Monday Miscellany

On Thursday I attended Min Jin Lee Upstairs at the Square BN.com event and has such a good time. It was even covered at Galleycat.

Min Jin Lee brilliantly discussed how her main character’s last name, Hong, in her native Korean tongue speaks to the concept of anguish while Mike Doughty made the hair on my arm stand when he sung Fort Hood.

– Rafaela G. Castro, retired librarian and author of
Provocaciones: Letters from the Prettiest Girl in Arvin wrote to me and let me know the book was reviewed at Tucsonweekly last year. I’m sharing the review with everyone and reminding you to check the book out.

– Latina magazine got a revamped website and now has a book club: Latina.com/community Coincidently, they are reading
Paula by Isabel Allende.

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