Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Tell Me Again
  • Cute Story
  • Good book for adoption
  • Great book for kids and Parents
  • Geat Domestic Adoption children's book
Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born
Jamie Lee Curtis
Manufacturer: Joanna Cotler
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 006024528X

Book Description

Tell me again about the night I was born . . Tell me again how you would adopt me and be my parents... Tell me again about the first time you held me in your arms . .

In asking her mother and father to tell her again about the night of her birth, a young girl shows that it is a cherished tale she knows by heart.

Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell come together once again to create a unique celebration of the love and joy a baby brings into the world. Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born is a heartwarming story, not only of how one child is born but of how a family is born.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Tell Me Again.......2007-09-03

This is a great book for any adoptive parents to read to their child/ children. It tells a story kids want to hear and tells it with a sense of humor (they thought their new screaming baby was a potential opera star)and great characters like the dog who was adopted too and has his own family tree. We read this book to our son regularly.

5 out of 5 stars Cute Story.......2007-08-25

My daughter loves this book, lots of good pics and humor. While she doesn't understand adoption at age 3 yet, it won't be such a surprise with books like this one.

4 out of 5 stars Good book for adoption.......2007-07-02

I love this series of books, but I bought this one by mistake. It's about adoption which doesn't apply to my children. Great for adopted children!

5 out of 5 stars Great book for kids and Parents.......2007-04-13

This book includes so much about the adoption story, yet it is simple enough for young children to understand. The illustrations are great fun for the parents and will keep this book as one of your child's favorites as they grow older and can understand the humor. No adoption story is going to echo your exact experience, but it is important that your child understand that there are as many different adoption stories as there are people in the world. We adopted our daughter through domestic adoption, but I am sure to read my daughter stories about international adoptions, too. Only reading to her about domestic adoptions would be like telling her the only country that exists in the world in the United States. The common thread here is adoption.

5 out of 5 stars Geat Domestic Adoption children's book.......2006-12-06

Our son age 5 and daughter age 3 were both adopted at birth within the U.S. They love this book and our son calls it "our adoption story book". It helps promote talking with your child about their story and how you may have gone through those very steps when they were born. We started reading this book very early on to our children to help introduce them to adoption, it also helps mom and dad to talk about it too. I beleive that this is one of the top children's adoption books that we own.
Tell It Again!
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Storytelling is easy
Tell It Again!
Shirley C. Raines , and Rebecca Isbell
Manufacturer: Gryphon House
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0876592000

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Grades K - 3. Eighteen children's stories feature tips and tricks that can capture the attention of young children. It's easy, just read the story, noting the hints and tips (when to raise your voice or make a funny face). Put the book away, pick up the outline with story points, and spin your tale. Extend the story with dozens of activities specially created to fit each story.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Storytelling is easy.......2000-03-28

It's a useful book for parents who want to share excitement in storytelling. We can call it guidance. It always gives some tips, questions, and story activities for each story. By reading the stories, you can open your children mind up toward moral values. The stories teach children to be confident with them, to be wits, to appreciate differences and to like music. Probably, the one you have to need is to be proficient in telling the stories. But don't worry, because the book will guide you. You just practice it. Remember that practice makes perfect.
Tell Your Heart to Beat Again: Discover the Good in What You're Going Through
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • The answer to my prayers
Tell Your Heart to Beat Again: Discover the Good in What You're Going Through
Dutch Sheets
Manufacturer: Gospel Light Publications
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When life hasn't turned out as we hoped it would, it's easy to let negative attitudes dominate our thoughts-discouragement, confusion, unbelief, and even bitterness and cynicism. To cope, we often run ahead of God in an effort to change circumstances-or we even run away from Him. But the cure for lost hope is to draw near to God and let Him renew and heal our hearts and restore our faith. Drawing on scriptural teaching, Dutch Sheets shows what God wants to reveal to his children during difficult times. The barren places can become the holy places, just as Moses' 40 years in the desert culminated in God revealing Himself within the burning bush. God wants to stir our faith during hard times and show Himself in ever greater ways so that we are transformed, renewed and ready to go to new levels of service for Him.

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5 out of 5 stars The answer to my prayers.......2003-12-22

I came across this book while in treatment for a serious illness, when I had just about lost all hope in life and in myself. When I began to read, it was as if a light was lit inside of my heart. Pastor Sheets showed me that I was suffering from Hope Deferred, and that I needed to let God back into my life, to trust, believe, and have faith, and most importantly, to regain HOPE, hope that my life could improve, and that God would guide me down the right paths. And he has! No medications, doctors, or therapists have helped as much as simply opening my heart to God and having hope! This book was a blessing, and I pray that everyone who reads it is as moved as I was. Praise God, be happy, and "get busy livin'"!
Tell It Again! 2: More Easy-To-Tell Stories With Activities for Young Children (Tell It Again)
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    A Wodehouse Miscellany & William Tell Told Again
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      P. G. Wodehouse
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      Aham Gonna Tell You Again, Dat Boudraux Ain't Me, It's Ma Cousin.
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • Go Baton Rouge! :)
      Aham Gonna Tell You Again, Dat Boudraux Ain't Me, It's Ma Cousin.
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      This work is a sequel of Larry Boudraux's first book, "Dat Boudreaux Ain't Me, It's Ma Cousin". It is a very funny family orientated Cajun humor book with 150 stories told in a Cajun dialect. It also contains a Cajun dictionary and some good basic Cajun recipes.

