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A new way of looking at kids not doing what you want them to do. If they could do it, they would. Ideas to identify tge problem(one at a time) then collaborate to find solutions. It’s lack of skills that starts the problem!

Continues the story of Wang the Tiger and son.

This is obviously AI generated. Facts presented in gobbledygook gook. Just reading to reinforce my knowledge about Ancient China.

Lots of twists and great details make this a gripping tale!

This book wastes no time with recaps or introductions. Want Lung and the story of his sons begins immediately. The writing is sooo good!

The blurb about atomic bomb tests conducted near Las Vegas in the 50’s was particularly amusing! Picnic lunches, watch the blast, then get checked with a Geiger counter! lol

Apparently Wilson betrayed the Chinese like he did Koreans by leaving Japan in control! What a betrayal !

Although comparing the courtesans and their activities to beautiful metaphors of nature, let’s tell the truth.. they were victims of human trafficking. Amy tells great stories, but this one covers over the ugly truth of patriarchy, misogyny, sexism and racism. These sums have been around for centuries and continue into the modern age.

Omg… the narrator gets Shanghaied by her own mother!

It’s always fascinating to follow the life path of outstanding people!

I am sad to say I am near the end of this monumental book about Korea. Buck has a way of making the reader feel what her characters are feeling. The book encompasses Korean history from the Sejeon dynasty to 20th century occupation by Japan and how America did nothing to help free the people until we too were attacked by Japan!

As she did in The Good Earth with a Chinese farmer, Buck enters the mind of a Korean yangban (elite)during the period of Korean history when Japan defeated China during a brief peasant revolt and completely took over the rule of Koreans. This would last 40 years, ending only with ww2 defeat of Japan. She tells of the brutalities Koreans endured under this rule and their striving for independence.

What a special book to get lost in! Like the Good Earth, Buck immerses the reader in perfect details of Korean life! She just went through the whole lifecycle of silkworms and how women would make silk each year!

I never realized the stress that greedy and unscrupulous managers placed on their sensitive musicians. Dylan had great emotional intelligence and hot away from his. Jimi Hendrix wasn’t as savvy and didn’t realize part of the major stresses in his life was of his manager’s doing. I’m sure this contributed to his drug use snd early death.

All the power players are men with women basically subservient to them. This definitely before the feminist and me too movements.

Every chapter better than the last! hard to put down!

I didn’t know this was part one of a trilogy, so I plan yo reread this one and read the other 2!

A lot of details

People who lived or visited Woodstock NY describe its mythical spirituality. The Native Americans found that too there, but were pushed out!

TheBritish replaced the Portuguese as the main Europeans in West Africa by the 1800’s. When the Oba, king of Benin, tried to stop trade with Europeans, the British sent a diplomatic mission to assert their “right” to trade. Benin soldiers attacked, and Britain used this as a pretext to invade. troops entered the capital, deposed the king and killed hundreds, founding the British Niger Coast Protectorate.

With over 2,000 languages and cultures, it is really difficult to remember even a few!

The Kochs and other pro free market suddenly became proponents of the nanny state, when their assets were threatened. As long it was just the poor who were affected by unregulated markets, they were loudly against
government handouts! “Capitalism for thee but not for me.”

As Obama said,”There is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street.”

In 2008 the new deal Keynesian money spending on projects to restart the economy was converted to Keynesian jump starting financial companies and hedge funds. Their greed had been rewarded by the very type of economics they denounced. lol. Hypocrites.

With the 2008 financial crisis, neoliberal economist Pisner admitted that economists have not figured out how the economy wotks. Mathematical formulas do not take fear and market irrationality out of the equation.

Debt is has become the dominant force shaping the US and the world economy.

Derivatives are synthetic and engineered financial instruments built on top of real assets.