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Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

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I learned to read when I was three, so I skipped right over picture books and didn't learn to appreciate art in books until much later.

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American and Vietnamese characters alike leap to life through the voice and eyes of a tenyearold girl-a protagonist so strong, loving, and vivid I longed to hand her a wedge of freshly cut papaya.

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Good humor pokes fun at the powerful — not the weak.

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It’s a lovely adaptation that honors Lois Lowry’s vision and authority…the film…illuminates and explores the beauty, danger and pain of our free, creative lives. Plenty to talk about in families and other communities. Go see it.

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We adults all stay sixteen or so in some corner of the soul.

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Books have always been my home. I ransacked the library regularly from the time we moved to the States. I read on the fire escape. I read at the dinner table. I read late into the night in my room. This unhindered foraging and feasting on books - away from controlling, condemning eyes - empowered me to identify and resist misogyny, xenophobia, shadism, and other forms of injustice.

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