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Book Review--THE PORCELAIN THIEF

10/27/2015

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It’s Booklust Wanderlust bookreview time again! This month over at The Displaced Nation, I reviewed Huan Hsu’s memoir THE PORCELAIN THIEF about searching for his family’s buried treasure in China. Hsu, the American-born child of Chinese immigrants, deals with culture shock, learns about the history of the porcelain industry and uncovers the details of a family legend.

Read more at the link:  http://thedisplacednation.com/2015/10/24/booklust-wanderlust-in-the-porcelain-thief-atck-and-expat-writer-huan-hsu-assembles-shards-of-his-chinese-heritage/
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Summer Books! (New Booklust, Wanderlust columns)

7/4/2015

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It's summer! The best time to curl up with a cold book and a deep read. Recently, for Displaced Nation, I asked some authors and writerly friends to give me some ideas about their favorite beach books. The result? Two posts full of novels, memoirs and other adventures! 

Take a look here at Part I, featuring Alli Sinclair (author of Luna Tango and a former Novel Adventurer), Brittani Sonnenberg (Home Leave), Christine Kling (The Shipwreck Adventure series), Heidi Noroozy (translator and a former Novel Adventurer). 

In Part II, we get recommendations from Mark Adams (author of Meet Me in Atlantis), Marianne C. Bohr (to-be-published Gap Year Girl), Shireen Jilla (The Art of Unpacking Your Life), me and my editor M.L. Awanohara.

Happy reading!
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Book Review: THE ART OF UNPACKING YOUR LIFE

5/27/2015

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This time for my Booklust, Wanderlust column at The Displaced Nation, I interview the lovely author Shireen Jilla about her second novel, The Art of Unpacking Your Life. Set in the Kalahari, this book puts together a group of friends who were once best friends in university. Many thanks to Shireen for agreeing to the interview! 

Read it here. 
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Book Review--MEET ME IN ATLANTIS

5/1/2015

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In my latest Booklust, Wanderlust column for The Displaced Nation, we venture off in search of the lost city of Atlantis, with Mark Adams' Meet Me in Atlantis. 

Read my review here.
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Book Review--Allen Kurzweil's WHIPPING BOY

3/20/2015

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This month on Displaced Nation I take a look at Allen Kurzweil's globe-trotting memoir about the search for his childhood bully as an adult. Part thriller, part comedy and all too-crazy-to-be-fiction, WHIPPING BOY was a pleasure to read. Check out the full review here.  
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Booklust, Wanderlust--Review of "Home Leave"

11/14/2014

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This month for my book column on The Displaced Nation I reviewed Home Leave, an expat tale by Brittani Sonnenberg. 

Sonnenberg, an American who lives in Berlin, is an Adult Third Culture Kid (this is a theme on The Displaced Nation) and her book mirrors her own experiences as a child and teenager growing up between cultures. 

What are you reading lately? If it's good, let me know on Twitter! 
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New Booklust, Wanderlust Column--"Passionate Nomad"

8/26/2014

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Click on the image above to go to this month's book review on The Displaced Nation. "Passionate Nomad" by Jane Fletcher Geniesse looks at the early life and development of hotshot wartime Middle East expert and lifelong adventurer Dame Freya Stark and is a gripping read.
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Booklust, Wanderlust--Review of "Country Driving"

7/17/2014

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This week in my Booklust, Wanderlust column on The Displaced Nation, I review Peter Hessler's  "Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip." 

I loved old China hand Peter Hessler's books on his early years studying and working in the Middle Kingdom. "River Town" and "Oracle Bones" are detailed memoirs that were both good reads and a good primer for what to expect when I moved to China. "Country Driving" continues in Hessler's tradition of showing the small details of everyday Chinese peoples' lives to illustrate some of the bigger challenges facing the Middle Kingdom.

Please stop by the site to take a look at my review and the dozens of other articles by The Displaced Nationers--international creatives. 

Happy reading!

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Booklust, Wanderlust--My New Column on The Displaced Nation

6/13/2014

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I'm excited to announce that today my first review as a columnist for The Displaced Nation is live! 

The Displaced Nation, which bills itself as "a home for international creatives," invited me to start a book column to review books on topics that would be of interest to their readership of long-time expats and adult "third culture kids."

My first column looks at an engrossing series I recently finished, the Dublin Murder Squad books by Irish writer Tana French.  Please stop by the site and check out my review, and the other great articles by Displaced Nationers! 

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So many books, so little time...

2/2/2014

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Every year, sometime in January, I try to calculate how many books I read in the previous 12 months. Reading books (specifically novels, though I seem to be reading more nonfiction in the  last two years) is a daily habit, and I usually have more than one book going at a time.

Last year and the year before, I was able to make a guess at how many books I read because I could count the titles on my Kindle. Unfortunately, over the Christmas holiday my Kindle decided that three years of constant use was a long enough life span and stopped working. I'm trialling reading Kindle books on my iPad instead, but will probably bite the bullet and get another dedicated ebook reader in the next couple of months. I read email and webpages on my iPad every day, but it's not really a comfortable platform to read a novel on, especially just before going to sleep: the screen's bright and it's too heavy to hold up for several chapters.

Anyway, this year, I've decided to look forward rather than back and plan a little as how many books I'm going to read this year. In January, I read 12 books--behind my usual pace for a month that included a holiday, and I'm blaming that on the indecision about reading on my iPad or not. I'm guessing most months I read between 5-15 books, with an annual total of around 100. 

One of the books I did read this month was part of the Untreed Reads reading challenge, which I'm happy I stumbled upon before the deadline to enroll. Basically, they're giving me a book a month and asking me to then write an honest review of it when I've finished. I've been meaning to post more book reviews on Goodreads for some time now, so this seemed like a fun way to make that happen (and get free books, whee!). For January, I picked Lesley A. Diehl's A Deadly Draught, which looked like fun because it mixes mysteries and beer--two topics I enjoy. You can see my review on Goodreads here. As the year progresses, I'll mention the other titles I read in this blog under the "untreed reads challenge" tag.

What are your reading goals for 2014?

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    Beth is an American freelance writer who has lived in Europe and Asia since 2003. She grew up on a sailboat and, though now a landlubber, still enjoys a peripatetic life. She writes articles and suspense about travel, expatriate living, and many other topics.
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