Lisa See

[Mike Burke]

I'm still here reading. And your review of "The Promotion"
prodded me to get a sample to try it.
My latest reading is Lisa See's latest, "The Tea Girl of
Hummingbird Lane,"

I have to thank whoever it was who drew my attention to The Tea Girl.
What a brilliant book. Thank You.

As for The Promotion, I have to admit that I hated it. Reasons too
many to enumerate, really. Stupid people behaving stupidly don't ring
my chimes.

But, Tea Girl made up for all that disappointment. I'm half way
through and can't wait to get back to it.

Mique


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[Nancy Spera]

Post by Mike Burke

I'm still here reading. And your review of "The Promotion"
prodded me to get a sample to try it.
My latest reading is Lisa See's latest, "The Tea Girl of
Hummingbird Lane,"

I have to thank whoever it was who drew my attention to The Tea Girl.
What a brilliant book. Thank You.
As for The Promotion, I have to admit that I hated it. Reasons too
many to enumerate, really. Stupid people behaving stupidly don't ring
my chimes.
But, Tea Girl made up for all that disappointment. I'm half way
through and can't wait to get back to it.
Mique

Re: Tea Girl, I think that was me. Glad you like it.
Same as Carol I have read almost everything by Lisa See,
even her book "On Golden Mountain," detailing her family's
history.

Nancy



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[Carol Dickinson]

Post by Nancy Spera
Same as Carol I have read almost everything by Lisa See,
even her book "On Golden Mountain," detailing her family's
history.
Nancy

When I was still in high school, I devoured everything
Pearl Buck wrote. I was devastated when I finished. And
for years I wanted to find something similar. Lisa See
has filled that spot for me. Before Lisa, I found Laura
Joh Rowland which are wonderful complicated mysteries
set in 17th century Japan, but Lisa is closer to Pearl
Buck. I do read her Red Princess series too which is
outside my genre preference since it features law
enforcement perspective, but the exotic setting of
modern China makes it interesting. And so far I haven't
ripped over blood and guts galore details, so very
tolerable.

Carol

[Mike Burke]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 18:02:25 -0700 (PDT), Carol Dickinson

Post by Carol Dickinson

Post by Nancy Spera
Same as Carol I have read almost everything by Lisa See,
even her book "On Golden Mountain," detailing her family's
history.
Nancy

When I was still in high school, I devoured everything
Pearl Buck wrote. I was devastated when I finished. And
for years I wanted to find something similar. Lisa See
has filled that spot for me. Before Lisa, I found Laura
Joh Rowland which are wonderful complicated mysteries
set in 17th century Japan, but Lisa is closer to Pearl
Buck. I do read her Red Princess series too which is
outside my genre preference since it features law
enforcement perspective, but the exotic setting of
modern China makes it interesting. And so far I haven't
ripped over blood and guts galore details, so very
tolerable.

I've never read Pearl Buck, but it was more by accident than by any
deliberate plan to avoid her.

My own personal favourite is Jung Chang whose "Wild Swans" was simply
rivetting. Her "Mao - The Untold Story" is also brilliant.

Must pursue more of Lisa See.

Mique

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[Nyssa]

Post by Mike Burke

I'm still here reading. And your review of "The
Promotion" prodded me to get a sample to try it.
My latest reading is Lisa See's latest, "The Tea Girl of
Hummingbird Lane,"

I have to thank whoever it was who drew my attention to
The Tea Girl.
What a brilliant book. Thank You.
As for The Promotion, I have to admit that I hated it.
Reasons too
many to enumerate, really. Stupid people behaving
stupidly don't ring my chimes.
But, Tea Girl made up for all that disappointment. I'm
half way through and can't wait to get back to it.
Mique

Sorry that "The Promotion" didn't float your boat. After
slogging through so many cookie cutter cozies it was a
refreshing change to me.

Yes, a lot of bad choices in that book, the most glaring
one to me was the financial firm partners who actually
thought it was okay and a good idea to try to smear a
loyal employee's reputation just to see how he'd handle it.

OTOH if it weren't for characters making poor choices, we
would miss out on a lot of fictional plots in a lot of
books.

I'll try harder to find something for you in my next
Finishes posting dump, Mique.

Nyssa, who already has quite a list of finishes stockpiled
although many are shorter novellas than full length tomes

[Carol Dickinson]

Post by Nyssa
OTOH if it weren't for characters making poor choices, we
would miss out on a lot of fictional plots in a lot of
books.

This, the major theme of "discussion" on FB Outlander
Book Club. Some people get disgusted with a character's
dumb choice (and they all are flawed characters being
deliciously human). Of course the real answer after
analyzing it to death as if we were psychologists, and
ignoring that Diana used that as a device to move the
plot forward, or sideways,or whatever, if the character
hadn't made that choice we would have lost several
hundred pages of story.

carol