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Review Date: 12/7/2009
Helpful Score: 1
If you like Sittenfeld's other books, then you will probably like this one. I liked it.
The author takes what we know about Laura Bush and creates a fictional story around it. So don't think it is a biographical story--it is fiction. Lots of introspection as is common in this author's works. I thought the plot moved along nicely through the four parts.
The author takes what we know about Laura Bush and creates a fictional story around it. So don't think it is a biographical story--it is fiction. Lots of introspection as is common in this author's works. I thought the plot moved along nicely through the four parts.
Review Date: 7/4/2013
Helpful Score: 1
It ended up being a five-tissue book. That's all I will say.
Review Date: 10/14/2012
Helpful Score: 4
I cannot begin to fully express my love for this book. A heterosexual, Kurek "came out" as a gay man for one year to see what the experience really was all about. Once the year was up, Kurek found himself radically transformed from the person he though he was.
The author truly put himself on the line and ended up learning so much. At first I thought that telling the lie that he was gay would be a deceitful way to begin the experiment, however, Kurek was encouraged by several people that the ends would justify the means; and I'll let you read it for yourself to see who was the angry one when it came to the lie itself. The insights in every chapter blew me away. I had to sit with a box of tissue for this book.
It is the only non-fiction book to date that I have stayed up to the wee hours to finish. I read it straight through. It is not only preaching about God's love for those in the margins, but also the very ones in the church that are set in their ways and beliefs. God's love does reach all. This book is powerful because it teaches the value of relationship in overcoming prejudice and hate.
The author truly put himself on the line and ended up learning so much. At first I thought that telling the lie that he was gay would be a deceitful way to begin the experiment, however, Kurek was encouraged by several people that the ends would justify the means; and I'll let you read it for yourself to see who was the angry one when it came to the lie itself. The insights in every chapter blew me away. I had to sit with a box of tissue for this book.
It is the only non-fiction book to date that I have stayed up to the wee hours to finish. I read it straight through. It is not only preaching about God's love for those in the margins, but also the very ones in the church that are set in their ways and beliefs. God's love does reach all. This book is powerful because it teaches the value of relationship in overcoming prejudice and hate.
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
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Book Type: Hardcover
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Book Type: Hardcover
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Review Date: 6/17/2008
Helpful Score: 2
I really enjoyed this book, but I do have a good reason. I married a man whose family came to America and opened a Chinese restaurant. And I worked there after for about five years after we were married. Even as a white American, I know the Chinese restaurant "sub-culture." It was still amazing to see how Americans are bound by the experience of eating Chinese food. You thought "American" was about apple pie? As the author states in the first chapter, "How often do you eat apple pie? How often do you eat Chinese food?" It is a great book for getting behind the scenes of Americanized Chinese food. And after I finished it, I was looking for the take-out menu!
Review Date: 3/14/2010
Helpful Score: 1
A very entertaining book! I like the 21st century take on the Greek gods.
Review Date: 6/8/2010
This book says ages 8-12, and I would say closer to 12 than 8--I know my almost 8 year old would not care for it (and he is an advanced reader). It has a lot of basic information about lawyers and trials that is explained through the main character's eyes--and that might be interesting to a tween.
Grisham doesn't develop the characters emotionally very much (like he does in the adult fiction he writes), but I found it an interesting read overall. Something that an adult can read in an afternoon.
Grisham doesn't develop the characters emotionally very much (like he does in the adult fiction he writes), but I found it an interesting read overall. Something that an adult can read in an afternoon.
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