smurfette wrote:

Magnolia wrote:"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" = Rebecca Skloot - well researched and well written account of a woman who's cancer cells were taken without her knowledge or the knowledge of her family that have since been invaluable to the scienctific community.

Hellooo Mag I read that book too earlier this year, it is interesting to learn about the HELA cells and more vividly, what happened her family and children after she passed away, it was like watching a documentary.

hola, smurfette! long time, no see! hope you have been well, sweets! drop me a line and let me know if you are still stateside!

Good book about China:

Why China Will Never Rule the World by Troy Parfitt

http://www.amazon.com/China-Will-Never- ... 0986803502

Hi everyone, I saw someone post about swapping ebooks. Here is the list of what I on China if people are interested in swapping. I also have around 150 other good books, all in epub. Below are the ones im looking for. Look forward to hear from anyone interested:

Books I have:
Factory Girls
The Party
The Origins of political Order
On China - Kissinger


Books im looking for
The Opium War - Julia Lovell
Tide Players - Jianying Zha
Beijing WElcomes you - Tom Scocca
Old Shanghai - Lynn Pan
The Fat Years - Chan Koonchung
Generalissimo Chiang and the China he lost
Joe Vinegar (Stilwell)
Red China Blue - Jan Wong
Coming Home Crazy - Bill Holm
Asian Godfathers
War Trash / In the Pond - Ha Jin
Poorly MAde in China
Wolf Totem
The Man on Mao's Right: From Harvard Yard to T1annamun Square, My Life Inside China's Foreign Ministry by Ji Chaozhu
Why China Will Never Rule the World
Tim Clissold's Mr China
Mao last dancer Li Cunxin
Last eunuch of Chin

goodness pointplace! you certainly have a genre! perhaps the site should organize another book swap?

sadly, i've not read any noteworthy books lately. keep re-reading old books. blah.

My uncle, the journalist who shares my love for books and writing, gifted me an old book "A Traveller in China" by Christina Dodwell when he learned that I was moving to China. He read it when he travelled to China and that is what I'm reading now. Can't really give a review since I'm not done with it but I expect it to be enjoyable.

Michael wrote:Currently reading Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurweil... non fiction about where we are going with technology.. some pretty far out conclusions.

it really depends, this book is awful

Danish thriller called "Svinehunde" , by Lotte and Søren Hammer. In english it´s called "The beast within". So gooood if your are in to thrillers.