Posts Tagged ‘aalit’

North American Chinatown

Sometimes I feel like I do not need to live in Vancouver to “keep in touch with my culture”; except for the personal touch of being in a city that ...

Summer Reading in the End of East (Vancouver)

I didn’t stagger out my reading so well and in the past three weeks have read two Chinese-North American novels with some superficial similarities that momentarily made my head spin ...

Trashy Summer Reads ’09

I can’t help jumping the gun because some days (not today), there are 13 straight hours of brilliant sunshine. I fantasize spreading out a blanket at the local park and ...

Currently reading: An epic love story of Tibet

Within 18 pages of Xinran’s Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet, I yearn to travel to Tibet, seemingly the best place on earth to have all materialism stripped ...

Currently reading: Miss Chopsticks

Yeah, I’m on a roll. Polished off Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures shortly after taking a whole week to read The Birth House. The latter novel was very good and rich ...

Currently reading: The Eighth Promise

I have to finish reading The Eighth Promise before I leave for Halifax. You see, I borrowed it from the library and it would be costly if it got recalled ...