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Books 2009: a fabulous dragon
Books 2009: 103
103. Daniel Fox, Dragon in Chains.
I have stayed awake in this after-midnight to finish this book. I started it a little over three hours ago. It is lucid, luminous, fabulous, and I do not think I would have appreciated it half so much if I had not just finished reading a book on Chinese history: that cultural milieu is the very heart of this book, with its fleeing boy-emperor and its fisher-girl concubine and the jade and the dragon.
Especially the jade and the dragon.
It just sweeps you up and carries you along. Someone tell me what the sequel's name is, and can I have it now?
103. Daniel Fox, Dragon in Chains.
I have stayed awake in this after-midnight to finish this book. I started it a little over three hours ago. It is lucid, luminous, fabulous, and I do not think I would have appreciated it half so much if I had not just finished reading a book on Chinese history: that cultural milieu is the very heart of this book, with its fleeing boy-emperor and its fisher-girl concubine and the jade and the dragon.
Especially the jade and the dragon.
It just sweeps you up and carries you along. Someone tell me what the sequel's name is, and can I have it now?