Cecily Wong
Auteur de Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide
A propos de l'auteur
Cecily Wong is a Chinese-Hawaiian author. She was born on Oahu and raised in Eugene, Oregon. She graduated from Barnard College, where the first pages of her debut novel, Diamond Head, won the Peter S. Prescott Prize for Prose Writing. (Bowker Author Biography)
Œuvres de Cecily Wong
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Oahu, Hawaii, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Eugene, Oregon, USA
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Critiques
I'm ambivalent about this one.
What I liked: The story centers women's voices. Each woman is a fully realized character with a complete backstory. They're all interesting and the audiobook narrators portraying them were excellent!
What I didn't like: The women's lives revolve around men and the men are kind of flat one-dimensional characters, especially Bohai. I never understood what his deal was.
What I liked: The story stretches from the 1890s to the 1960s, spanning three generations, showing how each woman is impacted by her relationship to her parents -- and also how they're impacted by the Boxer Rebellion and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The story moves around in time, putting the pieces of the puzzle together in a mostly satisfying way.
What I didn't like: Sometimes the writing was on the florid side and seemed to meander. Some of the revelations were not so satisfying to me and ultimately the story doesn't offer a lot of hope (at least not the way I read it), particularly when it came to the theme of finding your "fated match."
Overall, I was a little disappointed but I still liked it.… (plus d'informations)
What I liked: The story centers women's voices. Each woman is a fully realized character with a complete backstory. They're all interesting and the audiobook narrators portraying them were excellent!
What I didn't like: The women's lives revolve around men and the men are kind of flat one-dimensional characters, especially Bohai. I never understood what his deal was.
What I liked: The story stretches from the 1890s to the 1960s, spanning three generations, showing how each woman is impacted by her relationship to her parents -- and also how they're impacted by the Boxer Rebellion and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The story moves around in time, putting the pieces of the puzzle together in a mostly satisfying way.
What I didn't like: Sometimes the writing was on the florid side and seemed to meander. Some of the revelations were not so satisfying to me and ultimately the story doesn't offer a lot of hope (at least not the way I read it), particularly when it came to the theme of finding your "fated match."
Overall, I was a little disappointed but I still liked it.… (plus d'informations)
Another internet: the book! Food-related Atlas Obscura entries spun off into Gastro Obscura, blending actual food information, historical factoids, and historical oddities into one coffee table book. A nice browse. North America was definitely disproportionately represented (with regions of the US on a similar standing with whole countries), but AO is a United States based site so that's unsurprising.
This was an extremely interesting and informative book! I enjoyed reading it. I just wish that it had more recipes.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 499
- Popularité
- #49,589
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 22
- ISBN
- 16
- Langues
- 1
I enjoyed this--the storytelling (and excellent narration) pulls you in immediately, and even though I usually struggle a bit when there are more than a handful of characters to keep track of, I'm found the story relatively easy to follow without getting bored. I do agree that it just sort of ends without much happening and I think there was opportunity for a lot more development in the relationships between the women, but overall I liked it. I would read more from this author.… (plus d'informations)