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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
Maybe I just don't get it. I tried reading this twenty years ago and couldn't get past a few pages. It was the same experience this time around, but I pressed on until I finished it. I can understand why it was written as it was, but I had a hard time with everything that was 'talk-story.' The rest was okay.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
funny
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
I could not get into this as much as I hoped I would. I found it confusing even though I enjoyed the old Chinese stories. I feel like I need someone to teach this book to me!
I liked this one. It's difficult, emotionally, but fascinating as well. The voice of the author is true. I would not have wanted to live her life.
emotional
mysterious
reflective
This is a classic.
I was attracted to this book - the lovely smooth pink cover - but particularly the crane. A symbol of luck.
I loved this book. I love that part of it is about Fu Mu Lan (Yep! Mulan!) but it is also about what it is like to be a child of immigrants whose parents bring with them one culture and the challenges for the children of understanding the other host culture in context.of their parents lives.
I was attracted to this book - the lovely smooth pink cover - but particularly the crane. A symbol of luck.
I loved this book. I love that part of it is about Fu Mu Lan (Yep! Mulan!) but it is also about what it is like to be a child of immigrants whose parents bring with them one culture and the challenges for the children of understanding the other host culture in context.of their parents lives.
Another "reread for teaching" book. I think I read this in my late high school career and possibly for a class in college, but I remember being really challenged and confused by its narrative structure. What was real? What was fantasy? What was the point?
This time around, I loved it--the various layers of the story were fascinating and absorbing, presenting different realities: some of them familiar to me from my own experience, from stories friends told me, from other stories of assimilation, struggle, and identity; some strange and unsettling. I am really looking forward to using this novel with my AP class this year! I look forward to reading critical essays about it and Kingston's work in general as well.
Highly recommended.
This time around, I loved it--the various layers of the story were fascinating and absorbing, presenting different realities: some of them familiar to me from my own experience, from stories friends told me, from other stories of assimilation, struggle, and identity; some strange and unsettling. I am really looking forward to using this novel with my AP class this year! I look forward to reading critical essays about it and Kingston's work in general as well.
Highly recommended.
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
this was a great memoir… all of the stories flowed so well together into one solid piece
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
Minor: Bullying