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...]
Weekend splurge
I feel like I've been off the computer for weeks.My husband traveled to Philadelphia for four days last week, including the weekend. In his absence, I went a little crazy with our new Blu-ray machine and its streaming capabilities. I watched half a dozen movies, some I'd seen … [Read more...]