In the world of memoirs, this one was a little difficult for me to rate. I was confused for a decent portion of it, not sure whether this was fiction or nonfiction at times. I had chosen it as part of the Read Harder Challenge for this year, task 17: read a classic by a woman of color. I suppose I c...
What drew me to this book was a description of the way the author weaves Chinese folklore into her own story; although I am not very familiar with Chinese mythology, I do appreciate writing that makes use of the universal truth of story, and that is precisely what this book does.Although the book is...
The Daily Poet is a marvelous set of prompts and ideas for writing -- one for each day of the year! What I love the most about reading these poetic prompts are the little bits of knowledge and insight that open creative doors for me. I learned little things -- little insightful fun things -- about S...
The Swordswoman of Words 'The Woman Warrior' is Maxine Hong Kingston's own story of growing up Chinese-American, an irreconcilable position for her as the two cultures would seemingly clash, unable to provide her with a stable sense of identity. She grew up confused by the ideas and behavior of he...
Read from August 03, 2012 to August 08, 2013 — I own a copy This is a book I bought ages ago, and had dipped in and sampled parts of it over time. But that meant that I'd never actually finished the whole thing, cover to cover. So this time through I started from the beginning and went through it ...
Painfully bad. Obscenely, aggressively naive.I persevered until: I felt love palpable and saw love manifest -- it's pink. ... I could open my arms wide and gather up great big pink balls of Peace and hurl them east toward Iraq... also threw pink balls of Peace to the Iraqi children, to protect them....
How could I not love a book titled The Woman Warrior? I read this for a women's literature class in college, probably around 1995. It's part memoir, part folklore -- weaving together stories from Kingston's family, from ancient China, and from her life into a larger narrative about what the lives of...
How odd that Maxine Hong Kingston writes, on the subject of the crippling self-consciousness that left her silent in American schools as a child, and still remains, "A dumbness—a shame—still cracks my voice in two....It spoils my day with self-disgust when I hear my broken voice come skittering out ...
in the tradition of the "long poem" (h.d., pound, eliot, wc williams) 'tho critics ( " reviewers " ) may never make the association, this one is an epic and a memoir,to be read aloud by candlelight ... to ones you love ( including yourself ).i laughed a dozen times and wept several.each time i thoug...
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