This book is long. This book is dense. Try to just breezily rush through this and you will miss things. This book is also smart and sarcastic and snarky and everything else I love. Indelbed is adorable. He’s from the […]
Little Soldiers
The author is the first generation American daughter of Chinese immigrants. She had a hard time reconciling her parents’ attitude toward education with her American school experiences. Now she and her American husband moved to Shanghai just in time for […]
A House Without Windows
“My full height, my beloved husband never did see Because the fool dared turn his back on me.” This is a heartbreaking story about women’s lives in Afghanistan. In this book women feel more free and open in prison than […]
The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds
This is an historical fiction novel set between the 1870s and the 1940s in Malaysia.  In this area of Malaysia at the time it was common for people to be of mixed ethnic heritage. But now the British have […]
The Third Son
This synopsis sort of made me cringe. I’ve read the whole “my brother is marrying the girl I want” story so many times. I’m over it. This isn’t that though. There was a delightful change. Saburo gets the girl. […]
Where Am I Reading in Africa and Asia?
I’m going to answer this question with some of the books that I’ve read since the last readathon in October 2014. These just the Adult Fiction books not about food because Nonfiction and YA and food books all have their […]
