Book Club

Yong Zheng
Kong Zheng
Debbie

Review of “The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency”

            “The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency” is a detective novel by Alexander McCall Smith. Mma Ramotswe is a fat lady, but she has talent to solve the mysteries. She had a bad first marriage, but at the end of book, she got her happiness. There is a sentence that we like very much. The Mr.JRB said that everything can fix in this world even the love, so even though Mma suffered a bad experience of her love, she accepted a new chance to be happy in her life. We prefer to the chapter “Boyfriend”. The girl lied to her father and Mma that she had a boyfriend in order to get freedom. In fact, this boyfriend is exist. This is a book not only with mysteries, but also with the emotion in friends, family and customer. Mma is a smart and storng woman, and she helped people to deal with many problems. by the way, she also made money and got a happiness

                  

Red Azalea - Book Review

Melanie
Tony
Jason
Angie
Zoe

The book Red Azalea was great because the plot was exciting, clear and mind bowling. There is no doubt that the Cultural Revolution was a big disaster of China during 1964-1976. We learned the deep affection of the people’s minds by reading Red Azalea. The most favorite part of this book is the death of Little Green, because this is a small high tide in shocking of the whole story that almost let Anchee and Yan to collapse. The death of Little Green gives me the perspective on how society was, and I was so impressed on how cruel people could be at that time. In addition, the ending was pretty boring since we thought there would be some emotional events to end the book. However, before going to America, Anchee’s life had been so tasteless since she worked in the film studio for the six years. Moreover, the exciting scene was that the sexual description between Yan and Leopard, and also the affair of Anchee’s and the supervisor. Finally, if you asked me to talk about the book, I would say that the book is wonderful, and is worth reading if you’re in ESL 100.

Joy Luck Club book review

Elsa
Yue Sheng
Chris
Harry


The book “Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan discuss about the childhood of Jing Mei’s family. It’s about how they overcame their obstacles. Everyone has their problems with their parents and how they fix them. Amy likes to use Chinese to describe her feelings. Nevertheless, she discuss about the Chinese celebration. The book was written during the World War II. Immigrant parents’ unrealistic dreams that accidently put the pressure on their children to be the best in the new country. They also talks about the Chinese culture and where the fairy tales come from. I strongly recommend this book to those who are interest in learning a new culture and to understand more of what the immigrants have been through in the United States.