Comments for BookDragon http://bookdragon.si.edu Books for the Multi-Culti Reader Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:19:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Naoko by Keigo Higashino, translated by Kerim Yasar by The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura, translated by Satoko Izumo and Stephen Coates | BookDragon http://bookdragon.si.edu/2004/10/08/naoko-by-keigo-higashino-translated-by-kerim-yasar/#comment-53625 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:19:56 +0000 http://bookdragon.si.edu/?p=4882#comment-53625 [...] writers Miyuki Miyabe (Shadow Family), Natsuo Kirino (Out, Grotesque), and Keigo Higashino (Naoko, The Devotion of Suspect X), will especially enjoy discovering [...]

]]> Comment on Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch by Calla - BookDragon’s awesome review of Last Airlift http://bookdragon.si.edu/2012/02/21/last-airlift-a-vietnamese-orphans-rescue-from-war-by-marsha-forchuk-skrypuch/#comment-53599 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:10:27 +0000 http://bookdragon.si.edu/?p=16635#comment-53599 [...] Check it out here. [...]

]]> Comment on Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch by Calla - Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War By Marsha Skrypuch http://bookdragon.si.edu/2012/02/21/last-airlift-a-vietnamese-orphans-rescue-from-war-by-marsha-forchuk-skrypuch/#comment-53598 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:05:53 +0000 http://bookdragon.si.edu/?p=16635#comment-53598 [...] “Skrypuch tells the story of the last Canadian airlift through the memories of one child, Son Thi Anh Tuyet. Nearly 8 years old, the sad-eyed girl on the cover had lived nearly all her life in a Catholic orphanage. With no warning, she and a number of the institution babies were taken away, placed on an airplane and flown to a new world. Tuyet’s memories provide poignant, specific details….In an afterword, the author describes her research, including personal interviews and newspaper accounts from the time. But Tuyet’s experience is her focus. It personalizes the babylift without sensationalizing it….Immediate and compelling, this moving refugee story deserves a wide audience.” Kirkus, Feb 2012 From BookDragon: [...]

]]> Comment on Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch by Marsha J. Skrypuch http://bookdragon.si.edu/2012/02/21/last-airlift-a-vietnamese-orphans-rescue-from-war-by-marsha-forchuk-skrypuch/#comment-53597 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:18:13 +0000 http://bookdragon.si.edu/?p=16635#comment-53597 Thank you for the wonderful review!

]]> Comment on Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante by David Ulrich http://bookdragon.si.edu/2012/02/19/turn-of-mind-by-alice-laplante/#comment-53586 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:56:39 +0000 http://bookdragon.si.edu/?p=16487#comment-53586 Jennifer’s best friend Amanda has been murdered. The murderer surgically removed four fingers. Jennifer was a noted hand surgeon before she retired.
Jennifer has Alzheimers. This alone makes for a fascinating reading – did she do it or did she not ? The books is written as a series of enteries in Jennifer’s daily journal. A journal in which her care-giver and her son and daughter also make entries. These entries are to assist Jennifer’s ‘rememberance’. Jennifer goes back over the events of her marriage, the raising of two children, and her friendship with Amanda. There are many revelations along the way, and always open questions. Definitely keeps one reading ! Well written, well plotted. I couldn’t put it down. Read it one sitting. Just had to know what happened between Jennifer and Amanda. And what happens to Jennifer.

]]> Comment on 32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics by Adrian Tomine by comix http://bookdragon.si.edu/2009/05/05/32-stories-the-complete-optic-nerve-mini-comics-by-adrian-tomine/#comment-53575 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:00:47 +0000 http://bookdragon.si.edu/?p=2294#comment-53575 My friend told me about this site, he was right it is great. Keep up the good work!

]]> Comment on Tropical Fish: Stories Out of Entebbe by Doreen Baingana by SI BookDragon http://bookdragon.si.edu/2012/02/18/tropical-fish-stories-out-of-entebbe-by-doreen-baingana/#comment-53572 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:59:48 +0000 http://bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com/?p=16557#comment-53572 Wow, how lucky were YOU to get to take a class with her! Was that when she was working on her MFA? Or was she already done? And how very small world indeed!

I can’t find any information about any upcoming titles. I found some references to a couple of short stories which may or may not be new (they weren’t in Tropical Fish, but I couldn’t tell if they were written recently or awhile back) online, but nothing more. I hope she’s working on something to publish SOON. No patience!!

