I haven't been reading as much lately, I haven't had as much good stuff on request at the library come in and I haven't been sure what to request.

So if any readers have books to suggest, I would be definitely interested in good summer reading!

I read a book over the long weekend - Blackfly Season by Giles Bunt.  This was a well written mystery that takes place in a thinly disguised Thunder Bay.  It was a great summer mystery.

I just finished Midnight at the Dragon Cafe.  It was an excellent novel, especially for a debut novel.  Midnight at the Dragon Cafe portrays the life of a Chinese family that immigrates to a small Ontario town in the 1950's to run a Chinese restaurant.  More than anything, this novel made me realize how isolating life was for the first Asian immigrants who settled in small towns, couldn't speak English and had children who bridged both worlds, the private world at home and the public, Canadian world of going to school. 

Also, like the novel The Jade Peony, this novel illustrates how difficult Canada's immigration policies, restricting women to immigrate for many years, made family life for Chinese Canadians.