A book of the depressing memories of Adeline as she embrace adversity in her younger days. The moment she was born her mother passed away which devastated her and her whole family resulting them labelling her as bad luck. She was often bullied by her other siblings and was once tricked into drinking...
What I liked about the Chinese Cinderella The main character has got to be my favourite character. Reading on how she tries to overcome obstacles in her life and strives to be better in order to attain a sense of belonging causes me to feel sympathy and inspired because of her attitude and ability...
What do I enjoy about this book and what did I learn from it? I have learnt that no matter how hard the situation is, keep thriving to be the best you can be and prove to others who thought negatively of people wrong. I enjoyed this book as the author wrote in detail in her biography about her lif...
This book has make me understood how fortunate i was. Being able to have the love and support from my family and friends, i am truely grateful. But sadly, all these love and support does not seems to be presence on everybody. Ever since i read the book by this amazing and inspiring author, Adeline Y...
An interesting book based on the upbringing of the author, Adeline Yen Mah. Gives insight to life as an unwanted child, but also about how families were affected of the Japanese invasion of China and later on in the book the Chinese civil war. Ending was sour sweet. Very enjoyable book overall.
I liked this book a whole lot more until the last fifty-or-so pages. At that point, it devolved into a laundry list of perceived slights, petty bickering, and old grudges. The narrator, Adeline, went from being winningly naive about her family to being determinedly oblivious, to the point that it ma...
My knowledge of Chinese history is haphazardly sketched, a combination of what I learned in school, some frantic Google searches, and books. When I was in 10th grade, I was forced to memorize all major Chinese dynasties in order. As I'd grown up somehow thinking that they numbered in the thirties an...
It was a very sad book. With the tragic event of her mother dying a few days after her birth, Adeline's start to life was already destined to be doomed. With only her Aunt Baba giving attention to her, Adeline is already a very depressed child. Later on , Her Nai Nai dies and this was someone close ...
This review was first posted on amazon on June 3, 2003. I first read this book when I was ten years old. I still remember being transported from my Boise, Idaho sunroom, circa summer vacation 1976, back to the foggy gaslit streets of Victorian London. I don't believe that I moved off that sunroom ...
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