Archive for October, 2006
book review: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie
2 Comments Published by moira October 2nd, 2006 in Book reviews, Diary, ImportMostly this is a book about loving books. Two boys are removed from their city lives to be re-educated in the mountains during the Cultural Revolution in China. They get into mischief and both fall in love with a seamstress, whom they woo with a secret stash of stolen Western novels. This novel is moving […]
book review: The Sixteen Pleasures, by Robert Hellenga
0 Comments Published by moira October 1st, 2006 in Book reviews, Diary, ImportI happened to choose a great follow-up book to the Birth of Venus. This one follows a twenty-something American woman traveling to Florence to repair and preserve what remains of the great libraries after the 1960’s floods. She escapes a boring life in Chicago, but struggles to figure out the alternative as she gets to […]
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