I have iconoclastic taste in books, so I often don’t recall how I came to choose one novel or another to read. That is not the case with this one. I was intrigued by the title, the name of one of my favorite cities (I’ve been to Taiwan and Taipei five times). Taipei is also […]
For reasons which remain stubbornly unclear, this novel rested on my bookshelf for about 14 years. How could I not have known what a rare and delightful read awaited me? Blue, the heroine-narrator of this tale (I love that her name is Blue; in all its connotations, it’s perfect), whose sense of the ironic, the […]