Asian Heritage Month: A Booklist

Happy Heritage Month to all Asians and Friends! I celebrate today with a list of Asian-related books I have enjoyed, gleaned from my Library Thing catalogue.

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	Title	Author	Date	Tags	Rating	Comments
	Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life	Thich Nhat Hanh Hanh, Thich Nhat	1992	activism, Asia, meditation, Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnam		My all time favourite; I owe this book a debt of gratitude.
	The Long Road Turns to Joy: A Guide to Walking Meditation	Thich Nhat Hanh Hanh, Thich Nhat	1996	activism, Asia, meditation, Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnam		I use these teachings every day. Wow.
	The Bone Collector's Son	Paul Yee Yee, Paul	2005	Asia, bone collectors, China, Chinatown, ghosts, historical fiction, Vancouver, YA		Great YA: ghosts, culture, history, dad-son conflict, open graves--the lot!
	Learning True Love: How I Learned & Practiced Social Change in Vietnam	Sister Chan Khong Khong, Sister Chan	1993	activism, Asia, Buddhism, engaged Buddhism, Maxine Hong Kingston, mindfulness, mindfulness, peace, peace work, social change, Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnam, war		I fell in love with Sister Khong.
	Interbeing: Commentaries on the Tiep Hien Precepts	Thich Nhat Hanh Hanh, Thich Nhat	1987	activism, Asia, Buddhism, engaged Buddhism, interbeing, mindfulness, peace, social change, Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnam		Brilliant work by the nuns and monks who developed these excellent guidelines for engaged compassionate living. Many thanks.
	Land : a novel	Kyong-ni Pak Pak, Kyong-ni	1996	Asia, change, fiction, folk, Japan, Korea, Korean history
	Native Speaker	Chang-rae Lee Lee, Chang-rae	1995	Asia, fiction, Korea, Korean American
	Confessions of a Mask (New Directions Paperbook)	Yukio Mishima Mishima, Yukio	1958	Asia, Japan
	Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha	Thich Nhat Hanh Hanh, Thich Nhat	1991	Asia, biography, Buddha, Buddhism, spirituality
	Bodhisattva of compassion : the mystical tradition of Kuan Yin	John Blofeld Blofeld, John	1977	Asia, Bodhisattva, Buddhism, China, compassion, Kuan Yin, religion, Taoism
	The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts	Maxine Hong Kingston Kingston, Maxine Hong	1977	Asia, China, Chinatown, girls, women
	Disappearing Moon Cafe	Sky Lee Lee, Sky	1991	Asia, China, Chinatown, Chinese Canadian historical fiction, women
	My Masters Robe: Memories Of A Novice Monk	Thich Nhat Hanh Hanh, Thich Nhat	2003	Asia, autobiography, Buddhism, child autobiography, mindfulness, monks, religious instruction, religious life, Vietnam		Wonderful insight into the life of a young monk.
	A Joyful Path: Community, Transformation and Peace	Thich Nhat Hanh Thich Nhat Hanh	1995	Asia, Buddhism, community, engaged Buddhism, peace, spirituality, Thich Nhat Hanh
	Thomas Merton and Thich Nhat Hanh: Engaged Spirituality in an Age of Globalization	Robert H. King King, Robert H.	2001	Asia, Buddhism, engaged, engaged Buddhism, spirituality, spirituality, Thich Nhat Hanh, THomas Merton, Vietnam
	Curses of the Third Uncle	Paul Yee Yee, Paul	1986	Asia, Canada, China, Chinatown, supernatural, Vancouver, YA
	The jade peony : a novel	Wayson Choy Choy, Wayson	1995	Asia, Canada, China, Chinatown, Vancouver
	Fan shen. = Fanshen : [a documentary of revolution in a Chinese village]	William. [from old catalog] Hinton Hinton, William. [from old catalog]	1974	Asia, China, Communism, revolution
	The Joy Luck Club	Amy Tan Tan, Amy	1989	Asia, China, Chinatown, Chinese American, women
	Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry (Midland Book)	Wu-Chi Liu Liu, Wu-Chi	1990	Asia, China, poetry
	The I Ching or Book of Changes	C.F. Baynes Baynes, C.F.	1967	Asia, Book of Changes, China, fortune telling, I Ching

John Caspell

I was stunned and saddened to hear today that John Caspell has died. He is the brother of my friend Paul, and the only person gently encouraging enough to get me to sing in public in the last fifteen years. A fuzzball of a man, wonderfully matched to his filking partner Brooke Lunderville, fabulous, funny player of guitars, stroker of cats, hugger of people. It is indeed a loss to the speculative fiction community to have him so suddenly gone.

