Tuesday but life got too crazy.⁣ ⁣ Besides that, I'm hoping to get some more cleaning done. My room's a mess and the disorganization is kind of making my mind all jumbled.⁣ ⁣ .⁣ ⁣ .⁣ ⁣ .⁣ ⁣ ⚔ challenges⁣ ⁣ #ampersandnov20 [H is for...]⁣ ⁣ #allthebooksnov20 [book & warm drink]⁣ ⁣ #cozyascanbee [selfcare sunday]⁣ ⁣ #rfabnov20 [person on cover]⁣ ⁣ .⁣ ⁣ #RentABoyfriend #GloriaChao #bookdragon #bookblogger #readingisfun #readreadread #readeveryday #bookpost #readingtime📖 #booksmakemehappy #mybookishfeatures #bookdragons #cozyreads #lightread https://instagr.am/p/CHWDkAJAncW/

[kristinjaques20]

“I’m Chinese-American, America has a culture too. Why can’t I identify with that also? What if I identify with it more?” - American Panda. • #newbooksof2018 #booksreadin2018 #bestbooksof2018 #americanpanda #gloriachao. • #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #bookstagrammer #bookphoto #bookphotography #booksoutside #bookpic #books. • @gloriacchao https://www.instagram.com/p/BraXzJWnBiT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1awi3quwuo2xy

[leavingourpapertrail]

What’s was one of your favorite books of 2018? • I looooved American Panda! And now I’m super excited for @gloriacchao’s next novel, Our Wayward Fate! • SYNOPSIS: Seventeen-year-old Ali Chu knows that as the only Asian person at her school in middle-of-nowhere Indiana, she must be bland as white toast to survive. This means swapping her congee lunch for PB&Js, ignoring the clueless racism from her classmates and teachers, and keeping her mouth shut when people wrongly call her Allie instead of her actual name, Ah-lee, after the mountain in Taiwan. Her autopilot existence is disrupted when she finds out that Chase Yu, the new kid in school, is also Taiwanese. Despite some initial resistance due to the they belong together whispers, Ali and Chase soon spark a chemistry rooted in competitive martial arts, joking in two languages, and, most importantly, pushing back against the discrimination they face. But when Ali’s mom finds out about the relationship, she forces Ali to end it. As Ali covertly digs into the why behind her mother’s disapproval, she uncovers secrets about her family and Chase that force her to question everything she thought she knew about life, love, and her unknowable future. Snippets of a love story from nineteenth-century China (a retelling of the Chinese folktale The Butterfly Lovers) are interspersed with Ali’s narrative and intertwined with her fate. • Is this a book you’d be interested in? • #americanpanda #ourwaywardfate #gloriachao #bookstagram #bookish #bibliophile #booknerd #yalit #yaliterature #yalovin https://www.instagram.com/p/BzdFz_jh7CW/?igshid=kk01qkvx59qp

[agingerlyreview]

Happy Thursday! We are so close to the weekend... I can smell it! Have you heard of this new gem that was just published? American Panda by Gloria Chao is one book I cannot wait to read. . . . 🍣 . . Synopsis: An incisive, laugh-out-loud contemporary debut about a Taiwanese-American teen whose parents want her to be a doctor and marry a Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer despite her squeamishness with germs and crush on a Japanese classmate. At seventeen, Mei should be in high school, but skipping fourth grade was part of her parents' master plan. Now a freshman at MIT, she is on track to fulfill the rest of this predetermined future: become a doctor, marry a preapproved Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer, produce a litter of babies. With everything her parents have sacrificed to make her cushy life a reality, Mei can't bring herself to tell them the truth--that she (1) hates germs, (2) falls asleep in biology lectures, and (3) has a crush on her classmate Darren Takahashi, who is decidedly not Taiwanese. But when Mei reconnects with her brother, Xing, who is estranged from the family for dating the wrong woman, Mei starts to wonder if all the secrets are truly worth it. Can she find a way to be herself, whoever that is, before her web of lies unravels? . . . 🍣 . . QOTD: What female character would you like to be your BFF?. . . 🍣 . . #ireadya #yalit #yalovin #bookstafeatures #booknerdigans #booknerd #bookdragon #bookworm #igbooks #igreads #instabooks #instaread #instareads #bookstagrammer #bookishallure #bookishmerch #bookishmerchandise #fiercefeatures #loverofbooks #bookstagramfeature #bookstagram #americanpanda #gloriachao #simonpulse

