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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7763.The_Joy_Luck_Club?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Joy Luck Club" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1208482093m/7763.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7763.The_Joy_Luck_Club?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Joy Luck Club</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5246.Amy_Tan">Amy Tan</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8678232?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 5 of 5 stars 
 The book started off with Jing-Mei Woo, who was asked to sit in as one of the four players in the Joy Luck Club. She was to replace her mother who had recently passed away. The Joy Luck Club consists of four women who played a common Chinese game, and base on what I have seen it is usually used for gambling. The Joy Luck Club is what develops the plot because it is where we get the stories of each of the women in it.
 
 This book is separated into four sections. In all of these sections there would be a chapter where Jing-Mei Woo talks about her relationship with her mother. Each chapter in the first and last sections was about the three other women in the Joy Luck Club. It was written in their point of view. In these chapters they would talk about their past and their relationships with their mothers. Then they would talk about their relationships with their daughters. The next two sections were about the daughters of the three other women in the Joy Luck Club and they were written in their point of view. These chapters would be about their life and then about their relationship with their mothers. This is a weird way to write a book but it makes sense to write it that way so that we can hear the voices of each of these characters and their mother-daughter issues. 
 
 Throughout the book she would also include the pronunciation of Chinese words: “Yiding” meaning must. This was pretty interesting to me because as a Chinese person I did not understand more than half of it. The author also kept me reading probably because I personally am interested in these stories. A part of the book was about the history of China and people’s experiences back then. Jing-Mei Woo’s mother was force to give up her two children when the Japanese attacked China. She was walking to escape the Japanese with a lot of her belongings and her two children. First she was force to leave her belonging and then the food and then the children. Back then in China, the parents usually get to decide whom their child gets marry to and sometimes they decide even before the child was born. They would do this for the family’s benefit. Lindo Jong was sentenced to marry a boy she didn’t meet until she was about eight or nine. This is similar to most ancient Chinese movies I have seen, the women would then be married to the man, and then she would find a way to get the man to leave her. These stories interest me and it reminds me of those times when my mom would tell me about her stories.
 
 
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The book started off with Jing-Mei Woo, who was asked to sit in as one of the four players in the Joy Luck Club. She was to replace her mother who had recently passed away. The Joy Luck Club consists of four women who played a common Chinese game, and base on what I have seen it is usually used for gambling. The Joy Luck Club is what develops the plot because it is where we get the stories of each of the women in it.

This book is separated into four sections. In all of these sections there would be a chapter where Jing-Mei Woo talks about her relationship with her mother. Each chapter in the first and last sections was about the three other women in the Joy Luck Club. It was written in their point of view. In these chapters they would talk about their past and their relationships with their mothers. Then they would talk about their relationships with their daughters. The next two sections were about the daughters of the three other women in the Joy Luck Club and they were written ...more
The book started off with Jing-Mei Woo, who was asked to sit in as one of the four players in the Joy Luck Club. She was to replace her mother who had recently passed away. The Joy Luck Club consists of four women who played a common Chinese game, and base on what I have seen it is usually used for gambling. The Joy Luck Club is what develops the plot because it is where we get the stories of each of the women in it.

This book is separated into four sections. In all of these sections there would be a chapter where Jing-Mei Woo talks about her relationship with her mother. Each chapter in the first and last sections was about the three other women in the Joy Luck Club. It was written in their point of view. In these chapters they would talk about their past and their relationships with their mothers. Then they would talk about their relationships with their daughters. The next two sections were about the daughters of the three other women in the Joy Luck Club and they were written in their point of view. These chapters would be about their life and then about their relationship with their mothers. This is a weird way to write a book but it makes sense to write it that way so that we can hear the voices of each of these characters and their mother-daughter issues.

Throughout the book she would also include the pronunciation of Chinese words: “Yiding” meaning must. This was pretty interesting to me because as a Chinese person I did not understand more than half of it. The author also kept me reading probably because I personally am interested in these stories. A part of the book was about the history of China and people’s experiences back then. Jing-Mei Woo’s mother was force to give up her two children when the Japanese attacked China. She was walking to escape the Japanese with a lot of her belongings and her two children. First she was force to leave her belonging and then the food and then the children. Back then in China, the parents usually get to decide whom their child gets marry to and sometimes they decide even before the child was born. They would do this for the family’s benefit. Lindo Jong was sentenced to marry a boy she didn’t meet until she was about eight or nine. This is similar to most ancient Chinese movies I have seen, the women would then be married to the man, and then she would find a way to get the man to leave her. These stories interest me and it reminds me of those times when my mom would tell me about her stories.

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