|
Share Last night I stayed up late to finish Anna Funder’s debut novel, All That I Am (Harper, 2012), even though the rest of my family was sound asleep upstairs. I couldn’t put the book down and ploughed through it in three days, averaging 130 pages a day. Funder’s novel, based on real characters and true [...] Share After much anticipation, I finally received and read Tim Luard‘s fabulous Escape from Hong Kong: Admiral Chan Chak’s Christmas Day Dash, 1941 (Hong Kong University Press, 2012). And boy did it not disappoint. This has to be one of the most exciting wartime escape stories–and probably the most underreported one. To start, the cast of [...] Share Yesterday I took my two little ones up to Chicago for lunch at the Peninsula Hotel. There we met my two sisters-in-law in what’s become an annual tradition over the last five years. I like the Peninsula not so much because it’s a fancy hotel, but because it reminds me of the original Peninsula in [...] Share Bukhara I heard from my mom yesterday, both on e-mail and Facebook. She’s been e-mailing here and there since she set off for the old Silk Road a couple weeks ago, but it was the first time she’d Facebooked from Central Asia. This is what she wrote from Bukhara, Uzbekistan: Spent our last day [...] Share The Orientalist Twelve years ago I read an article in The New Yorker about 1930s writer Essad Bey, aka Kurban Said. What stayed with me all these years was that Tom Reiss, the author of the article, revealed that Bey/Said was in fact a Russian Jew named Lev Nussimbaum. Reiss expanded the article into [...] |
|
|
Copyright © 2012 Susan Blumberg-Kason - All Rights Reserved |
|
Follow Me!