Ron Mertens’ blog

Avid readers of my blog (hey mom!) know that I usually blog on books I read. The good ones, anyway. Here’s the ones I read in Chengdu. I read all of them in Hebrew, by the way.

• Long Lost, Harlan Coben. OK, it’s a Harlan Coben book, which is pretty lame. But it was a OK read for the flight to Beijing.
• The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck: (thanks Guy for getting us this book!). A wonderful book, about life in China before the communist revolution (probably 1900 or so). A must read!
• Iz’a Mia, Oshrat Kotler: A really nice Israeli book. 3 Generations of women, originally from Bulgaria, making bad choices in men.
• The Jewish dog, Asher Kravitz: Michal says this is ‘holocaust lite’ – and she’s rather right. The hero in this story (and the storyteller) is a dog. Nice.
• Right Ho, Jeeves ,P. G. Wodehouse: Funny British aristocrat humor. I loved it.
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer: A very nice book talking about life in Guernsey island (one of the Channel islands) during WWII. My mom says it’s a “woman’s book”  but I liked it anyway.
• Night train to Lisbon, Pascal Mercier: A Swiss schoolteacher heads for Lisbon, trying to find details on a Portuguese philosopher that he reads about in a book. It’s a strange mix of a travel-book (well, almost) and a lot of philosophy. Sounds boring? It was one of the best books I read in years. Go read it!

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