{"id":37917,"date":"2024-05-02T21:45:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T01:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=37917"},"modified":"2024-05-02T21:45:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T01:45:38","slug":"review-of-stand-up-yumi-chung-by-jessica-kim-narrated-by-greta-jung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=37917","title":{"rendered":"Review of Stand Up, Yumi Chung! by Jessica Kim, narrated by Greta Jung"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Stand Up, Yumi Chung!<\/em><\/p>\n

by Jessica Kim
\nnarrated by Greta Jung<\/p>\n

Penguin Random House Audio, 2020. 6 hours, 57 minutes.
\nReview written July 4, 2020, from a library eaudiobook<\/p>\n

Yumi Chung hoped to spend her summer working on her comedy routines, studying her favorite YouTube star, Jasmine Jasper\u2019s directions. Instead, her parents\u2019 Korean Barbecue restaurant is struggling, and they want Yumi to win a scholarship to stay at her private school, even though Yumi isn\u2019t happy there. So they sign Yumi up for an intensive study class and tell her to go straight to the library after class.<\/p>\n

But a new comedy club has opened up across the library parking lot. When Yumi peeks inside, she sees Jasmine Jasper herself! And she\u2019s leading a summer camp to train kid comedians \u2013 and thinks that Yumi is the missing Kay Nakamura who didn\u2019t show up the first day.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s a girl to do? If Yumi goes along with it, she gets to learn about comedy in person with her hero. She also makes new friends at the camp. But are they really friends if you don\u2019t tell them your real name?<\/p>\n

Yes, things do fall apart for Yumi before the end of the book. A strength of the book was how she dealt with it and her relationships. I thought the original coincidence \u2013 that Yumi\u2019s YouTube hero would show up in person and be running a camp \u2013 was way too big for my personal suspension of disbelief. But I did like the characters and that Yumi\u2019s parents, while being overly pushy immigrant parents, did show more depth when Yumi took the time to talk with them.<\/p>\n

Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n

Source: This review is based on an eaudiobook from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n

Disclaimer: I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n

What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n

*Note* To try to catch up on posting reviews, I\u2019m posting the oldest reviews I\u2019ve written on my blog without making a page on my main website. They\u2019re still good books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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