Comments on: Has Your Family Read It? – Guest Post by Mei-Ling Hopgood http://www.devourerofbooks.com/2009/06/has-your-family-read-it-guest-post-by-mei-ling-hopgood/ Memoirs of a Ravenous Reader Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:01:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Melissa - Shhh I'm Reading http://www.devourerofbooks.com/2009/06/has-your-family-read-it-guest-post-by-mei-ling-hopgood/comment-page-1/#comment-7596 Melissa - Shhh I'm Reading Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:00:15 +0000 http://www.devourerofbooks.com/?p=1733#comment-7596 I just received this book and can't wait to get started on it. Thanks for the great guest post. .-= Melissa - Shhh I'm Reading´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ShhhImReading/~3/sJEY0hyAQ8M/review-blue-diary-by-james-levine.html" rel="nofollow">Review: The Blue Diary by James Levine</a> =-. I just received this book and can’t wait to get started on it. Thanks for the great guest post.
.-= Melissa – Shhh I’m Reading´s last blog ..Review: The Blue Diary by James Levine =-.

]]> By: Beth F http://www.devourerofbooks.com/2009/06/has-your-family-read-it-guest-post-by-mei-ling-hopgood/comment-page-1/#comment-7528 Beth F Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:27:26 +0000 http://www.devourerofbooks.com/?p=1733#comment-7528 Wow. How frustrating. I'm so bad with languages, even the romance languages, that I can't imagine getting proficient enough in Holo to carry on the type of conversation you crave. Despite that, how wonderful that you have such a diverse and international family. .-= Beth F´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BethFishReads/~3/FamiXG3Wn6U/thursday-tea-july-2-kiss-of-shadows-by.html" rel="nofollow">Thursday Tea (July 2): A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. Hamilton</a> =-. Wow. How frustrating. I’m so bad with languages, even the romance languages, that I can’t imagine getting proficient enough in Holo to carry on the type of conversation you crave. Despite that, how wonderful that you have such a diverse and international family.
.-= Beth F´s last blog ..Thursday Tea (July 2): A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. Hamilton =-.

]]> By: Kathy http://www.devourerofbooks.com/2009/06/has-your-family-read-it-guest-post-by-mei-ling-hopgood/comment-page-1/#comment-7466 Kathy Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:07:49 +0000 http://www.devourerofbooks.com/?p=1733#comment-7466 It sounds like a very emotionally frustrating time for the author. .-= Kathy´s last blog ..<a href="http://bermudaonion.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/we-have-winners/" rel="nofollow">We have winners!</a> =-. It sounds like a very emotionally frustrating time for the author.
.-= Kathy´s last blog ..We have winners! =-.

]]> By: The Kool-Aid Mom http://www.devourerofbooks.com/2009/06/has-your-family-read-it-guest-post-by-mei-ling-hopgood/comment-page-1/#comment-7464 The Kool-Aid Mom Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:08:50 +0000 http://www.devourerofbooks.com/?p=1733#comment-7464 I have a great deal of understanding for what Mei-Ling is saying. My ex-husband was adopted, and his birthmother adopted a son 20 years after giving him and his brother away. I don't know if that sticks a little for Mei-Ling, but I know it was always a sore spot for my ex. And I both love and respect, as well as find it frustrating and ifuriating at times, the Asian culture of family. The importance of Face, as well as their lesser value of truth than we have in the West, makes it hard to ever get inside. After more than 10 years, I can still feel like an outsider at times. Thank you Jen :-) I really enjoyed this post. And thanks to Mei-Ling for sharing with us. I have a great deal of understanding for what Mei-Ling is saying. My ex-husband was adopted, and his birthmother adopted a son 20 years after giving him and his brother away. I don’t know if that sticks a little for Mei-Ling, but I know it was always a sore spot for my ex.

And I both love and respect, as well as find it frustrating and ifuriating at times, the Asian culture of family. The importance of Face, as well as their lesser value of truth than we have in the West, makes it hard to ever get inside. After more than 10 years, I can still feel like an outsider at times.

Thank you Jen :-) I really enjoyed this post. And thanks to Mei-Ling for sharing with us.

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