Wednesday, July 09, 2014

Summer reading from me--Black Rice



Black Rice is a Burmese man with very dark skin, almost purple, and almond eyes. What happens when he is captured in an ambush in Burma's delta in 1947, as ethnic strife rages, a year before Burma's Independence from Great Britain? Find out here as K.M. Kaung takes you on a heart stopping journey through life. An intensely flavored pill of a story in 48 pages. A view through oddly made eyes.

"You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, you've got to be taught, from year to year. . . ."

Song lyrics, Rogers and Hammerstein, South Pacific, the Broadway musical.

Daniel Day Lewis--I've seen him in There will be blood and Lincoln and must have seen him in Gandhi and

I definitely saw him in The Last of the Mohicans-- and a sort of NY Mobster story in which he practiced stabbing a pig carcass-- that must...