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Veronica Li
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Journey Across the Four Seas: A Chinese Woman's Search for Home
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2006
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Viking Voyager: An Icelandic Memoir
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Confucius Says
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2015
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Nightfall in Mogadishu
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Defying Gravity: Fiction by DC-area Women
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Husband-Wife Collaboration
My husband, Sverrir Sigurdsson, and I recently published a book called Viking Voyager: An Icelandic Memoir, released on Nov. 3, 2020. It's his personal story of growing up in Iceland, an upbringing that inspired him to travel the world like his Viking forefathers.
We're happy to say, after several years of sometimes frustrating collaboration, we're still married. No two people can be more different Read more of this blog post »
We're happy to say, after several years of sometimes frustrating collaboration, we're still married. No two people can be more different Read more of this blog post »
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Two things strike me after reading this book. One is the openness and excellence of US universities, which have attracted some of the best and brightest minds from all over the world. The second thing is the courage of immigrants who make this trip, e ...more |
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| This isn’t just a travel book about three sisters sightseeing in three countries, it’s about their relationships over a lifetime. Rivalries and gripes dating back 60 some years are always bubbling under the surface. A sister tent can be fragile, but ...more | |
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| This is an entertaining book about a British couple moving to a small Spanish village in their retirement. They managed to renovate a piece of rundown property and become part of the local community. At a deeper level it’s about living your life as y ...more | |
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| Romania is a country with a rich history and culture, but during the Ceaucescu regime of 1965-1989, it had been reduced to an underdeveloped nation. The author, a Scottish professor of English at Bucharest University, witnessed the repressive tactics ...more | |
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| Next time I watch a movie, I’ll appreciate the credits that go on and on at the end. So many people and talents are required to shoot one scene. This book gives us laypeople a peek at what happens backstage. The author, who is passionate about the in ...more | |
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| This book brings home the meaning of “martial law”. When then president Marcos imposed martial law in the Philippines in 1972, it was just a news item to the rest of the world. But to the author and her family, a knock on the door upturned their live ...more | |
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What a delightful book about the author’s second home in the French countryside. The descriptions of the scenery and village life are humorous, delicious (full of mouthwatering recipes), romantic, and downright sexy. Her depiction of two snails makin ...more |
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| To love and be loved is as basic to human well-being as eating and breathing. But sometimes misguided love can bring much grief. The author tells a moving story of losing her son to a murderer’s bullet, starting with long ago events that led up to th ...more | |
“good times and bad times are like the sun and moon. You usually see one and not the other, and yet you know that both are always there. Therefore, she concluded, when your fortunes are riding high, you shouldn’t feel arrogant, and when they’re low, you shouldn’t feel depressed.”
― Journey across the Four Seas: A Chinese Woman's Search for Home
― Journey across the Four Seas: A Chinese Woman's Search for Home
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