Meeting up
Just got a call from mellowbug, she’s home (here in PJ!), having arrived at midnight on 24 June. And yup, she and JK flew straight into unbelievably, unbearably hot weather here. She took him for a walk around the old neighbourhood at 7 in the morning, and not 15 minutes later, he was asking to go back to the house.
Hope to meet up with her soon. Already we spoke quite a while on the phone, but it’d be nice to continue doing so face-to-face.
And oh yes, she brought back a book for me. Well, one of two books I’d asked for, the latest by Canadian Chinese writer, Wayson Choy. Just days before her departure, she’d written about reading his earlier book, The Jade Peony, which I’d discovered while in Vancouver in 1999. Since then, I’d not heard of anything new by him, but after reading his name on her blog, I did a search and found that he has since published two new books. So I commented on her blog, and asked her if she could get them for me. Apparently, she made a quick trip back to the bookstore for me and managed to get his latest book, All That Matters, which is the sequel to The Jade Peony.
More on Wayson and the book later …
