With the beautiful, powerful, and sexy Madame Chiang Kai-Shek at the center of one of the great dramas of the twentieth century, this is the story of the founding of modern China, starting with a revolution that swept away more than 2,000 years of monarchy, followed by World War II, and ending in eventual loss to the Communists and exile in Taipei. Praised by China scholar Jonathan Spence for “an impressive amount of telling material, drawn from a wide array of sources,” Pakula presents an epic historical tapestry, a wonderfully wrought narrative that brings to life what Americans should know about China—the superpower we are inextricably linked with."
~ The Last Empress on Amazon
All right. All right. As much as I want to break open my copy of Toni Braxton’s memoir, Unbreak My Heart, I have to take a step back. After two years, I finally cracked open my copy of The Last Empress by Hannah Pakula back in October. I got a good 100 pages into the book before I began to feel the swell of tome-size intimidation. Great story, nonetheless. It kept me glued, but I just knew getting through the book was going to take some work. So I put it down for smaller titles in November. And now I’m back at this monster of a read! I’m committed to closing out the year finishing at least another big book. This will be it.
WISH ME LUCK AND NO READING DISTRACTIONS!
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