by Amy Tan
While I do understand the feeling that many readers may share that a particular writer should stick with "her" characters, "her" plot lines and should never stray, I can certainly understand why a writer would want to stretch beyond her boundaries. Or his boundaries, as the case may be.Writing is as...
As fun as this was to read, being part travelogue, part ghost story and part study of Americans in a strange land, I wasn't as hooked or charmed with this story as I have been with many of her others.
couldn't get into it
Soo laaangweilig gäähhhn
A bit outside Tan's usual scope. Not bad, but not great, either.
While not Tan's best, this was an enjoyable and relatively quick read. The narrator is the ghost of a woman who died shortly before she was to have lead a tour group to Burma. The group decides to go anyway but immediately begins changing her itinerary. The ghost follows them as their deviations put...
Beautifully written~it makes you feel like you are actually in Burma with the characters.
I admit that when I first started reading the book I was not completely sure if it was based off fact or if it was a complete work of fiction. I later found out, after some online searching that it is completely fiction. I did in the process learn some cool facts about Burma. Over all I really liked...
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