Pearl of China

I decided to start a book section on my blog, I love to read I would read a book a day if I had the time. I also added a widget on the side bar with a list of books in my reading queue.

This year I made the switch and bought a kindle after much debate. It was a very hard decision because I love books, holding them while reading them, the smell and looking at them on my bookshelf. (I know I'm a little weird). So after much probing from John I made the purchase, and I love it!! The books are cheaper and they have a great dollar a day book deal. Recently I have been purchasing a lot of the $1 books amazon has been offering. I just finished reading one called Pearl of China.

picture of amazon

 If you enjoy reading books based on true stories I highly recommend this one, I think I went through every emotion possible while reading it. (I love those type of books!)

Here is the description from Amazon:

It is the end of the nineteenth century and China is riding on the crest of great change, but for nine-year-old Willow, the only child of a destitute family in the small southern town of Chin-kiang, nothing ever seems to change. Until the day she meets Pearl, the eldest daughter of a zealous American missionary.

Pearl is head-strong, independent and fiercely intelligent, and will grow up to be Pearl S Buck, the Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning writer and humanitarian activist, but for now all Willow knows is that she has never met anyone like her in all her life. From the start the two are thick as thieves, but when the Boxer Rebellion rocks the nation, Pearl's family is forced to leave China to flee religious persecution. As the twentieth century unfolds in all its turmoil, through right-wing military coups and Mao's Red Revolution, through bad marriages and broken dreams, the two girls cling to their lifelong friendship across the sea.

In this ambitious and moving new novel, Anchee Min, acclaimed author of Empress Orchid and Red Azalea, brings to life a courageous and passionate woman who loved the country of her childhood and who has been hailed in China as a modern heroine.