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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9503.Saving_Fish_from_Drowning_A_Novel?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Saving Fish from Drowning: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1166020855m/9503.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9503.Saving_Fish_from_Drowning_A_Novel?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Saving Fish from Drowning: A Novel</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5246.Amy_Tan">Amy Tan</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20245496?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 2 of 5 stars<br/>I didn't like this book as much as others from Amy Tan. Perhaps it was because it wasn't based as much on Chinese-American culture or family relationships as her other books. It might have also been the political undertone / situations, that shaped my opinion. <br/> <br/>------------------------------------------------------- <br/> <br/> <br/>"'...they approach fishing with reverence. They scoop up the fish and bring them to shore. They say they are saing firsh from drowning. Unfortunately..' He looked downward, like a penitent. '...the fish do not recover.' <br/>...Heidi was unable to speak. Did these people actually believe they were doing a good deed? Why, they had no intention of saving anything....'It's horrible,' she said at last. 'It's worse than if they just killed them outright rather than justifying it as an act of kindness.' <br/>'No worse than what we do in other countries,' Dwight said...'Saving people from their own good,' he replied.'Invading countries, having them suffer collateral damage, as we call it. Killing them as an unfortunate consequence of helping them.'..'Just saying we should be aware of the consequences. You can't have intentions without consequences. Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who's saved? Who's not?" <br/> <br/>--------------------------------------------------------- <br/> <br/>"'That, in essence, is how my friends and I sometimes feel. We have adapted so that we can effect this one-legged stance and not fall over. We can dream of fish and propel ourselves forward, but sometimes out nets are empty, our rowing leg tires, and we are just drifting with the current, alon with the weeds...'" <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1019706?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>