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Below isThe Joy Luck Clubauthor Amy Tans list.
Her memoirWhere the Past Beginsis out in paperback now.
When I returned home from Hawaii, I started to write the stories that would becomeThe Joy Luck Club.
To understand ravens, Heinrich becomes the raven.
I remember reading this memoir some 20 years ago and thinking I had found a long-lost childhood friend.
What emerges in memory is a meditation on truth found in love and self-knowledge.
Davis is the ultimate prose stylist and this collection of short fiction proved addictive on many a late night.
Her narrators are quirky, self-conscious, and sometimes humorously obsessive.
Many of the stories are only a page or two long.
The breathtaking beauty of Alameddines prose alone makes this compulsive reading.
She also gives advice on not dyeing your hair blue in bad light.
I felt those ghosts and went looking for mine.
This novel is cited by many of my author friends as the best in the English language.
(I wont.)
The narrator of this story has been bestowed with telepathic powers by virtue of the time of his birth.
This proves useful in recounting his life, which is coincidentally wrapped around historical events in India.
Ive read this book several times.
As a writer, I am in awe of Marquezs genius.
I would count this as the most romantic novel Ive read.
It is the family legend of undying love we all wish we had.
Mary Olivers poems give us solace and perspective.
They provide the companionship of like-minds and thus have the power to instantly remove loneliness.
When you read the last line of each poem, youll understand.
It will take your breath away.
