What are you reading this week of September 6, 2015?

[scarletwoman]

5. Hi, hermetic! Thanks as always for doing this thread!

The Lacuna is definitely a very special book. Having you bringing it up has been making me think I may have to read it again soon. It might be just the thing to move on to when I finally leave Tibet...

I'm near the end of #6 of the Inspector Shan Tibet series, The Lord of Death - only two more books to go. I'm already grieving that there are only two left, I've been so thoroughly wrapped up in these books, in the country and the people, that I can't imagine what other books will ever pull me in and engage so deeply as these books have.

Part of what has taken me so long to read each book is the emotional toll that each one has exacted in my heart, mourning the unending atrocities of the Chinese occupation and ongoing cultural genocide being committed against the Tibetans. It's very hard to read these things - however I am extremely grateful to the author for bearing witness.