This charming memoir tells Oanh’s story of her family’s journey from Vietnam to Texas. She starts with her life back in Vietnam as a child running along monkey bridges in an orchard in the Mekong Delta, where her family was exiled after the war. Her family has some unsuccessful attempts to get out of Vietnam, but like other “boat people” they eventually succeed. She explains the immigration process back then through the eyes of a child, a stark contrast to the process today and the […]
Biography/Memoir
Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind.
Educated is the memoir of Tara Westover who, despite being in her early thirties, really does have a story to tell. My mother read this in her book group this past fall and raved about it to me, so much so that I bought it immediately on my kindle. I started reading it about week ago, and was immediately mesmerized. The prose in this book is compelling and hypnotically readable. I’ve been sitting on this book for a week trying to figure out how to […]
Well, when you put it that way, I too am Afraid of Men
Book: I’m Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya Series: N/A Medium: Audiobook Dates Read: Jan 10, 2019 Overall Rating: 3.5/5 I had never read anything by this author before, but the author is actually from my hometown so this story had an interesting dynamic for me as I couldn’t say “this would never happen here where I live” cause it had, my home town, in schools and streets that I go on every day. I’m Afraid of Men has a provocative title and fun cover colours, […]
A good starting point for Ripperologists
The Complete and Essential Jack the Ripper by Paul Begg and John Bennett is split into three main parts; the first part deals with the victims, including those who are sometimes dismissed from Ripper canon; the second part deals with the different theories put forward over the years on the identity of Jack the Ripper; the third part deals with the “myth” of Jack – how popular culture has seized upon the eponymous murderer, sometimes in a less than tasteful manner. For me, this book […]