[akzfineart]

My weekend reads. I’m halfway through THE BROKEN ONES and loving it! My preorder of AMERICAN PANDA came early, so I’m hoping to start that next. #bookstagram #yabooks #thebrokenones #fantasy #danielleljensen #canlit #contemporary #ownvoices #americanpanda #gloriachao #coverlust #weekendreads #simonandschuster #books

[theheartofabookblogger]

#SwoonReadersChallenge: The Big F — Set in College • There’s only a handful of YA books set in college that I can think of off the top of my head, but it does seem like more are starting to release. AMERICAN PANDA debuted last year and I was so excited for it since it’s set in college! • • What are your favorite books with a college setting? • • • #americanpanda #gloriachao #simonteen #booksandflowers #swoonreaders #yabooks #yabookstagram #booklove #igreads #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #yabookstagrammer #yacontemporary #yaromance #yareads #bookobsessed #diversebooks #weneeddiversebooks #ownvoices

[pagingserenity]

QOTD: What’s your spirit animal? . When I was younger, I used to say panda 🐼 because they pretty much just eat and sleep all day. Wish I could have THAT daily routine. Plus, I AM an #AmericanPanda or ABC (American Born Chinese), whatever you want to call it. I’m also Taiwanese culturally so it always warms my heart to see books about Taiwanese Americans being published. So of course, I had to recreate this cover! -- Some 📷 notes: 🖌️ I drew all the art elements on Photoshop. It took me WAY longer than I thought it would ™️ This is one of the few photos I posted that I didn’t watermark… didn’t need to ☕ There was coffee in my mug at the start of the photoshoot but it was all gone by the time I got the picture I wanted . ……………………….. . #rfabjan19 [girl on cover] #fearyournoveljanuary [snowy reads] . . #gloriachao #simonteen #recreatethecover #bookgirl #bookstagram #YA #yanovels #read #booknerd #bookishpost #reading #bibliophile #bookworm #booknerd #bookish #photoshop #igcreative_editz #bookblogger #bookphotography #yacontemporary #igreader #bookstagrammer http://bit.ly/2LWUhsp

[kristinjaques20]

What did you read this month? • #childrenofbloodandbone #tomiadeyemi #squirrelgirl #squirrelmeetsworld #2fuzzy2furious #shannonhale #deanhale #ahsoka #ekjohnston #loststars #claudiagray #americanpanda #gloriachao #awrinkleintime #madelienelengle #thehateugive #angiethomas. • #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #bookstgrammer #booksoutside #bookstack #booksoutside #booksandcandle #bookphotography #bookphotos #books. • @tadeyemibooks @squeetus @ek_johnston @claudia_gray @gloriacchao @angiethomas

[gloriachaoauthor]

Love these photos from the Taiwanese American Cultural Festival today in Union Square, San Francisco! Thank you so much for sharing, @hochie71! So appreciative of the support. Wish I could have been there! 📷 credit: @hochie71 . . . . . #taiwaneseamericanculturalfestival #taiwaneseamerican #taiwaneseamericanliterature #OurWaywardFate #AmericanPanda #books📚 #bookfestival #bookdisplay #yalit #gloriachao #authorsofig #authorlife #writerlife #writersofig #authorgram #bookgram #sanfranciscofestival (at Union Square, San Francisco) https://www.instagram.com/gloriacchao/p/BxVksoKnzzk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1cq6wwo9izv79