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"Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day."
The Concubines Children
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The Concubines Children
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12 journalers for this copy...
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This book was fascinating. It is interesting to read about the lives of people with such different customs, ones that I am mostly unfamiliar with, except through books like this one. I feel so frustrated for the women in this book, leading lives whose paths were chosen for them. Their are countless examples of things that are hard for me to understand. For instance, one woman's husband left her and their four children behind for a mistress. Although man and wife have no contact for 25 years, when the mistress dies and the man falls ill, he writes his wife to announce he will be coming home so that she can care for him until his death. This is not really the main focus of the book, just a side note in the lives of others. Anyway, the book told of one family living in two parts of the world- China and Canada. The main focus is on the Canadain family because the author is a grand-daughter of the Canadian side of the family and probably knew more history from that aspect. Both aspects of life in Canada and China are well represented. The book is filled with personal history and accounts along with some political background information from both countries which was necessary to understand why people felt the way they did and made some desicions. This book is part of my challenge- Keep Them Moving Release Challenge. This is a challenge I started in which people are supposed to read and release books given to them by other Bookcrossers and do it throughout October and November. I think this book is interesting enough to turn into a bookring. Hopefully others will be as intrigued by it as I was. I tried to honor everyone's shipping preferences to the best of my abilities. affinity4books (Texas, prefers US, will do Canada) vibrant-art (Canada, ship North America, prefers Canada) Breeze144 (in Canada) Hellie (England) Piggeldy (Germany) amberC (in Australia, prefers Australia shipping if possible) leeess (in Australia, prefers Australia shipping if possible) Wandering-B (Hong Kong) Icila (France) guinaveve (back to me, in the US) |
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Released 6 yrs ago (10/21/2005 UTC) at Fellow BookCrosser in Postal release, Postal Release -- Controlled Releases WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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Released 6 yrs ago (11/17/2005 UTC) at sent via media mail in Mailed to another BC member, a fellow bookcrosser -- Controlled Releases WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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Released 6 yrs ago (1/20/2006 UTC) at Bookring in , --by post or by hand (ie ring, ray, RABCK, trade) -- Controlled Releases WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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Released 5 yrs ago (11/13/2006 UTC) at In the hands of the Royal Mail in Posted to another bookcrosser, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- United Kingdom WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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Released 4 yrs ago (2/29/2008 UTC) at by postal services in Sent by mail, a fellow bookcrosser -- Controlled Releases WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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