When I lived in Hong Kong, I always got a kick out of taking friends and family to Chungking Mansions for the first time. You should have seen the looks in their eyes when we strolled over to the elevators in the C block. They must have thought I'd gone mad in Hong Kong, and that … [Read more...]
Book of the week–All the Flowers in Shanghai
To get into the spirit of the 100th anniversary of Double 10, I thought I'd read a book set during the early years of the Republic. And what better period than 1930s Shanghai?Duncan Jepson's debut novel, All the Flowers in Shanghai (William Morrow, 2011), seemed like a good … [Read more...]
Book of the week–They Only Eat Their Husbands
Last week I finally picked up Cara Lopez Lee's travel memoir, They Only Eat their Husbands (Ghost Road Press, 2011) and wonder what took me so long. I was most impressed by Lee's utter and complete honesty, whether about her turbulent family relationships, her dysfunctional … [Read more...]
Book of the week: Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
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...]
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