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My list of books to look at/buy is now in my library under, appropriately enough, Wish List. Thanks for the review on A Concise Chinese—English Dictionary for Lovers will have to try that one.
Books v. Cigarettes seems to have an odd choice of essays, certainly not my favourites. Anyway just wanted to mention that for extreme Orwell fans his diaries are being published (in real ... A Concise Chinese—English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
 
My rating: 4 stars
This novel was ... Book #48: A Concise Chinese—English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
My rating: 4 stars
Good idea! The Winecoff Fire looks interesting.
I'd recommend A Concise ChineseEnglish Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo. It's a beautiful novel about a young Chinese woman who goes to study in England, meets an older man, and falls in love. It's written in the first person and starts out ... The books I've completed for my 50-Books Challenge are listed first in the order read. The remaining books include: Books I've bought and haven't read yet, some books I want to finish, plus books recommended by other LT-ers. I was going to wait until Jan. 1st to begin, but I got snowed in, so m ... Hey avaland, and thank you!
The Xiaolu Guo novel keeps nudging at my brain, to the point where I went back and reread a slice of it last night. I massively under-estimated it at the start of my first reading.
I'm with you on the mysteries-as-palate-cleansers. The not so great ones are also ... ... vacation (a quiet cottage in Maine), and am very glad I read it. Such a shocking, thought-provoking book!
I am now on to A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo, an LT-inspired read. ... ago which was a harrowing way to spend a few hours. I also recently finished Haruki Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart and The Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers by Xiaolu Guo. I've been reading a few short stories by Akutagawa but my current Asian fiction challenge is ... A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers is a reasonably quick read. Although it's billed as a romantic comedy, it's somewhat more than that. Lots about language, communication, love and it's an interesting look at Western culture. ... the years? Witty, yet poignant. And, the reaction of the 6 year old is hysterical; I almost wet my pants laughing...
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - see my review for it.
In a Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming. Excellent first mystery set in upstate New York ... I have finished A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers and have started The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Moshin Hamid. While still keeping a toe in Burma (and also several other places), I'm in London with A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo which is very good, laugh out loud in some places.
>32, I await your comments when finished! ... sin. It's obvious, she said, that the children of men needed the good women of Sichuan. OK, they might have needed a concise Chinese-English dictionary for lovers to help them out a little in the teahouse of the August moon but devices and desires would have led to completion.
Cre ... A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
Mao:The Untold Story
The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
Shadow of the silk Road by Colin Thubron
The China Syndrome by Burton Wohl Last week I finished The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards, Misfortune: A Novel by Wesley Stace, and A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by XiaoLu Guo. Of those three, Misfortune was my favorite, but none of them really grabbed me. The Edwards and the Guo faltered ... ... with recently raved about:
Fiction:
Night Watch by Sarah Waters - short listed for the booker (should of won)
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Special Topics ... fingers are still crossed for a concise chinese-english dictionary for lovers - such an amazing, amazing book, especially for a first novel written in english (which is the author's second language).... it would be fantastic for it to gain a wider readership that winning would give it. Having finished The Moonstone - excellent by the way, am now half way through The Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo which I've had on my list since February and is now shortlisted for the Orange Prize. I was also interested because my daughter-in-law is Chinese. It' ... ... Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
The Observations by Jane Harris
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
I have read those by Adic ... wow, the inheritance of loss again. funny, i know only One person who hasn't hated it.
very excited that a concise chinese-english dictionary for lovers got in there - it is a spectacular novel. ...
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Nell Freudenberger The Dissident
Rebecca Gowers When to Walk
Xiaolu Guo A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Jane Harris The Observations
M J Hyland Carry Me Down
Lori Lansens The Girls
Lisa Moore Allig ...
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