One morning last week we took a break from our books and walked outside. In a patch of woods, we sampled salmon berries the color of sunrise and listened to the tree frogs sing.
Entries from May 2005
Interlude
May 24th, 2005 · No Comments
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Little house on the asylum
May 24th, 2005 · 11 Comments
The girls and I finished reading Pioneer Girl by Andrea Warren. Abigail has been interested in the Little House series and I figured that reading true stories of pioneer girls would be a good counterbalance for Laura Ingalls Wilder’s mostly-happy-slightly-fictionalized-early-American-fairy tales. The story of Grace McCance and her family settling in Nebraska near the end […]
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More Song of the Azalea Reviews
May 24th, 2005 · No Comments
Joann at the Song of the Azalea blog linked to three other reviews of the book: Simon World, an Australian living in Hong Kong who recommended: Kenneth Ore retraces a living history of Hong Kong from the Japanese occupation through the troubles of the 1960s and to more recent times through the eyes of a […]
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The accordion: an instrument of the proletariat or bourgeoisie?
May 21st, 2005 · 2 Comments
I thought of Accordion Guy Joey deVilla while reading a section in Song of the Azalea Memoir of a Chinese Son, the autobiography of Kenneth Ore. For many years, Kenneth Ore was a secret recruiter for the Communists in China, using a youth group to find potential new members for the party. Mr. Ore was […]
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Song of the Azalea: a review
May 20th, 2005 · 2 Comments
Note: As soon as I saw Song of the Azalea I wanted to read it, so when Joann, one of the two authors and a friend I’ve met through blogging, offered to send me a copy to review, I accepted! Song of the Azalea by Kenneth Ore with Joann Yu is not a book to […]
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