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Books I've read so far this year...
Jun. 24th, 2007 12:58 pm1. The human Christ: the search for the historical Jesus by Charlotte Allen. [I forget this one. Ancient history interests me, but I thought this one was a little on the dry side.]
2. Lisey's Story by Stephen King
3. Orientalism by Edward Said
4. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
5. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
6. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
7. Language death: The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect by Nancy C. Dorian
8. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
9. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri. Tranlated by Robert Pinsky.
10. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See -- It took me only two days to read this book. It was very well written and defintely one I would recommend that others read.
Being a woman in nineteenth century China had to be horrendous. For one, the only options women had in life were to marry, and unless they were from a very poor village, in order to find a husband they would need to practice foot binding. And I used to think that they just wrapped girls' feet to keep them from growing bigger. No...they wrapped the foot and made the girls walk on them so the toes and the bones in their foot broke. The goal was to bend the last four toes back towards the heel so the big toe formed a point at the front of the foot. And the smaller their feet were, the more marriageable they were.
The book also dealt with the role of nu shu, a system of writing invented by women, so that women could communicate with female family members who were married off to families in other villages. It was a system that some women used to combat the oppression they were dealing with in their everyday lives.
2. Lisey's Story by Stephen King
3. Orientalism by Edward Said
4. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
5. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
6. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
7. Language death: The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect by Nancy C. Dorian
8. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
9. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri. Tranlated by Robert Pinsky.
10. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See -- It took me only two days to read this book. It was very well written and defintely one I would recommend that others read.
Being a woman in nineteenth century China had to be horrendous. For one, the only options women had in life were to marry, and unless they were from a very poor village, in order to find a husband they would need to practice foot binding. And I used to think that they just wrapped girls' feet to keep them from growing bigger. No...they wrapped the foot and made the girls walk on them so the toes and the bones in their foot broke. The goal was to bend the last four toes back towards the heel so the big toe formed a point at the front of the foot. And the smaller their feet were, the more marriageable they were.
The book also dealt with the role of nu shu, a system of writing invented by women, so that women could communicate with female family members who were married off to families in other villages. It was a system that some women used to combat the oppression they were dealing with in their everyday lives.
