Since I forgot my camera, I'll just jump into our next books:
Shanghai Girls by Lisa SeeMay and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai in the mid-1930s, are beautiful, sophisticated, and well-educated, but their family is on the verge of bankruptcy. Hoping to improve their social standing, May and Pearl’s parents arrange for their daughters to marry “Gold Mountain men” who have come from Los Angeles to find brides.
But when the sisters leave China and arrive at Angel’s Island (the Ellis Island of the West)--where they are detained, interrogated, and humiliated for months--they feel the harsh reality of leaving home. And when May discovers she’s pregnant the situation becomes even more desperate. The sisters make a pact that no one can ever know.
A novel about two sisters, two cultures, and the struggle to find a new life in America while bound to the old, Shanghai Girls is a fresh, fascinating adventure from beloved and bestselling author Lisa See.
Chapter One of the book.
Check this video out!
The second book, for those interested, is Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage by Elizabeth Gilbert.
For the Eat, Pray, Love haters in the group, I found this interesting article for you to read (it's not long).
And for the lovers (and the haters too), here's the trailer for the upcoming movie! I think it looks fun (and Javier Bardem plays Felipe... interesting). Here's the link.
Our next meeting will be in celebration of our 4-year existence. We will meet Sunday, June 6th at the Catamaran Hotel for brunch and book talk around 11am, and then for those interested (and we hope that's all of you), we are going to hit up the spa facilities, which are $25 (treatments are extra). So, you have 7 weeks to save up (that's $3.57 per week).
Thanks!
Karina
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