A quote came across my desk today which went roughly like this: "I was given a cactus for a gift and in less than a week it had died. I thought damn it... I'm even less nurturing than a desert. "
You know who you are. I love you.
~L
Jung Chang: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
As one reviewer says " Of all the personal histories to have emerged out of China's twentieth-century nightmare, Wild Swans is the most deeply thoughtful...
Takes the lives of three women, beginning with her grandmother who was a concubine, and her mother who grew up during Mao's cultural revolution to her life with a foot in China and a foot in the US.
(****)
Lisa See: Shanghai Girls: A Novel
For a person who has been researching chinese history in Globe, this book offers such a human insight into what it was really like to grow up Chinese - first in Shanghai before it was overrun by the Japanese - and then in LA Chinatown. I loved the book. It is a good read. And educational - if you into that. (****)
Sara Davidson: Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives?
(*****)
Michael J. Varhola: Shipwrecks and Lost Treasures: Great Lakes: Legends and Lore, Pirates and More!
(****)
Jeannette Ferrary: Good Day for Soup: Over 200 Recipes for Any Occasion
(*****)
Pauline W. Chen: Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
(*****)
Al Ries: Focus: The Future of Your Company Depends on It (Collins Business Essentials)
(****)
Winifred Gallagher: House Thinking: A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live
Living well in our homes is a matter of thinking more about how we like to live...what makes us happy - than about how it LOOKS. This leads to all sorts of paradigm shifts when designing a living space... (***)
Susan M. Love: Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book:4th Edition 2005
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Thank you, my dear Linda. And I love you right back.
Posted by: susan handa | June 14, 2009 at 01:34 PM