If you want to read/understand about China without it being 'helped' (all pun intended towards "The Help") along by strange, stilted "orientalist" notions of how it used to be in the old times, this would NOT be the book/series to read.As an articulate asian (from Singapore), it pains me to read suc...
The story of May and Pearl continues through their daughter, Joy. After just escaping the Japanese invasion of China, they must now save Joy from the communist revolution in China. Joy is living the American Dream and while away in college becomes part of a communist revolutionary movement that i...
I was really hoping that this book would give me a better opinion of Joy...it didn't. I still find her to be a naive, impulsive, insensitive, self-centered, idealistic creaton...I think I actually like her less in this book than I did the first book. I found myself really getting angry at her charac...
This book was highly anticipated by me as I fell in love with Lisa See several years ago when I read Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. Since then I have collected all of her books, and though I have yet to read some of them, I have loved all of the ones that I have read. The most recent one to be re...
I won an ARC of this book in a Goodreads giveaway. I hadn't read the first book in this series, Shanghai Girls, but the set-up was explained well in a brief prologue and I never felt confused about anything. Dreams of Joy has a clear, simple and punchy style. At the start of the novel, I found the c...
If my mother would have read this book, firstly, she would scoff at Joy for being an ignorant fool and then latched her eyes onto me sternly saying, "See, this is what happens when you do not listen to your mother!" But then, if we do listen to our mothers all the time, how would we craft our own e...
This one turned out to be very good, very intense and very satisfying. Pearl, May and Joy's stories are continued from Shanghai Girls, with quite a few twists and turns. Chilling, but probably accurate look, at Communist China in the late 1950's and the Great Leap Forward. Some scenes are very grim ...
(Copied from my blog A Satisfying Affair)(Note: This review contains spoilers for Shanghai Girls by Lisa See. It would be difficult to avoid Shanghai Girls spoilers here, as Dreams of Joy is a sequel to that book, but I promise Dreams of Joy will not be spoiled here.) I have been a fan of Lisa See...
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