Reading Aloud: The Beautiful Fall

August 29, 2010.Reading time 1 minute.

The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris Written by Alicia Drake Drake exposes the lives of Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent, two designers who “shared the same stage, but a different destiny.” Both Lagerfeld and Saint Laurent were visionaries in the business,tried to […]

Reading Aloud: Ragtime

August 19, 2010.Reading time 1 minute.

Cover of Ragtime Ragtime Written by E.L. Doctorow In addition to Mountains Beyond Mountains and Interpreter of Maladies, Ragtime is another novel I will be studying sometime this year. I refuse to keep reading it. It’s infuriatingly boring to be quite honest. There’s random sexual imagery that can’t save this historical fiction from its inevitable […]

Reading Aloud: Shanghai Girls

August 14, 2010.Reading time 3 minutes.

Shanghai Girls (2009)Written by Lisa See I have always loved Asian culture. It’s probably because I’m Asian… and I have no idea what its like there so I look to books to grasp some idea of where I come from. I’m not of Chinese descent like Lisa See. In fact, she’s only eighth Chinese, barely […]

Reading Aloud: Interpreter of Maladies

August 7, 2010.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Image via Wikipedia Interpreter of Maladies (1999)Written by Jhumpa Lahiri Lahiri describes different lives of Indians who live in the home country and those who immigrated and deal with the sense of belonging to both India and America. Each story presents real life situations–divorce, disease, discovery– that makes it easy for the reader to relate […]