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Posts from the ‘Asian’ category

The Mountain Whisperer is an excellent foray into traditional and quality Chinese literature. The folk tales and narratives are based on the lives of real people who lived prior to, during, and after Mao’s Cultural Revolution. The afterword explains the book. For readers who are…

The Mountain Whisperer by Jia Pingwa

October 14, 2021

Klingborg’s Thief of Souls is an impressive detective novel set in modern day China. Besides the setting in a small provincial town the size of a hamlet where ordinarily the most serious crime is the theft of chickens, in Thief of Souls Klingborg develops the…

Brian Klingborg’s Thief of Souls – A Review

March 25, 2021

Chinese activist author Ai Wei Wei to publish memoir — See on Flavorwire

Waiting Expectantly

October 17, 2015

Touch the Top of the World recollects Erik Weihenmayer‘s journey of overcoming blindness by climbing among others, Rainier, McKinley, Kilimanjaro, Aconcagua, and the mountain of all-Everest as well as learning to rock climb (El Capitan) and ice climb.  Weihenmayer’s account is also the story of…

Powering by Sheer Faith: Review of Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man’s Journey to Climb Farther Than the Eye Can See

September 12, 2015

Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War by Robert M. Gates is not what I expected. It is not the sensationalist tell-all story of a defense secretary battling two opposing presidential administrations. It is a compelling narrative of issues including: managing the a constant yet…

Review — Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War by Robert M. Gates

September 1, 2015

I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. Jan-Phillip Sendker did not disappoint me. Whispering Shadows is a thriller – murder mystery. A thirty-year old, a Cathay Heavy Metals executive, Michael Owen winds up dead in Shenzhen, China, located across the…

A Novel of Old and New China – Review of Whispering Shadows

August 25, 2015

  As part of my Summer Seasonal Challenge on Goodreads, I have been reading some books that have been on my bookshelf for quite a while. All of them have something in common–victims, villains, and some unusual settings. Ice Blue by Anne Stuart delves into…

Mysteries, Thrillers …. and a Cozy! Review of Ice Blue, Anodyne Necklace, Death in Devil’s Acre, and Eggesecutive Orders

June 28, 2015

Bones of the Master is a biographical-autobiographical account of Crane’s travels with a monk who journeys back to Mongolia in the late 20th century. The monk’s exodus from China, nearly four decades earlier, during the 1960 Mao-ordered destruction of all things religious is but a mere fraction…

Bones of the Master: A Review

June 6, 2015

I found this book during a Friends of the Library Sale. Until now, I had never heard of Myra Roper, a British born Australian educator, and and an expert in China. More information can be found here. China-The Surprising Country is a memoir of her…

China-The Surprising Country by Myra Roper: A Review

May 4, 2015

A while back, I posted a review of When America First Met China, a history of Chinese-American-British trade relations up to where steamships enter the picture. In the book, the author, Eric Jay Dolin talks about the various continents that traders visited in search of…

GUEST COLUMN: Antarctica displays grandeur of the Creator – Rome News-Tribune: Columns

March 26, 2015

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