bailedI wanted to like this book, but the writing is just bad.
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The Song of the Jade Lily: A Novel | 
bailedI wanted to like this book, but the writing is just bad.
pickI do like historical fiction. This, as in most WWII novels deals with hardships, resilience, heartbreak, love, and friendship. Shanghai was a different setting.
pickA Jewish refugee in Shanghai during wwii. An interesting look at a part of the war that is not usually focused on. Plus the normal historical fiction sort of drama.
🧳 🕰 Time travel
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🏃🏻♀️👍🏻📚Running a 5K, then some volunteering. Hopefully some reading in there too. Need to start my #lmpbc #groupN selection for this month.
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Accompanied by crickets
#JuneStats #JuneWrapUp
It's been ages since I did a monthly recap of my reading but June was a good month even with a very busy work schedule.
I signed up for the library summer reading program so I logged my hours on Beanstack & read 44 hours, 14 minutes in June & finished 10 books! 🎉8 print/2 audio, one so-so & the rest 4⭐️picks of mostly lighter fiction for summer.
I also read 44% of East of Eden for the #EoE #buddyread with @Cinfhen 🤓🤗
pickI read a lot of WWII books but I'd not read one set in Shanghai. Told from the perspective of a Romy, a young Jewish girl/woman fleeing with her parents from Vienna. (Shanghai accepted over 20,000 refugees during the war.) Present-day Shanghai comes into play when Romy's granddaughter Alexandra takes a job there & looks for information about her adopted mother's family. Full of heartbreak & strength, I had a difficult time putting it down...
My Saturday night's popcorn, Lifetime movie: Pride & Prejudice: Atlanta & some chapters of this WWII historical novel set in Shanghai during the war and in 2016 when a young woman tries to discover her family's hidden history. I'm only about 80 pages in, but so far I am finding it interesting & engrossing.
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pickWish I could give this better than just a “pick“ emoji. I want to be able to choose a “go run right out and get this book“ emoji! This book made my heart break. The story is gorgeous, and painful, and it felt so real. It's about friendship and love, and fighting for all that you love - and living through things that can either make you or break you. I could not put it down, and it definitely got me out of my book slump!
You won‘t want to miss reading THE SONG OF THE JADE LILY.
The cover and the title pull you in immediately, and the story line is heartbreaking, heartwarming, mesmerizing, and educational.
FULL REVIEW HERE:
https://tinyurl.com/y43sm6ax
@WilliamMorrowBooks
so-soThis book reminded me why I can be picky about historical fiction. The story of Jewish refugees in Shanghai during WWII was new to me, but ultimately I would have preferred a non-fiction book. This story felt exploitative. The plot twists were manipulative and disappointing, the violence was excessive bordering on pornographic even given the time period and it‘s 100 pages too long with too much description that didn‘t move the story forward. #ARC
If this book isn‘t in your list of books to read this spring, it needs to be.
THE SONG OF THE JADE LILY is a beautiful, intriguing, historical fiction read with its focus on Shanghai during WWII and Alexandra and Romy‘s family that has a secret kept for many years.
@HarperCollins
1) A tie between Disney World and New Orleans, although I don‘t visit either in the summer because it‘s way too hot! 🥵
2) Ice cream and popsicles🍦
3) The 3 Bs: beach, baseball and bbq 🏖⚾️🌭
4) Iced tea and ice cold beer 🍺
5) My customized Poolside Bags straw tote with embroidered Vonnegut quote, “So it goes”
6) The beach, or anywhere with AC 😅
#SummerSantaSurvey @hermyknee
Got some pretty bookmail while I was gone. This is historical fiction set in Shanghai during World War II which sounds like a interesting twist on fiction set during that era. Thanks @WilliamMorrowBooks !
pickThis book is both a joy to read and difficult to read. It‘s been a long time since a book has moved me to tears but this book did.
So I entered for an ARC giveaway last month and I got 3 books in the mail!!! I haven't bought any physical books in the last 12 months.. coz 1. No money and 2. Lack of space
And I've never gotten/read ARC's before... 👀👀👀👀 📚 📚 📚
I've tagged one of the books. . The other two I received are: Little Gods by Jenny Ackland and Lovesome by Sally Altman
#excited #australianauthors #allenandunwin
pick(First time reading a proof.) As a work of historical fiction this would have been perfect for me, and i loved it regardless but it's not something I'd usually read. The parallel stories are still brilliant, as both grandmother and granddaughter learn life lessons in their respective times. The effects of war are also apparent, both during the midst of wartime and in later generations.
