4.5Usually before starting any book I make sure to read the blurb or at least few reviews. But for ‘The Good Earth’ i didn’t even try to read either, which actually turned out to be a plus point for me because if i had read i wouldn’t have picked it up for sure. I picked it on a friend’s recommendat...
80. A HOUSE DIVIDED, BY PEARL S. BUCK (Book 3 of House of Earth)The third and last installment on the House of Earth series. To recap, I liked the first book much better than the second, but I still decided to read the third one for completion’s sake.Synopsis: Wang Yuan, Wang the Tiger’s son, finds ...
59. SONS, BY PEARL S. BUCK (Book 2 of House of Earth)Continuing the trilogy, after The Good Earth, which I quite liked.Synopsis: The book follows the stories of Wang Lung’s children after his death. One becomes a noble landlord, another becomes a rich merchant and the third one becomes a warlord.Ove...
44. THE GOOD EARTH, BY PEARL S. BUCK (Book 1 of House of Earth)Another recommendation from Michelle on Goodreads. I guess this one would count as a “classic”, even though I didn’t know it when I started reading it (I borrowed a digital copy from the library, and they had listed it under “newly acqui...
{February 2nd, 2015} MINI-REVIEW3 stars.“The rich are always afraid.”Showcasing the struggles and hardships that many Chinese and China as a whole overcame. Truly shows the whole difference of being a girl or boy there, and the importance of having a boy over a girl. It's a very interesting perspect...
I loved 'The Good Earth,' when I was a kid. For some reason I never really pursued her other novels - one of those 'always meant to, but never got around to it' things. So - I was quite excited to get this from Goodreads' First Reads program. (Thank You!)Unfortunately, this is not a good book.The in...
He was ashamed to say aloud that he wished the house to look neat on this day. The hole was barely large enough to admit his hand and he thrust it out to feel of the air. A small soft wind blew gently from the east, a wind mild and murmurous and full of rain. It was a good omen. The fields needed ra...
East Wind, West Wind originally titled Winds of Heaven was Pearl S. Buck's first novel published in the United States in 1930. Though it had gone through many earlier rejections, the acceptance to publish eventually came down to one final vote by Richard Walsh, the president of the publishing compan...
Good and evil mingled in her, but always in heroic dimensions. 3.5 stars. This is the story of Empress Tzu-hsi, who ruled the Manchu dynasty in China for 47 years. In 1852 she was selected as a concubine for the Emperor. She was extremely strong-willed and decided that she would become the Emperor's...
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