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Listening on audiobook at 85 speed
Her letter about seasons of life and grief to Joan Didion was masterful and very moving.
Is it too much work to try to understand a character through their letters?

. Readers should be more mired than I was about the naming of pavilions and festivals for part 1. Did not know this would be about Chinese death rituals and beliefs. Interesting but not my favorite Lesa see novel. Pretty graphic foot binding which you would expect from the author. The end of the book where she binds the girls feet to raise her life prospects and make her an inside girl was eye opening for me

Too long. Unrealistic plot
Violet dislikable
Wouldn’t recommend

I’ve had to read the first 10 pages twice. The mom has 4 daughters: why are the introduced in the order: 2rd eldest, eldest, youngest then 3td. I realized they were reverse alpha and keep referring to that to keep track of who’s who. Wendy Violet Liza Grace

Part 2 is a better read but more ghost story

Difficult to read. Too much jargon of the ancient Chinese variety — names of times of the year or of pavilions or of what women do.

Fascinated

Reading Rachel is a wild ride. I loved flamethrowers. I an in the middle of another book (glass maker) but when I saw this at the library I grabbed it and then found out. At checkout that I have to read it within two weeks (library FastRead program). Page 124 not sure what to think