Perhaps I’m a bit late to the party but I just finished reading Lisa See’s Shanghai Girls last week. I admit I wasn’t too sure about it because the cover, while gorgeous, was so pretty I figured it was going to be a “too pretty”. I should have known better. See wonderfully illuminates the plight […]
My book group met this weekend on the roof of a friend’s apartment building for an Italian themed picnic dinner to go along with our Italian themed book. Since the book wasn’t Random House (ahem) I will refrain from naming it, however, this weekend’s meeting did remind me that I’ve been wanting to share with […]
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I just finished reading the ARE of Lisa See’s wonderful new novel Shanghai Girls. I was a fan of both Snowflower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love, but I thought her new book blew them away. It is more contemporary, set in 1930s Los Angeles and focuses on the relationship between two sisters […]
