Way back in January when I created my From the Stacks challenge my mom sent me email (or maybe we talked on the phone?) and started questioning the books on my list. In doing so, she asked whether I had read this or read that and my response was either “No, should I” or “Duh, you don’t read my blog, do you?”
Peony in Love was one of the books she asked about. No, I hadn’t read it. Hell, I didn’t even know Lisa See had a new book. Once I found out, I reserved it. TW read it a couple of weeks ago, I finished it last night.
It was good. Not as good as Snow Flower and the Secret Fan but still very very good.
Lovesick girls. Women poets. Ghosts.
That ghost thing, particularly the hungry ghost thing, was an excellent idea for the lovesick girls/women poets story line that this book follows. Brilliant.
Damn. Peony in Love isn’t as good as Snow Flower…? And I was just thinking of making it next on my list to read.
It still was a fantastic read. Really-read it next.