Bookspine

January 29, 2011 when I first blogged about this book, and true enough from my forecast I laughed about similar situation that happened in our household, what I didn’t see coming was crying about same feeling I felt back then. When I was asked by my colleagues if this book was any good I answered, “I don’t know,” I shrugged “I love it because I can relate to it” anyway liking something is subjective so that would depend on the reader. My mom is not even pure Chinese, and she was not raised the same way we were. All she was telling us is she needs to work hard for everything she wants in life because they were too many for our Grandmother to supervise. My grandpa is in the army so he is always away for mission and they were nine in the family, my Mom was the second child but the eldest child was sent in the convent so that she can study for free so it was my Mom who took the role of the eldest daughter who happens to assist my grandma in raising the other 7 children. That’s probably ...