Today I took my kids to the Chicago Peninsula to pick up our mooncake order. It was the first time I've been in the general vicinity of the Pen since the Mid-Autumn Festival last week. But the Pen was taking orders for pick-up through tomorrow, so we got there just in … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Evergreen
I have to admit that I first heard of Rebecca Rasmussen's new novel, Evergreen (Knopf, 2014) when I went to check out my own book. But I'm so glad I learned about it and read it. What a story.The book is set in northern Minnesota and takes place during much of the twentieth … [Read more...]
Friday evening with Rachel DeWoskin
Tonight I braved the elements to attend a reading for one of my favorite authors. I first learned of Rachel DeWoskin when she wrote her ground-breaking China memoir, Foreign Babes in Beijing (Norton, 2005) and have loved all her subsequent books.She has a new novel titled … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
One more photo from the stack I rediscovered last weekend. My mom took this photo of me snapping a shot of the Batu Caves in Malaysia, near Kuala Lumpur.Although I think we were both looking forward to the Indonesia part of that trip (can you say Bali?), we just loved … [Read more...]
Amy Sonnichsen
Amy Sonnichsen isn't just the author of the forthcoming middle grade novel in verse, Red Butterfly (Simon & Schuster, 2015). She is also the mother of five and a former China expat (she lived in Tianjin for almost a decade). But she also grew up in Hong Kong! How cool is … [Read more...]
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