Word of Blog Book Finds: The End of East

I have a growing Wish List and TBR pile because of book blogs. Whenever I add a book to my list in Bookpedia, I add the URL of the blog that brought the book to my attention (that way I can refresh my memory as to why it’s on the list).

I’ve decided to share my finds and the excellent reviews of my fellow book bloggers each Monday. Leave a comment with a link to your post or a trackback if you decide to play along.

The third book to catch my eye as I skimmed my >120 RSS feeds (yeah, I need to prune) was The End of East by Jen Sookfong Lee mentioned by Erin over at A Book Every Day.

What caught my attention?

This one wasn’t so much a review (since Erin wasn’t finished reading when she posted), but rather a comment on Lee’s writing style (beautiful and poetic) along with an example. This is a book set in a part of the country that I still visit several times each year (in fact, thanks to post-dated blog posts, I’m in that region as you’re reading this). I once lived on the West Coast of Canada and the paragraph of Lee’s writing that Erin posted is so evocative of winters there that I’m interested enough to read Lee’s book.