If I'd Known I Could Read This Many Books at Once, I'd Have Stayed in Grad School
Right now it feels like I'm reading everything ever written about adoption, China, and China Adoption.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Adoption
The Unnoficial Guide to Adopting a Child
Raising Adopted Children
The Lost Daughters of China
From China With Love
...and that National Geographic DVD that everybody watches, China's Lost Girls.
Hub and I are both distressed by what we're reading and watching about the abandonment of girls in China, and the role of women in China in general. To offset this, I'm trying to take big heaping helpings of the things I like and admire about Chinese culture.
China: History and Civilization
Chinese Fairy Tales & Fantasies
Hero (the movie)
Chop Socky movies in general
Whatever TIVO can find with the word "China" in it
When I don't have a book in hand, I'm reading blogs. China adoption blogs, infertility blogs, domestic adoption blogs, general parenting blogs, birthmom blogs. A few of the good ones:
Once I finish the stack of books I'm already reading I'll kick back with a couple of multi-volume Chinese classics, and a few more adoption books. And somehow I'll have to squeeze in my normal quota of SF & Fantasy reading, so I don't go completely crazy.
Comments
If you want some positive China experiences, you need to check out Stephen Chow's movies, "Shaolin Soccer" and "Kung-Fu Hustle". The latter has become my favorite martial arts (although "chop socky", as you say, might be a better term here) movie.
Posted by: John | February 6, 2006 12:12 PM
Hi John, thanks for the tip. "Kung-Fu Hustle" is on our rent list but we haven't gotten to it yet. Sorry for the delay in publishing your comment...still figuring out this blog thing.
Posted by: alchemist | February 18, 2006 12:45 AM