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Summary: elegant and lush
Review: I so enjoyed this beautiful memoir. I felt a part of the Thai culture and landscape. There are many charming scenes and deliberately precious characters. I was sad to leave the story when it ended. The perspective of the narrator is young- that infuriating mix of superiority and naivete. But the voice was fresh and interesting, and I enjoyed getting to know her.
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Summary: this book tells it like it is.... it flows, like thailand
Review: karen has captured the spirit, the calm, the beauty, the mystique, the sensitivity and the occasional frustration of rural thailand. her'sojourn' of her year in denchai is storytelling at its best. my 6 days and nights in a village in north-eastern thailand cannot compare, even remotely, to her experience in the north... but i know a little about how she feels about these marvellous people. she knows how lucky she was. if you have been to thailand then the reading of this book guarantees your return. never been? read this book and i guarantee that your first visit is imminent. the most enjoyable book that i have 'consumed'.
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Summary: I visited Thailand through this book
Review: Superb book. I couldn't put it down - bought it yesterday & read until I fell asleep then finished this morning. I felt as though I was there, travelling with her. She has a great sense of humor that is splashed throughout the book. I truly had a sense of how she felt on her year long visit there. I'm so glad she shared her memories.
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Summary: I visited Thailand through this book
Review: Superb book. I couldn't put it down - bought it yesterday & read until I fell asleep then finished this morning. I felt as though I was there, travelling with her. She has a great sense of humor that is splashed throughout the book. I truly had a sense of how she felt on her year long visit there. I'm so glad she shared her memories.
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Summary: Exceptional!
Review: This is by far the best written book I have ever read. The Dream of a Thousand Lives chronicles the year Connelly spends as an exchange student in Asia. Tired of "the marvels of Calgary," Connelly sets off to Thailand with curiosity and a briefcase full of licorice and loose-leaf. As Connelly explains, the ants devoured the licorice in the first week, but the paper survived. Connelly never resorts to decorative travel writing, but sticks to a witty and unfailingly honest account of her time in Thailand. The book, (originally titled "Touch the Dragon" in Canada) consists of a chronological collection of the author's journal entries, detailing her time in Denchai (living at a the Thai Liquor Store owned by her first host family) to her travels to Bangkok and Chang Mai. Connelly possesses a rare ability to convey the strange labyrinth of lives and experiences she encounters in the small farming Village of Denchai into a lyrical fluid narrative. This is a book that you will not be able to put down.
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Summary: elegant and lush
Review: This is by far the best written book I have ever read. The Dream of a Thousand Lives chronicles the year Connelly spends as an exchange student in Asia. Tired of "the marvels of Calgary," Connelly sets off to Thailand with curiosity and a briefcase full of licorice and loose-leaf. As Connelly explains, the ants devoured the licorice in the first week, but the paper survived. Connelly never resorts to decorative travel writing, but sticks to a witty and unfailingly honest account of her time in Thailand. The book, (originally titled "Touch the Dragon" in Canada) consists of a chronological collection of the author's journal entries, detailing her time in Denchai (living at a the Thai Liquor Store owned by her first host family) to her travels to Bangkok and Chang Mai. Connelly possesses a rare ability to convey the strange labyrinth of lives and experiences she encounters in the small farming Village of Denchai into a lyrical fluid narrative. This is a book that you will not be able to put down.
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