J-emine's reflexionando

Okay, I’ll cut out the excuses as to why the reading is at snail speed and share the latest reads. Book # 7 – Last Tang Standing by Lauren Ho. Easy weekend read – think of an Asian a la Bridgette Jones. Coincidentally , I started the book the weekend…

Jiyoung became different people from time to time. Some of them were living, others were dead, all of them women she knew. No matter how you look at it, it wasn’t a joke or a prank. Truly, flawlessly, completely she became that person Kim Ji Young, Born 1981 – Cho…

Night had deepened. The mountain maze fell behind us like a bad dream. I was following Ursa Minor to the north. ‘Sanmao, do you still want fossils? Jose asked in a voice like a groan. ‘Yes’, I said simply. ‘And you?’ ‘Even more than you’. ‘When are we coming back?’…

All business on earth is management. In the hotel world – in any business world – you must look for three ingredients when you hire staff: talent, integrity and stamina for hard work. Robert Kuok, A Memoir with Andrew Tanzer This memoir has been sitting on my shelf for awhile…

At the point where I learned what I was fighting, loving , I knew that I was bound, in the end to lose. I dispensed with the formalities of tenderness, pity, the ceremonial flattery that should go before disciplined massacre. I fought, I suppose, like a woman uttering distracting cries,…

Nothing seemed really real. Sleep, walking, it all collided into one gray, monotonous plane ride through the clouds. I didn’t talk to myself in my head. There wasn’t much to say. This was how I knew the sleep was having an effect: I was growing less and less attached to…