
#SummerSpecial
So many moon-titled books on my shelves! Here are two of my more recent favorites for #MoonDay 🌙🌜🌖
#SummerSpecial
So many moon-titled books on my shelves! Here are two of my more recent favorites for #MoonDay 🌙🌜🌖
#MayStats #sundaybuddyread #nunlit #goldenagecrimeclub #janeandtheexcellentreadalong #ruthgalloway#TheBurren #KarenPirie #MaisieDobbs #HiddenNorfolk #KierandLevettMysteties #DCIRyanMysteries #PDJames #LouisePenny #geneologistmysteries
Heavy on mysteries this month:
13 mysteries: modern, historical, golden age, rereads
2 historical fiction
My third Stacey Lee book read for #SundayBuddyRead & another great story from this Historical YA author. Set around the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, it features 15-year-old Mercy Wong who is trying to get herself & her family out of the poverty of Chinatown by using ideas from a women‘s business book to get into an elite boarding school. Mercy is a great character & I loved her bravery & wit. Lee makes history come to life for both YA & adult ⬇️
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I thank you so much for Sundays they are a gift every week!!!
It‘s my birthday I‘m so thankful for another year of life what a wonderful thing! 🎉🎈🧁
On to LAST NIGHT AT THE TELEGRAPH CLUB 🏳️🌈
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“We are led to fear the wrong things”
Powerful quote. So many in this book but this one seemed so timely!!!
Both of the authors notes so powerful I hope you read them!!
We are reading one of her books next February -The Secret Heart of a note- I have to say I love this author.
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Ba
And
Tom
Woe
But also awe warm fuzzy love ♥️♥️👏🏼👏🏼
And I love that her mom had her hand in it ♥️
This was very lesson filled about love, think the YA crowd will feel it?
We need a tie up nicely 🎈
How did you like the ending ??
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Elodie and friendship ♥️
Kates Gran is the author of the book the book for business minded women by Evelyn Lowry
And then she meets her -how sweet ♥️
All the girls asking to take Mercy in♥️
Too sappy? Personally I‘ve found when kids aren‘t told to be prejudice and meet and help someone different they‘re 99 percent of the time like the book (until these last five years- now othering is out of control.)
Thoughts?
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The cow and the deaf man..a lesson???
White Lady three times 🫥
Strawberry Hill
A bit of fantasy here!!!
What happened to the cow ?!?!?!
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Marcus 🤬🤮
Poor Francesca 😡🤬
Then she rises up!!! ✊🏼
Womens choices of mates. It‘s just so very sad and also scary..
The Headmistress
Well welll wellllllll
“I am a woman of considerable means, not just a woman who is considerably mean…” 👀
Honestly I was howling with laughter!!! I can‘t believe she rescued them!
Thoughts?!
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I did really enjoy the feed 44 people all the nationalities if only we could act this way without crisis!!!!
I loved the authors note on this ♥️
Perfect !
Also I will never look at 4 the same way again!!
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
Happy Sunday I slept in a bit!
Stacey Lee writes riveting historical fiction featuring Asian American characters. This one is centered around a driven, fearless teen growing up in San Francisco‘s Chinatown in 1906 who seeks a quality education. Our #SundayBuddyRead group also read Lee‘s book Luck of the Titanic last year—also fantastic with an equally brave teenaged hero.
Earthquakes, hot air balloons, chocolate, and bossy-cheeked girls, oh my! Glad I could get this historical YA set in the San Francisco of 1906 from the library in physical book form just in time for the May #sundaybuddyread - I was able to flag some of my favorite quotes. I def cried through the last quarter, but Mercy is a generous and kind heroine and this bighearted book is just right for an AAPI YA (& maybe MG?) read.
I‘m ready for the final #sundaybuddyread of May ❤️ this was a delightful and informative YA read about the San Francisco earthquake. It ended on a positive note after a lot of devastation.
I have a long weekend, but since I have a birthday party for my niece on Saturday, I'm going to start now. It's already tomorrow across the pond anyway. 😁
I'm starting at Ch 18 on Outrun the Moon, and since I'm terribly behind, that's my priority. Then I'll start Legends and Lattes and swap them with audio if I can.
#24in4 #readathon @andrew65
#sundaybuddyread #childrensclassicread @thebookhippie
I'm alive, my #litsylove friends!
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD 🥡🥢🥠🥮🌉🌁🏮
See you Sunday !
🥮https://www.thehongkongcookery.com/2023/01/chestnut-birthday-cake.html
Finished our #sundaybuddyread book today. This was my first time reading Stacy Lee and I‘m definitely a fan! She took a pivotal piece of our history, that certainly got glossed over in my education, and really brought it to life with the perfect amount of depth and complexity for a YA audience.
Another solid read from Stacey Lee. Mercy is a teenage Chinese American in San Francisco in 1906. She is a wonderful character, bold, caring, and unwilling to accept the status quo. When she wants something she works to get it, no matter the odds. Things don‘t always workout, but she perseveres. A good YA read that touches on real life experiences and emotions. Read for #sundaybuddyread
My ebook was due back and had someone waiting for it, so no renewal. I had to finish it ahead of our #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD reading schedule. I won‘t spoil anything here. Simply put… I loved it!
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Off to finish!!!
I love Sundays thanks so much for reading along!!!
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What stuck out to you?
The looting was interesting- the army etc ..
Francesca I‘m still a fan !
