Currently Reading: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
As with a lot of the world, I learned about this novel when the 2010 movie got rave reviews and mentioned the origin of the screenplay. I heard it was a ...
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Currently Reading: Margaret Atwood’s “The Year of the Flood”
I had to deliberate with myself whether to post this “review” on my main blog or the (low-trafficked) miscellaneous review blog I keep for fun. I really do like writing ...
Currently Reading: Maragaret Dilloway’s “How to be an American Housewife”
I learned about Margaret Dilloway’s How to Be an American Housewife from the June 2010 batch of LibraryThing.com’s Early Reviewer’s List. I peruse the list every month when I get the ...
Currently Reading: Lisa See’s “Shanghai Girls”
Earlier this summer, I read Lisa See’s Snow Flower and the Secret Fan because it will be a Hollywood movie in 2011. See’s current novel is Shanghai Girls, released last ...
Currently Reading: Anchee Min’s “Pearl of China”
I don’t quite remember what led me to Anchee Min’s Pearl of China, published earlier this year, in the first place. I probably noticed the Chinese author’s name in a ...
Currently Reading: Jean Kwok’s “Girl in Translation”
Another 2010 book down. I pat myself on my back to have started borrowing books from the library, even when they are still “ON ORDER”, paying attention to recommendations from ...
Currently Reading: Somewhere Inside
I try to recall the media furor over the captivity of Laura Ling and Euna Lee last year but I can’t really separate in my mind “actual” coverage by mainstream ...
Currently Reading: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Oh boy, the way in which I figure out the next novel I will read scares me, and is a testiment to how much of an Internet junkie I can ...
Currently Reading: A Thread of Sky
I feel like I just got back from a two-week tour of China’s Must-Sees with the women in my family. I guess that means Deanna Fei’s A Thread of Sky ...
Currently Reading: I Want Candy
In the spring, I spent ten Thursdays going to the downtown UBC campus for Adobe courses and quickly acquired a routine: briskly walk down after work (30 minutes), often listening ...
