Newsweek web review of Ha Jin's A Free Life

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Harumph. "The Americanization of Ha Jin." Why'd they have to go and say library science is unsubversive?:

But Chinese authorities no doubt wish he'd studied library science.

Librarians are the most radical people!

A Review of Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's When the Rainbow Goddess Wept

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Tonight, I did some more pleasure reading. I’ve been feeling generally unmotivated all things work related; research in particular has been placed in a perpetual limbo. To avoid this no man’s land, I re-read When the Rainbow Goddess Wept by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. I’ve been meaning to pick this novel up again since I’m going to teach it this winter in my course on geography, time, and trauma in Asian American literature, but I just didn’t have the stomach to read something about war.

( A Review of Cecilia Manguerra Brainard’s When the Rainbow Goddess Wept )

A Review of The Queens of K-Town by Angela Mi Young Hur

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A Review of the Queens of K-Town by Angela Mi Young Hur

Basically, when I get home these nights, I feel too tired to do anything but read something not academically related. I certainly haven’t been able to write, but for some reason, I have reading addiction that keeps me up long past when I should be going to bed, causing me to have less sleep than I need and then I wake up even more tired the next day, with even less possibility that I will get any research or academic reading done. Oh, the vicious cycle within which I seem to put myself!

( Brief Review This-A-Way )