Above The East China Sea by Sarah Bird. This novel is amazing. I can't get it out of my mind. Recently published (in May), and I inhaled it. Two girls - one an army brat, a teenager, whose mother is stationed on Okinawa, in present times, and the other, a teenage Okinawan girl during the...
The tongue!! :D I've wanted to catch Larry with his tongue out for ages, but he always wakes up. Got it, this time!! :D He was so fast asleep, that, even when I took the picture he didn't wake up.
I know what you're saying about Scotland! After finishing Ian Rankin's new Rebus detective book (Saints of the Shadow Bible), which takes place in Edinburgh, I got started on the Outlander series with the first book. Just finished that and am moving on to Dragonfly in Amber.
At first, when I...
I'm in the middle of The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. Excellent book, and I find it really hard to put down. I can't just pick it up and read it in bits, as once I get started, I don't want to leave this world she's painting.
Wow. Almost 5 years since I posted on this thread, but, as the years have passed, I find that I miss him more and more when I'm gone. I just spent two weeks away, for the holidays, and a neighbor was taking care of him. They do a great job, but he's so shy, he just runs into the closet and...
Yeah, I actually did do some research on the golem. It's what made the novel so interesting to me, because I also did some research on the Jinn - the combining of the two fantastical beings in this story was wonderful
Here's the review that's on Amazon:
"In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York.
Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life to by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in...