Set about two years after China Rich Girlfriend, Rich People Problems starts with an event to bring the whole family together – Su Yi, the matriarch of the Young family, has a heart attack and is not expected to live long, prompting Nick to finally return home in an attempt to reconcile with his beloved grandmother. The family shenanigans are as fun and gossip filled as the rest of the books in the series, and Eddie, the clueless Hong Kong cousin, adds a lot of […]
I’m starting with the Man in the Mirror
Trigger warning: I reference Paul Ryan in this review. I have thoughts about this book. In Dream Hoarders, Richard Reeves comes for me and a whole bunch of my friends. Reeves points out that while some of the exasperation and ire directed at the 1% is justified, it is perhaps too narrowly focused. He sees that the entire top 20%–households with annual incomes of $112,000–is pulling away from the rest of the country. The top fifth of U.S. households saw a $4 trillion increase in […]
Honestly, by the end of the trilogy, I just felt sick.
I really liked Crazy Rich Asians. I’ll still see the movie. I have high hopes. It was a mostly fun look at the immense level of wealth in Singapore, and how these uber-wealthy families live their lives out in the world. And I had some trouble with the second book, China Rich Girlfriend. All the details that had been amusingly shocking in the first book were now just shocking and a bit disgusting. The sheer waste of money on things like clothes and jewelry and […]