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A Hundred and One Days by Asne Seierstad
Nonfiction: About Seierstad's coverage of the Iraq War a month before, during, and after the initial attack. For some reason, she decided to not use book chapters, and instead divided it into three sections: before, during, and after. But reading a book without chapters is like running a marathon, and though tempted to quit halfway through "before," I finished the book, cause you don't just quit a marathon halfway through.
A Floating City of Peasants: The Great Migration in Contemporary China by Floris-Jan van Luyn
Nonfiction: Does an decent job on the topic, but read Factory Girls instead.
A Comrade Lost and Found: A Beijing Memoir by Jan Wong
Nonfiction: It's part Jan Wong's family vacation and part redemption story. You have to read about her family vacation in order to get to the redemption/search for a long lost person story, which honestly is much more interesting than how her teenage sons are reluctant to spend their month in Beijing.
Current Location: San Francisco, CA
Song Playing: Laura Marling's Pandora Station
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