so-soRead this for book club… important read, but felt like it wasn‘t interesting enough for such heavy topics.
so-soRead this for book club… important read, but felt like it wasn‘t interesting enough for such heavy topics.
pickBook club read. Based on a real woman from 1500s China. A doctor, wife, and mother. Lady Tan kept a diary of her patients and treatments which See used to create this fictional story. This novel is female-centric—Tan‘s grandmother was a physician and passed the knowledge on to her. Shocking how male doctors were to preserve their female patients‘ modesty at all costs—“examining” them behind a screen and communicating only with her male chaperone.
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We went to Barnes & Noble for my birthday today. I‘m pretty happy with my purchases.
so-so#SpringSkies Day 19: #Fall in title. My handwritten book log for our #DecolonizeBookshelves2022 reading theme. There were striking themes that fit into the decolonize nature of our reading theme, especially the portrayal of biracial characters who do not seem to fit in anywhere, forever outsiders across their two cultural backgrounds. Full review here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-ofx
This week‘s library haul, plus the changing-face opera doll I did indeed go back to buy on Monday. They‘d already sold one, so I‘m glad I stopped in! The current face is Bao-yu; the others are Dai-yu, Bao-chai, Wang Xi-feng, Shi Xiang-yun, and Grandma Liu (with thanks to my phone‘s built-in translation function, since the box is in Mandarin). I‘m kind of obsessed with it, and I was delighted to learn opera dolls are a whole genre of collectible!
bailedI‘m sad to say I just couldn‘t connect with this book at all. I was bored and kept trying to push through but gave up at 35%.
Somebody donated a bunch of changing-face opera figures to the thrift store and I maybe got way too excited when I realized some of them were from A DREAM OF THE RED MANSION (also called THE RED CHAMBER, or THE STORY OF THE STONE in English), which is my project book for this year! I didn‘t buy one but now I kinda wish I had. Maybe there‘ll be some left next time.
pickThis is quite good. The author takes a historical fact and writes a story around it. It's like an adult version of Stacey Lee. It isn't cheerful, but I recommend it anyway. Read for my IRL book club.
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