I remember how much I loved Snow Flower and the Secret Fan so was not surprised at how much I enjoyed this story. The three women, Ruby, Helen and Grace, are so very different from each other. I like that each has chapters told from their perspective so that you get to understand their backgro...
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See is a complex novel dealing with the relationship between sisters Pearl Chin (21 years old) and her younger sister May in 1937 Shanghai. The sisters are quite different. May is more calm and reserved while Pearl is often obstinate and strong-willed. Both young ladies are...
This book was so forgettable to me that after finishing it on Monday, I realized that I had neglected to enter it into Goodreads and when I opened up the App to do so, couldn't remember what I had read, who the author was, or anything about the book. When I read the book, I found I was disappoin...
There's definitely something to be said for reading a book all the way through in one sitting (I read this for Dewey's 24-hour Readathon). You get more absorbed, your mind more focused, like a movie-watching experience (especially one in the cinema): a highly cohesive, tight story-telling experie...
Posted originally on Cook and Books I’ve read a Lisa See novel before, and I will say that Flower Net is much different than I had thought. I wanted to read this novel as a nice break from the unexpected, and being familiar with See’s work I thought this was the perfect opportunity. Flower Ne...
When David Stark is offered a job in a private firm that would allow him to be reunited with Liu Hulan, his lover, in China he takes it without questioning too deep. Meanwhile Hulan is asked by an old friend to look into Miaoshan's, her only child, death. The two of them meet from opposite sides ...
بعدَ أن انتهيت من قراءة هذه الرواية ، لا أعرف كيف أشعر ،ولا كيف أشرح أحداثها ولا حتى كيف أصيغ عبارات هذه المراجعة ..مع التركيز على الأخيرة !منحت الرواية خمس نجمات .. (أربع للكاتبة والقصة والفكرة ككل و أوبرا حديقة الفاوانيا - ونجمة للترجمة الجميلة جداً و المثالية والخالية من الأخطاء )تدور هذه الر...