]]> Comment on Tropical Fish: Stories Out of Entebbe by Doreen Baingana by Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis http://bookdragon.si.edu/2012/02/18/tropical-fish-stories-out-of-entebbe-by-doreen-baingana/#comment-53483 Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:28:06 +0000 http://bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com/?p=16557#comment-53483 No direct line, and I still haven’t read this collection in toto, but I did, once upon a time as a young undergrad, take a fiction workshop with Doreen at UMD. Her success is much deserved, and the work, even in its early stages, was very powerful and carefully wrought. Happy to see the review, and, like you, wishing for more good things for and from Doreen.

]]> Comment on Out by Natsuo Kirino, translated by Stephen Snyder by The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura, translated by Satoko Izumo and Stephen Coates | BookDragon http://bookdragon.si.edu/2003/08/29/out-by-natsuo-kirino-translated-by-stephen-snyder/#comment-53356 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:18:01 +0000 http://bookdragon.si.edu/?p=3628#comment-53356 [...] already-established-in-translation Japanese writers Miyuki Miyabe (Shadow Family), Natsuo Kirino (Out, Grotesque), and Keigo Higashino (Naoko, The Devotion of Suspect X), will especially enjoy [...]

]]> Comment on Stir It Up by Ramin Ganeshram by Anjelica Alfieri http://bookdragon.si.edu/2012/01/17/stir-it-up-by-ramin-ganeshram/#comment-52665 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:23:22 +0000 http://bookdragon.si.edu/?p=15959#comment-52665 The ability to stir up a winning recipe which is both great to eat as well as look at is a gift. Keep it up Ramin. I think yours is indeed one of the best news websites on this subject on the Internet, which comes straight from the heart.

]]> Comment on Brushing Mom’s Hair by Andrea Cheng, illustrated by Nicole Wong by Wild Rose’s Weaving by Ginger Churchill, illustrated by Nicole Wong | BookDragon http://bookdragon.si.edu/2009/06/10/brushing-moms-hair-by-andrea-cheng-illustrated-by-nicole-wong/#comment-52638 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:46:16 +0000 http://bookdragon.si.edu/?p=2844#comment-52638 [...] Nicole Wong (who also gently captures Andrea Cheng’s Only One Year and Brushing Mom’s Hair, just right) imbues Churchill’s sweet story with winsome whimsy. Wong’s signature [...]

]]> Comment on The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi by The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh | BookDragon http://bookdragon.si.edu/2012/02/08/the-wish-maker-by-ali-sethi/#comment-52489 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:45:54 +0000 http://bookdragon.si.edu/?p=15993#comment-52489 [...] so missed Kusum, Horen, Moyna, and the many others, that I now have Bamji reading Ali Sethi’s The Wish Maker to me. Stay tuned … [...]

]]> Comment on Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men by Leonard Sax by sean http://bookdragon.si.edu/2010/07/30/boys-adrift-the-five-factors-driving-the-growing-epidemic-of-unmotivated-boys-and-underachieving-young-men-by-leonard-sax/#comment-52174 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:28:41 +0000 http://bookdragon.si.edu/?p=9738#comment-52174 His points number 2-4 really hit home with me. I have seen evidence of the effects of these in two of my nephews. One being 22 and the other 14. The amount of time they spent over the years locked in their rooms playing video games has surely had a negative impact. With the advent of playing online with kids all over the world there is no longer a need to go out and spend time with actual friends. In my opinion that is a serious social issue.

]]> Comment on Zen and the Art of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick by Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie and After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick | BookDragon http://bookdragon.si.edu/2009/07/06/zen-and-the-art-of-faking-it-by-jordan-sonnenblick/#comment-52135 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:39:15 +0000 http://bookdragon.si.edu/?p=4548#comment-52135 [...] from both: “When’s his next book coming out?” Thing 1 asks; “Drums and Zen were great; maybe I’ll read another …” Thing 2 ponders. Hope springs [...]

]]> Comment on The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee by Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung | BookDragon http://bookdragon.si.edu/2010/06/10/the-surrendered-by-chang-rae-lee/#comment-51777 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:12:14 +0000 http://bookdragon.si.edu/?p=9408#comment-51777 [...] Verdict: No argument that the prize-winning Chung writes elegiac, exquisite, multilayered prose, yet her debut ultimately falters between too much (self-absorption overload, cousin Gabe’s death, sleazy adviser) and not enough (Hannah’s disappearance, her uncle’s silence). For greater satisfaction, readers might try Sonya Chung‘s Long for This World or Chang-rae Lee‘s The Surrendered. [...]

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