Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy TanMy rating: 5 of 5 stars Well, it only took two months, but I finished “Saving Fish From Drowning,” the final Amy Tan novel. And one of my favorites. So why did it take me so long to finish reading this a second time? To the point where I…
The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy TanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars “The Bonesetter’s Daughter” is the second to last Amy Tan novel I have yet to re-read, and like “Hundred Secret Senses,” I realized I couldn’t remember a dang thing about this book. “The Joy Luck Club” is all about switching POVs between eight characters,…
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy TanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars As I’m reading all of Amy Tan’s works again, I realized, upon reading all their summaries, that “The Hundred Secret Senses” was the only book I couldn’t remember anything about. (I read all the books around the same time before, so it wasn’t…
The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy TanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars If there’s one thing Amy Tan is comfortable with, it’s the mother-daughter relationship, particularly between Chinese immigrant mothers and their jaded American-born daughters. “The Kitchen God’s Wife” is absolutely no exception. Tan’s sophomore novel, “The Kitchen God’s Wife” follows on the footstep’s of…
The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanMy rating: 5 of 5 stars I was first exposed to Amy Tan when I was a child and the movie “The Joy Luck Club” made its repeated runs on HBO. I found it fascinating from a cinematic point of view, and loved it so much to the point…
All I wanted for Christmas was a Kindle Fire and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. I got both! First, obligatory YAAAAY about another Fairy Boy game that I will not be able to finish before I leave for Japan again. Playing so much Zelda is good for my imagination because it makes me want…