I‘ve no idea how this wraps up 🤷🏻♀️
I do think this should be taught in depth more in school…
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Elodie
Mercy-I never said you didn‘t have a heart, but it would be nice if it beat every now and then…
SO using this phrase in my future 😅🤣
The butcher
The ring
The fall down the hill
The five dollars 😅
Laughing crying
Elodie‘s mom
How sad…
Will they be friends ?!? Do you like Elodie yet 😅?
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Leeching the teacher 😵💫
Thoughts on the teacher 👀
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The cow!!!!! Her owner 😭😭😭
No different than today..
Expecting the worst of someone just because their skin is different than yours …
I was so gutted… forgive us..
https://www.usgs.gov/publications/san-francisco-cow-did-she-or-didnt-she
https://annetkent.kontribune.com/articles/8959
https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/Did-the-Great-San-Francisco-Earthquake-...
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We assume Tom is safe..
Ba is safe?
Tenting living out in the open
Who would survive?
https://californiahistoricalsociety.org/blog/1906-san-francisco-earthquake-and-f...
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/rare-1906-san-francisco-earthquake-photos...
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Grief : no windows and no doors no escape…
Mercy is hit by the grief but needs to survive by getting food etc- think this will help with her healing? That she couldn‘t just sit with it?
Also that quote🎯
See you tomorrow 🥠🥮🥢🥡🏮
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Food https://www.seriouseats.com/the-best-chinese-sesame-chicken-recipe
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Thoughts so far?
I can‘t wait to read more!!!
Happy Sunday All!
Thanks for reading along with me!!!
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Cocotte for Father Godwin 👀 or Madame Du Lac…
Mercy family dead…😭
Cocotte-prostitute. : a shallow individual baking dish usually with one or two handles. 🤷🏻♀️😅😳
Discuss…
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EARTHQUAKE
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/events/1906calif/18april/
https://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/sf
https://www.loc.gov/item/00694425/
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/the-1906-san-francisco-earthquake
https://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb809nb6tk/?brand=oac4
https://education.asianart.org/resources/1906-san-francisco-earthquake-and-prima...
Just wow…Mercy running for home…
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Francesca …
A friend indeed
I think she‘s my favorite
What did you think about Mercy being outed?!
📸 https://cal170.library.ca.gov/japanese-segregation/
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For every rule, there is a rule breaker. I think it‘s quite rude to call me out like that.
So are you a rule follower or are you a rule breaker?
I would like to say I do not miss middle school-high school and girls politics and meanness … 😵💫
That‘s all
Silence is wisdoms best reply…
The washing
The fight
Oy……thoughts?!
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Number 4 a little info ..
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-28/chinese-superstition-about-th...
https://www.lovetoknow.com/home/design-decor/number-4-meaning-feng-shui
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf13M4MoHS4
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“Isn‘t it unchristian to tell fortunes ?”
Parochial school says you burn for it….
The ruler …
I‘m old so you could be hit when at school especially parochial school … I still remember two kids the male teacher picked on. It broke my heart.
So yikes -thoughts?!?!
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Tom…
We can measure our lives by our pain .
Think he stayed in Chinatown ?
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Elodie can‘t have chocolate!!
How do you like her now?
Her dad was where on her birthday?!👀
And so Elodie is second in command.
How did you like the girls meeting?!
Then she‘s just mean..
SF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHkc83XA2dY
📸1906 Wallis Simpson as a school girl 😂👀🤣
👀 🫧🧺🧺🧺🧺🫧
See you Sunday #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
https://www.showclix.com/event/avachin
Author Ava Chin discusses her new narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming, with historian Maya Jasanoff. Chin wrote the book during her 2017–18 Cullman Center Fellowship. In-person registration for this event is full.
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Live stream option
I already have a handful of books started, so I‘m ripe for starting one more while I hang out in my yard and throw the stick for my pup! #moodreader #sundaybuddyread
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On we read! Happy Sunday! 🥡🥢🥠🥮
I thank ya for Sundays! The best way to end the week or begin whichever way you look at it!
Can‘t help myself👩🏻🍳
https://www.gimmesomeoven.com/fried-rice-recipe/
https://www.delish.com/uk/cooking/recipes/g36979781/chinese-chicken-recipes/
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What do you think of Tom?
Chocolate coins!!
Well what do you think so far?!
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What do you think of the school?
Francesca- I like her
Books over people and Shakespeare ..
What do you think of the students ?
Aspic it haunts us 😂😵💫😅🤷🏻♀️
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls_High_School_(San_Francisco)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/aspics-jello-salad
https://www.seriouseats.com/history-of-jell-o-salad
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Lots of little words of wisdom in here - your favourite? Mine is I can row my own boat without wind. ✊🏼😅🤣
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Ma predicting her death and telling Mercy?!
“It‘s like the moon- we can see it differently by climbing a mountain - but we can not outrun it. As it should be.” Outrun the Moon.
Thoughts?
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White ghosts-
Suspicious of white peoples with good reason -astounding it‘s still true today?!
(I kept saying I hate it here while reading 😵💫)
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD The plague 😬
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_plague_of_1900%E2%80%931904
https://lithub.com/inside-san-franciscos-plague-ravaged-chinatown-c-1900/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/plague-golden-gate-hunting-...
https://www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-743X(14)60858-2/p....
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History of Chinese women US
https://www.historynet.com/chinas-lost-women-in-the-far-west/
https://localnewsmatters.org/2019/05/22/author-julia-lynn-silver-offers-insights...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chinese_Americans_in_San_Francisco
Mercy had a battle that was so stacked against her..