pickThis book showed up in a subscription box (The Wordy Traveler), otherwise I would never have read it - but I‘m so glad I did, because I learned a lot about this part of the world. Ordinarily I prefer #ownvoices, and luckily the author provides several suggestions in the back of the edition I read. Worth the time. Also, narrative nonfiction is a thing that I now know I appreciate. 👍🏼
Books. Candy. Reading socks. Here we go. 💪🏻👑😍
Goal: finish this today! I‘m still off my reading groove, due to a roller coaster of anxiety, and I‘m trying to get back to the usual. This book is fascinating but I‘ve been stringing it along for weeks and I need a clean slate for March.
This came in a subscription box that Mr. JSW signed me up for, and initially I didn‘t want to read it. But now, after reading Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven, I‘m interested in more perspectives. Reading can be such a rabbit hole.
Virtually every Chinese citizen whom I came to know well was doing something technically illegal...It might be a sketchy apartment registration or a small business that bought its products from unlicensed wholesalers...late at night, there were always people out walking their dogs in Beijing, because the official dog registration was ridiculously expensive. The dogs were.. Pekingese, led by sleepy owners who snapped to alertness if they saw a cop.
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