Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness (Penguin, 2011) was the first book I mentioned on my fall reading list. And like the other two books on the list, I finished reading it before the first day of autumn. Oops. Maybe I should have named it a late-summer reading … [Read more...]
Book of the week: Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War
Last week when I was on vacation in Vancouver, I read four memoirs. So from that standpoint alone, it was a fantastic getaway.The first book I read was Deb Olin Unferth's Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War (Henry Holt, 2011). Unferth left university … [Read more...]
A glimpse of Vancouver
In my little absence from blogging, I've been to Vancouver and back. What a great getaway. It wasn't my first visit there, but considering the previous time was 24 years ago, I wasn't exactly returning to familiar territory. I love comparing this postcard I sent to my maternal … [Read more...]
Where are the lanterns?
Today is one of my favorite holidays--the Mid-Autumn Festival or Moon Festival. Yesterday I took my kids to Chinatown in Chicago so we could buy mooncakes, the traditional pastry enjoyed on this holiday across the Chinese diaspora.But my favorite thing about this holiday … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Heart of the City
Earlier this year I read My Father's Paradise (Algonquin, 2008) Ariel Sabar's thrilling memoir of his Jewish Kurdish Iraqi father. As Sabar writes in his next book, Heart of the City (DeCapo, 2011), My Father's Paradise is as much a tribute to his father as Heart of the City is … [Read more...]
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