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The girls and I finished reading Pioneer Girl by Andrea Warren. Abigail has been interested in the Little House series and I figured that reading true stories of pioneer girls would be a good counterbalance for Laura Ingalls Wilder’s mostly-happy-slightly-fictionalized-early-American-fairy tales. The story of Grace McCance and her family settling in Nebraska near the end […]

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Joann at the Song of the Azalea blog linked to three other reviews of the book: Simon World, an Australian living in Hong Kong who recommended: Kenneth Ore retraces a living history of Hong Kong from the Japanese occupation through the troubles of the 1960s and to more recent times through the eyes of a […]

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I thought of Accordion Guy Joey deVilla while reading a section in Song of the Azalea Memoir of a Chinese Son, the autobiography of Kenneth Ore. For many years, Kenneth Ore was a secret recruiter for the Communists in China, using a youth group to find potential new members for the party. Mr. Ore was […]

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Note: As soon as I saw Song of the Azalea I wanted to read it, so when Joann, one of the two authors and a friend I’ve met through blogging, offered to send me a copy to review, I accepted! Song of the Azalea by Kenneth Ore with Joann Yu is not a book to […]

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A test post here. After reading an ecto article in Make 01 I couldn’t wait to use it, but now I have to figure it out… yes, this means I am now officially using my PowerBook… well, that was fun to import!

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