tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62686892011-04-21T21:14:20.142-07:00books, reviews, recommendations, & sometimes, a little breakfest.chellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10338542148471405985noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268689.post-1073159133515598092004-01-03T11:45:00.000-08:002004-01-03T11:47:38.630-08:00

The Woman Warrior : Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston Memoirs of a Chinese-American girl growing up, clashing with the ideals her chinese heritage has imposed on the author, and her struggles to find her identity. She's neither fully American or Chinese, but falls somewhere confusingly inbetween the two (as many of us "Something-Americans" do). both cultures make that

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Behind Every Choice Is a Story by Gloria Feldt I have never read a book as insightful and human than this book, and what it expressed. It doesn't press the ideals of pro-choicers (for those of you who are pro-life), but instead, it gives a face to the people affected by these vary issues that so many people argue about today; people who have never and will never go through what so many woman

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The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Deliciously ethnic? Yes, but not in an off putting in-your-face sort of way. The ethnic aspect of the book is more of an under-tone, a vehicle, for the various short chapter stories (all connected). In terms of big brainy words, it's certainly not a complicated read. The book is short in length, but what it lacks in volume, it makes up for it in depth

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