Usually when checking out a book from the library, it's one I've already decided to read and have had on hold. Once in a great while, though, I browse the shelves. This time the book I came across was "The Last Empress." It's a novel based on the life of Empress Yehonala of China.It was okay. It was nice to read a different kind of book, but it may have been a little helpful to know a bit of the history behind it. It felt a bit disjointed, but that may not have been the case if I knew more about China in the late 19th century so I could fill in the blanks. Once I just accepted the fact that I wouldn't know everything that I might like to, I liked the book better.
Overall I think it was a fine book. The author knew her subject well, which lended it credibility, and she had a fairly poetic voice. If you're looking for any old thing to read, it's worth it, but if you have other books in mind, I'd probably go with those first.
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I so often have a booklist that I rarely just browse. But when I do, it's so delightful. Who knew that there were so many other interesting books on so many other interesting subjects?
(Which is why, right now, I'm reading "The Goldfish Went on Vacation", about a woman who's husband is dying of cancer)
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