Category: Asia

September 30, 2011

The Tiger: A true story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vailiant *** (of 4)

One of those intriguing books about an animal I knew surprisingly little of and a part of the world, eastern Siberia, about which I was...

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August 26, 2011

Matterhorn by Carl Marlantes **** (of 4)

On the face of it this is the retelling of the life and senseless destruction of a group of marines in the Vietnam War, but,...

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January 26, 2011

The Things they Carried by Tim O’Brien *** (of 4)

A series of related stories about the life of U.S. soldiers trying to get by during the grind of the Vietnam War. O’Brien wavers across...

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December 25, 2010

Peony in Love by Lisa See * (of 4)

Hard to believe this sold as many copies as it did. The veil over this novel, that belongs on the mass market Romance shelf with...

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November 23, 2010

The Tenth Parallel by Eliza Griswold ** (of 4)

Griswold travels the around the globe hanging out approximately 10 degrees north of the equator. In Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines it’s...

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July 16, 2010

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick **** (of 4)

I turned pages as fast as I could shaking my head in disbelief with each new revelation. North Korea is the last totalitarian communist dictatorship...

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July 15, 2010

Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian

Nobel Prize in Literature

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July 14, 2010

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

Recommended by Junot Diaz, author of Oscar Wao.

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July 14, 2010

Bangkok Haunts by John Burdett **** ( of 4)

It’s difficult to write a series of detective stories with the same cop in the same location and not get stale. Burdett, now writing book...

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July 14, 2010

Bangkok Tatoo by John Burdett *** (of 4)

This is the second in Burdett’s series starring a devout Buddhist cop whose boss is corrupt and whose mother runs a successful whorehouse for aging...

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