pickA vivid portrayal of China from 1976-81:
"...Informative, disturbing, poignant and absorbing...personal encounters with individual Chinese that (were) almost unprecedented for any American journalist (at this time this book was written)." - NYT Book Review
Fascinating. I learned that I know less than I ever could have imagined.
https://youtu.be/qNC0kAqAPj0?si=taHq8-VbdoF-0UbF
Mikiko‘s reading project was to read six of my favorite books. Here‘s what happened.
Books
Happening by Annie Ernaux
Tanya Leslie (Translator)
Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi
Indelicacy by Amina Cain
The Peacock by Isabel Bogdan
Annie Rutherford (Translator)
pickThis is a true story of a young girl who lived through the Chinese Cultural Revolution in the 1960s when Chairman Mao was in power🇨🇳. It was brutal. “This is the most frightening lesson of the Cultural Revolution: Without a sound legal system, a small group or even a single person can take control of an entire country. This is as true now as it was then.
#Pantone2023
#MagnificentMay Readathon Day 1
#bookspin #doublespin @thearomaofbooks
Oh this feels like cheating! Both of these books were holdovers from last months #nonfictionNovember and I finished the #bookspin yesterday, and started the #DoubleSpin last night!
This means I can work on the 4 books I didn't get to earlier in the year.
This is a very good and engrossing book.
But.
It has been a long while since running into the R slur and seeing it a couple of times here it feels visceral. My whole body clenched. Definitely a word that reminds you this was not written recently.
