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Nickname: litr8r
Location: Globetrotter--currently in the Windy City
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I have a Ph.D. in Modern American Literature and an M.A. in Advanced Writing. My Ph.D. thesis is "All the Sad Young Women: A Feminist New Economic Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Debutante-Flappers. I've recently returned to the US after living in Shanghai for two and a half years. While I was in Shanghai, I wrote reviews on China-related books for an expat magazine. I also wrote articles on C… Read moreI have a Ph.D. in Modern American Literature and an M.A. in Advanced Writing. My Ph.D. thesis is "All the Sad Young Women: A Feminist New Economic Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Debutante-Flappers.
I've recently returned to the US after living in Shanghai for two and a half years. While I was in Shanghai, I wrote reviews on China-related books for an expat magazine. I also wrote articles on Chinese culture and history. It was great! I'm glad to be back in the USA for new adventures and to hang out in awesome libraries where there are thousands of book....all in English!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Tours of Shanghai's former Jewish Ghettoes are popular, and the fact they are offered gives you a sense of the importance of the Jews' contributions to the city's past. For those who want to delve deeper and who want the stories behind the stories told and the buildings seen on the tours, there is Rena Krasno's Strangers Always.
Krasno was born in Shanghai in 1923 to stateless Russian Jewish parents. Krasno lived there her entire life until expats were forced out of China in 1945. The author includes detailed, yet concise, background information--including newspaper articles and some Japanese propaganda pieces--about issues that affected her daily life during this era and her… Read more
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Delores Price is possibly the quintessential heroine of the 21st century. She's Come Undone might become the Great Gatsby of our generation.
In Lamb's masterful hands, we learn how Delores' life unravels, bottoms out, evens out, and then, finally watch as all the damage is "undone." We suffer through the details of her painful descent into her own private hell, then experience her unusual, sad, and touching experiences while in a mental institution. We wait anxiously during her recovery phase and hold our breath during her stressful college years. We cheer as she begins to gather strength, until finally, she achieves self-realization. Delores is a kind of modern-day… Read more
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
NOTE: I have been living in China for 2 1/2 years. Just returned to the US in January 2008. So, when I wrote the review below, I did NOT know that the book was in fact fiction or that there had been a whole flap about it on Oprah.
A Million Little Pieces is the incredible memoir of James Frey's alcohol and drug addition and recovery. In a wealth of horrific detail, Frey describes the insatiable and overpowering physical urges he felt. Even when throwing up blood seven times a day, peeing blood, and pooping blood, he was powerless to stop. Only when he is severely injured on a fire escape and plunked onto a plane by a friend does he arrive, still unwillingly, at the world's… Read more
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