After reading a couple of Eileen Chang novels and short story collections, I wanted to learn more about this intriguing author. So last week I headed to my public library and checked out her collection of essays, Written on Water (Columbia University Press, 2007).Chang wrote … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Dreaming in Chinese
Yesterday I posted something about my early days of learning Mandarin. I often think back to those days. And that was certainly the case when I read Deborah Fallows' new narrative, Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language (Walker & Company, 2010) … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Love in a Fallen City
After I finished The Rice Sprout Song last week, I moved on to Eileen Chang's Love in a Fallen City (New York Review Books, 2006), a collection of short stories and novellas that take place in Shanghai and Hong Kong in the 1930s and early 1940s.I usually try to read a book … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Rice Sprout Song
Last week I came across a nice article in the NYTimes about Eileen Chang and the writings she left behind at her death. This article seemed especially timely because I was in the middle of reading Chang's novel, The Rice Sprout Song (University of California Press, … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Lost Lustre
After reading Bill Clegg's spellbinding memoir, Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, I craved another memoir about New York. And as luck would have it, I won in a GoodReads raffle Josh Karlen's new memoir, Lost Lustre (Tatra Press, 2010). And that's what I read last … [Read more...]
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