I enjoy Amy Tan’s books very much. She writes about the Chinese American experience. In this book, as with most of them, I enjoyed the parts that took place in China best. This book chronicles one woman’s quest to understand her difficult mother.

Classic fantasy trilogy recommended by Rui, Ash, and a girl I talked to at the streetcar stop. Rui lent me his copies of the books and I think I finished all of them in about a week. A really good set of books to read when you get that feeling like you haven’t read a really *good* book in a while, and you start doubting whether you will ever enjoy reading again. (Also recommended for curing a reading slump: Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series.)