Reading Li's memoir was a unique experience, or perhaps one so rare I can't remember the last time I had it. It challenged me to think not only about her as a writer and reader, but about myself as a writer and reader. I highlighted tons of passages, brief and long. I read the book slowly because I ...
I would have never read this book had it not been a book for club book and I know I wouldn’t have finished this novel had it not been for book club. This book was different. I couldn’t get a firm grip on what was happening in the novel as I read it and it frustrated me. I couldn’t follow the storyli...
To understand Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li, you have to understand the context in which it came to be written. I struggle with how to rate this book. On the one hand, I have enormous respect for the author's struggle with mental health. On the other hand, the boo...
Written for and published on a Croatian web portal: www.citajme.com „Bili su usamljeni i tužni ljudi, sve troje, i neće si uzajamno umanjiti tugu, ali mogu, vrlo pažljivo, stvoriti svijet koji će prihvatiti njihovu samoću.“ Rečenica koja je uzeta iz pripovijetke „Zlatni dečko, smaragdna djev...
Death would be kinder than solitude. I loved Yiyun Li's previous book, The Vagrants (5 stars), but I just didn't click with The Kindness of Solitude in the same way. I found this latest book to be a much denser read, with too much philosophising for my taste. It was also billed as a mystery aroun...
This book was on one of those “Best Books to Read This Year” lists, so of course I added it to my TBR pile. In the summary and reviews, it is described as “magnificent”, “brilliantly written”, and “a breathtaking page-turner”. So when I saw it was available on NetGalley, I was thrilled. Then, I star...
Title: Kinder than Solitude Who wrote it? Yiyun Li, MacArthur Fellow and PEN/Hemingway Award-winner Plot in a Box: Alternating between past and present, China and America, an omniscient narrator traces the lives of three childhood friends. Invent a new title for this book: The Tang Dyn...
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Tysiąc lat dobrych modlitw to zbiór opowiadań, których akcja dzieje się w Chinach w czasach ostatnich przemian. Jeżeli ktoś lubi wesołe historie może sobie śmiało odpuścić Tysiąc lat. Jest takie przysłowie chińskie zacytowane w jednym z opowiadań: "Zły los zawsze wybiera dobrego człowieka". I tak je...
This is an 80 page novella and 8 short stories, all concerning lonely people, and mostly set in present day China.The final line of the book, and of the eponymous story, sums them all up, "They were lonely and sad people... and they would not make one another less sad, but they could, with great car...
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