Tag: dictatorship

• Book Review Friday – Two Books by Lisa See

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick When I read Shanghai Girls by Lisa See, I didn’t put the book down for several days. The book follows the lives of two sisters, May and Pearl, portrayed as selfish, hedonistic young women 1937 in what some referred to as the “Paris of Asia” in Shanghai, China. When the family…

  P. C. Zick

  March 22, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  amazon.com, authors, characters, China, dictatorship, Dreams of Joy, fiction, Lisa See, novel, Peony in Love, point of view, Shanghai Girls, writers

• Book Review Friday – In the Time of the Butterflies

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick Book Description from Amazon: It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth…

  P. C. Zick

  March 15, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  authors, characters, dictatorship, Dominican Republic, fiction, history, Julia Alvarez, point of view, Selma Hayek, Trujillo