The Joy Luck Club | 
so-soAll told, The Joy Luck Club wasn‘t really what I was expecting. It was fine, I‘m sure some find it deep and impactful, but it‘s not one I‘ll be thrusting into your hands or re-reading myself. In fact, I think reading the opening chapter as a short story by itself would make it much more powerful, so maybe give that a go instead. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/the-joy-luck-club-amy-tan/
“She told me to wear the necklace every day for one week so I would remember how easy it is to lose myself to something false.”
Beautifully written. A wonderful depiction of the love between mother and daughter.
June 8 #BigJunePhotoChallenge @Clwojick I recently read this one
There are some #courageous moms in this book
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pickI had this book for awhile and I finally decided to read it. It is a great book. 4 Chinese woman immigrants form a club after setting g in San Francisco. Each have daughters. I have never heard so many sayings and stories to scare children as this culture. I cried with the stuff these families went through. It is a really good read.
Starting the prettiest copy of this one...it‘s my December #doublespin and I‘m using it for my ‘80s book in the Decades Reading Challenge.
@TheAromaofBooks #bookspinbingo
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Amy Tan paints a complex portrait of the relationships between four Chinese mothers and their American-born Chinese daughters - the connection to family and culture as well as the distance, the storytelling and the miscommunication, the pride and shame, the beauty and pain. I‘m really glad I finally made time to read this.
pickWhen I finally read this classic, I discovered one of the stories was in my literature textbook in the 7th grade - I remember discussing it! I really enjoyed comparing the stories of the mothers to their daughters, and it also gave me insight into another world. I‘m the daughter of European immigrants, and it was interesting to see the similarities and differences between my family dynamic and the Chinese immigrant family dynamic.
Four family‘s stories told from different perspectives of mother or daughter, before and after immigration to the US depending on the narrator. Each family‘s story is compelling and I found this book hard to put down. Weaved into these families stories are folktales and rituals from China that contribute to who each family is and the mother/daughter relationships.
pickI started a reread of this classic last month during #AuthorAMonth, but got sidetracked with other things (annoying real life interrupting my reading). Still a great story of mothers & daughters, the things we share & the parts we keep to ourselves, the culture clashes that occur in any newly immigrated family as different generations adapt at different rates (honestly true of any family as kids adapt to new ways & tech differently than parents).
It seems like the last month has just gotten away from me. Still working on this one! I‘ll gladly take any spooky seasons book recommendations though! 🎃🖤👻
pickA series of vignettes focusing on the relationships between the mothers and daughters of the Joy Luck Club in the Chinatown neighborhood of San Francisco. I read this for the first time about 15 years ago and like it just as much now. #AuthorAMonth2021 #ReadingAsia2021 China
pickAmy Tan is an expert with the fragile complexity of the relationship between Chinese moms and their Chinese American daughters. It is moving, at times heartbreaking, and has a lovely flow 💗 🇨🇳
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“I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness.
and even though I taught my #daughter the opposite, she still came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.” #QuotsyAug21
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I loved the book and then the movie, and I‘m hoping to get tickets to go see the #stageplay at a local community theater in November. ❤️🐲💛
I was finally able to watch the American Masters Any Tan documentary last night. Holy cow was it good! It reminded me how much I loved this book a million years ago. I feel like I need to put this on my re-read list.
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“Maybe it was because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.”
Full GoodReads Review⤵️
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3130836247
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book and understand why it's so well renowned. The stories of each mother and daughter felt so real and were beautifully relayed.
So excited about my December #bookspin and #doublespin picks! @TheAromaofBooks
i‘ve been wanting to read this book for years and finally diving in 🎊 excited to watch the movie adaptation after i finish. book to film adaptations are usually the only movies i watch 🤭🤷♀️ #thejoyluckclub
Today‘s plans because someone may have forgotten that book club is Tuesday 🤦♀️
If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?
pickGood book! Its nice to read something out of the norm of what I usually reach for. This book explores the relationships between four Chinese women who have immigrated to San Francisco and their American daughters. Its made up of 16 short stories. It gets a little confusing keeping the women and daughters straight, as there seems to be a similarity between them. Overall, I enjoyed it. The Chinese mothers have such a unique and wise outlook on life.
Everybody looked down on somebody else. It didn't matter that everybody shared the same sidewalk to spit on and suffered the same fast-moving diarrhea 💩. We all had the same stink, but everybody complained someone else smelled the worst.
Today's plans @Soubhiville thanks again for this book. I'm so excited about #scarathlon I'm just finding things to do in between. Thank God it's close. I don't celebrate Halloween, but since it's reading I'm in. 🥳📚
I love this cover of the Joy Luck Club. I read the book years ago when the movie came out, and then several others by Amy Tan, but it was all before I tracked my reading so I don‘t remember much except liking it. #AugustAuthors
Born in the U.S. in 1952 to immigrant parents from China, Amy Tan grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area in a succession of twelve homes by the time she graduated from high school. She and I are the same age #augustauthors #amytan @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620
#AugustAuthors Day 26: While I own many of her novels, I have to admit this is the only #AmyTan book I have read, thus far.
Nicely put. I like Amy‘s style; it‘s full of eastern magic.
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pickSuch a beautiful book. Each story is poignant and wrenching. I love the way the perspectives weave together to paint a whole picture about the women's lives in China and in America.
Day 6 - #LuckInTheTitle #MarchMadness
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Listened to the audio of this beautiful story of 4 Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco who form The Joy Luck Cub. 40 years later story and history continue. Amy Tan examines deep connections between mothers and daughters. A very moving account and a true classic. Sad but story ends on a very positive note.
so-soI felt like this was an okay story, but it felt very disjointed.
Amy Tan‘s #debut novel (published 1989) tells the story of mothers and daughters. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum and play mahjong: The Joy Luck Club.
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Got distracted at the library today! Went in for an audiobook and came out with these two. 😊
I watched The Joy Luck Club ages and ages ago - I think the book will be great. I've had my eyes on The Memory Police too.
pickNot sure what took me so long to read this book from 1989, but I'm glad I finally did. It was a joy.
pickI really enjoyed this modern classic, and I'm glad it included a character list and a table of contents, because I was a little confused at first about who was narrating, how it was related to the rest of the story, etc. But in the end it was just so enjoyable. 4⭐
I just started this, and I can already tell it's going to be way up my alley. Having trouble putting it down so I can go to work!
My only reference for this is the movie, and for some reason I keep combining it in my mind with How to Make An American Quilt, which must have come out around the same time. They were also both mom books when I was a kid. I'll have to put HtMAAQ on my TBR, has anyone else read it?
This #alphabetbookishquiz was fun! Thank you @RealLifeReading!