I have stolen this photo of John from his memorial website, put together by Allegra Sloman, and the one below from the site he shared with Brooke, where you can find oodles of their filksongs, lyrics and chords, as well as a good number of mp3s.

My heart goes out to those who knew and loved John, and to you, John, you dear, laughing, lovely man.

Young Adult Books Reviewed by Young Adults

Below are excerpts from the Flamingnet website. The site belongs to Seth, a young adult with a passion for reading and for encouraging reading in other young adults. It is an ambitious project which you writers and readers of YA books will want to check out.

Our Mission

Flamingnet's mission is to promote reading among young adults; making reading more fun by highlighting books that young adults may enjoy and fostering literacy through charitable work.

Background

Flamingnet was created in 2002. When I was in fifth grade, I read many different books. This led me to combine my reading with my father's hobby, computer programming. Gradually I wrote reviews on the books that I read, and my father posted these reviews on the Internet at Flamingnet. After seeing our website, national publishers and authors of young adult literature began asking me to review their books. These publishers include Penguin Books, Scholastic, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Time Warner, and HarperCollins, as well as many other publishers and individual authors. As I received more books to review, Flamingnet began to accept student reviewers from all over the United States to help with the reviews.

Our Mission Flamingnet's mission is to promote reading among young adults; making reading more fun by highlighting books that young adults may enjoy and fostering literacy through charitable work. Background Flamingnet was created in 2002. When I was in fifth grade, I read many different books. This led me to combine my reading with my father's hobby, computer programming. Gradually I wrote reviews on the books that I read, and my father posted these reviews on the Internet at Flamingnet. After seeing our website, national publishers and authors of young adult literature began asking me to review their books. These publishers include Penguin Books, Scholastic, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Time Warner, and HarperCollins, as well as many other publishers and individual authors. As I received more books to review, Flamingnet began to accept student reviewers from all over the United States to help with the reviews. Flamingnet is currently a growing young adult book website, and my father and I are kept very busy spreading the word about our site and working with all the reviewers, underwriters (adult volunteers that assist our student reviewers with their writing), Flamingnet members, authors, publishers, and publicists that have become part of our Flamingnet community. My grandfather in Florida is also very busy sending out letters to libraries telling them about my website. Here are links to awards that have been received by Flamingnet and comments from users about my site. The Website My website is for students between 8 and 18 years old, their parents, grandparents, teachers, and librarians who are looking for books to recommend or buy for their children, grandchildren, students or patrons. Flamingnet has lists of both classic books, as well as new titles, that this age group may find interesting and enjoyable. Our Student Reviewers Over the years, hundreds of young adults have reviewed new and advance books for Flamingnet. Information about how to become a Flamingnet student reviewer and an application are found elsewhere on the site (information and application). Our student reviewers not only get to read new books before they become available in bookstores, they get to keep the books that we send them to review. Flamingnet student reviewers also learn how to express their opinions in writing about what they read. Through our underwriter program, adult volunteers (authors, teachers and librarians) assist our students with their writing skills and provide important feedback in order to encourage them to become better writers. After a student reads and reviews a new book, we ask them to rate each book they review on a scale from 1 - 10 (10 being the best). Flamingnet's TOP CHOICE AWARD is given to books based on this student reviewer rating. We also ask our reviewers about the language and content (drugs, sex, and violence) in the book, and students rate books for content using our Flamingnet Content Rating. Hopefully, their reviews and ratings will help you decide on your choice of books. How To Submit A Book To Flamingnet For Review If you have questions, please send me an email or call.