Dusk, F. Sionil Jose, 1984
- Philippines, #15
- Paperback, $2.00 from Half Price Books
- Read April 2018
- Rating: 5/5
- Recommended for: The clear-sighted and warm-hearted
Dusk
History
Potions and Paper Cranes: a bunch of bad things happen to a bunch of unlikeable people
Potions and Paper Cranes, Lan Fang, 2013
- Indonesia, #21
- Kindle edition, $10
- Read August 2017
- Rating: 2/5
- Recommended for: an additional perspective on race and gender in World War II-era Indonesia (but only if you’ve already read everything else)
The Book of Luelen: The thought collector
The Book of Luelen, Luelen Bernart, 1977 (written in 1934-46)
- Federated States of Micronesia, #1
- Borrowed from SF Library
- Read January 2017
- Rating: 2/5 (BUT: this rating reflects only my reading enjoyment and is not a reflection of the inherent quality of the book. The reason for this distinction will become clear further on)
- Recommended for: ethnobotanical historians and sociocultural anthropologists
Annotations to the Book of Luelen, John L. Fisher, Saul H. Reisenberg, Marjorie G. Whiting (eds.), 1978
- Borrowed from SF Library
- Read January 2017
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: as above, only more so
The Crocodile: Let’s not accept that history is written by the victors, especially when “victors” means former colonial powers who prefer not to acknowledge the abuses perpetrated under their regimes
The Crocodile, Vincent Eri, 1970
- Papua New Guinea, #2
- Borrowed from SF Library
- Read September 2016
- Rating: 3.5/5
- Recommended for: colonial powers ripe for toppling
East Timor: False starts
Funu: The Unfinished Saga of East Timor, Jose Ramos-Horta, 1987
- East Timor, #1
- Borrowed from SF Library
- Rating: 2/5
- Read: April 2017
- Recommended for: Experts
The Crossing, Luis Cardoso, 1997
- East Timor, #2
- Borrowed from SF Library
- Rating: 3/5
- Read: April 2017
- Recommended for: Exiles
Beloved Land: Stories, Struggles, and Secrets from Timor-Leste, Gordon Peake, 2013
- East Timor, #5
- Borrowed from SF Library
- Rating: 2.5/5
- Read: April 2017
- Recommended for: Expositors
Kava in the Blood: Who knew a coup could be so boring?
Kava in the Blood, Peter Thomson, 1999
- Fiji, #5
- Paperback, $12 from Amazon.com
- Rating: 2.5/5
- Read: February 2016
- Recommended for: People with better attention spans than mine
Fragile Paradise: a list
Fragile Paradise, Glynn Christian, 1982
- Pitcairn Islands, #1
- Borrowed from SF Library
- Read: October-December 2015
- Rating: 2/5
- Recommended for: People who read The Mutiny on the Bounty and thought, “That was pretty good, but it could have been drier. And maybe incorporated some family trees or something. Yeah, that would have been perfect.”
Les Immémoriaux
Les Immémoriaux (A Lapse of Memory), Victor Segalen, 1907
- French Polynesia, #1
- Kindle, french edition, free from amazon.com
- Read July 2015
- Rating: 3/5
- Opening Line: Cette nuit là — comme tant d’autres nuits si nombreuses qu’on n’y pouvait songer sans une confusion — Térii le Récitant marchait, à pas mesurés, tout au long des parvis inviolables.
- Recommended for: scholars and cynics (and cynical scholars)
Schindler’s Ark
Schindler’s Ark (aka Schindler’s List), Thomas Kenneally, 1982
- Australia, #16
- Paperback, Alibris.com, $0.99
- Read October 2014
- Rating 3.5/5
- Recommended for: Human beings
Around the World in 2000 Books 