12.Jan.2010 Waiting by Ha Jin
I have other things to post, but I almost can’t wait to talk about this book! I read it sometime at the end of December during my vacation, brought over to January, so I’ll just count as my first book of 2010. And what a great start it was!
Waiting is written in English by Ha [...]
01.Jan.2010 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan was a nice surprise. Yes, many of you have raved about how good the book was, but somehow I had managed to keep my expectation low. Most probably because it’s written by a woman, who despite of her Chinese heritage, is looking very white :). I don’t know [...]
06.Sep.2009 China Challenge: Embracing Roots
My grandfather from my dad’s side came to Indonesia from China by boat in his youth carrying a single suitcase. Only in recent years that I knew at that time he also left a wife and two children. He later married my grandmother and never went back to his birth country. He’s my closest link [...]
04.Jul.2008 The Updated 1001 Books
So apparently they changed the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list. They took out and added not only a few books, but 284 books! That’s a whole lot of changes! Almost a third? So now we have the 2006 version and 2008 version. I wonder if they will change the list every [...]
12.Jun.2008 A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
This book is shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, interestingly. I was flipping through the first few pages at Borders and was intrigued, so I borrowed the book not long after from the library. As funny and interesting the main character’s thoughts were, I quickly got annoyed with the deliberate writing of [...]
01.Aug.2007 The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
This is the 3rd book from Amy Tan, her first book that I read. It’s about Olivia, a half Chinese-American, that meets her half sister from China, Kwan.
A lot of stuff about ghosts, reincarnation, and basically all Chinese superstitions. There are two parallel stories going on, this life and previous life. Both’s equally interesting :)
What [...]
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The first book from Amy Tan. It’s collection of stories about mother daughter relationships (four pairs to be exact :). Again, I feel it’s so captivating by each and every word.
It’s like magic, fairy tale, and reality put together. I wish I could put all the quotes that caught me here, but then I would [...]
Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah
Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter is a true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter (as per title ;). The family is one of the richest in Hong Kong, who migrated from mainland China.
I have to give this book a 4 stars, just because of the extra ordinary journey that the author [...]
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
The book is a collection of stories, journal, published writings of Amy Tan. This time it’s non-fiction. I found the book in Biography section. I wouldn’t miss this book, because I’m such a fan of Tan :)
There are some chapters that I love so much, but some others I had a bit of struggle to [...]
The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan
I love this book to death! For me it’s the best of Amy Tan’s and the best of any novel I read in my life. Every word flows so right and sounds so meaningful. I kept saying it in my mind, “She’s such a genious!”
In this book Amy Tan tells the story that of her [...]