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Go Baton Rouge! :).......2002-12-15

      I am also from Louisiana and have been to Baton Rouge many times, and I think it's wonderful that someone from Louisiana has written two books full of Boudreaux jokes and stories. Everyone should read these, because you just have to love the Cajun culture in them! Some of my favorites from the first (Dat Boudreaux Ain't Me, It's Ma Cousin) are when Boudreaux meets the devil ("Eet is STILL not as hot here as South Louisiana on a good July day!") and when Boudreaux decides to change his name (His name is Poo Poo Boudreaux and he wants the judge to change it to Poo Poo Fontenot!). I just got an autographed copy of this book from Hammond and can't wait to read it! I hope that Larry keeps making Boudreaux books!
      William Tell Told Again
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • A Simple Tale Told Simply, By A Master
      • Reminiscent of _1066 and All That_, but without the accuracy or humor
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      P. G. Wodehouse
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      Friesshardt and Leuthold lay on the ground beside the pole, feeling very sore and bruised, and thought that perhaps, on the whole, they had better stay there. There was no knowing what the crowd might do after this, if they began to fight again. So they lay on the ground and made no attempt to interfere with the popular rejoicings. What they wanted, as Arnold of Sewa might have said if he had been there, was a few moments' complete rest. Leuthold's helmet had been hammered with sticks until it was over his eyes and all out of shape, and Friesshardt's was very little better.

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      Friesshardt and Leuthold lay on the ground beside the pole, feeling very sore and bruised, and thought that perhaps, on the whole, they had better stay there. There was no knowing what the crowd might do after this, if they began to fight again. So they lay on the ground and made no attempt to interfere with the popular rejoicings. What they wanted, as Arnold of Sewa might have said if he had been there, was a few moments' complete rest. Leuthold's helmet had been hammered with sticks until it was over his eyes and all out of shape, and Friesshardt's was very little better.

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      5 out of 5 stars A Simple Tale Told Simply, By A Master.......2006-07-22

      This early example of Wodehouse's whimsy is perfect for reading aloud to a child before bedtime, or for enjoying ones' self no matter the age. The tale of Tell is not well known by many these days-- learn a little history (well, legend) and enjoy Wodehouse's always- sparkling prose and verse in this extended fable.

      One hundred years later, he's still hard to beat for humor.

      2 out of 5 stars Reminiscent of _1066 and All That_, but without the accuracy or humor.......2006-01-22

      The basic conceit of Wodehouse's part of this book was to tell a version of the legend of William Tell as if all the characters were ordinary English idiots of the early twentieth century. The effect is rather like that of _1066 and All That_, but without the accuracy, and hence without the humor. Wodehouse's prose was written to accompany verse by John W. Houghton, which in turn was written to accompany illustrations by Philip Dadd. I haven't seen the illustrations, but the verse is much worse than Wodehouse's prose; I'm sure he could could have done it better himself. Wodehouse's style was quite good even early in his career, so the book is readable; it's just not worth reading if you can read his later work instead.

      5 out of 5 stars An early masterpiece.......2001-08-15

      One of Wodehouse's earliest efforts, this is a must-own for any Wodehouse fan. Still written in the days when the master was doing school tales, one can see precusors of that incredible ability that Wodehouse had, to take the English language to places few others could have imagined it could go to. A simple tale of good triumphing over evil - it is one of those rare Wodehouses (probably the only one) in which a character dies. In his later & much more celebrated efforts, one got the feeling that all his characters were ageless & immortal.
      Baby Love Library: The Runaway Bunny, Tell Me Again, You're Just What I Need
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        Baby Love Library: The Runaway Bunny, Tell Me Again, You're Just What I Need
        Margaret Wise Brown
        Manufacturer: Harpercollins Childrens Books
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        Is there a baby in the house? Well then, by all means, get reading! Collected here are three warm, love-centric board books in one happy package. The unmistakable theme is the very particular, very tender kind of love parents have for their young children. Margaret Wise Brown's classic The Runaway Bunny fills small children with a glowing sense of security as the baby bunny tests Mom's love--and finds it completely sound. In Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born, by Jamie Lee Curtis, a little girl begs to be told one more time about the night her parents adopted her as a newborn. The emotions shared in this touching story are in no way limited to adoptive families. Every family has their own special memories of that one miraculous day when a child enters their lives. Finally, award-winning author Ruth Krauss brings another tale of true love with this updated edition of the classic The Bundle Book: You're Just What I Need. A child hides under the blankets while the mother muses about what this strange bundle could be: A monkey? A bundle of carrots? Every child will recognize this most delightful game and giggle along. The set is an ideal gift for new parents or anyone with beloved young ones who like to visit. (Baby to preschool) --Emilie Coulter

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        Three board books celebrating the love of parents for their babies are now packaged together as a wonderful gift for Baby. Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born, You're Just What I Need, and The Runaway Bunny are the perfect way to say "I love you" to the baby in your life.

        Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born
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          Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born

          Manufacturer: Scholastic Inc.
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          ASIN: 0590032364
          Tell Me Again How the White Heron Rises and Flies Across the Nacreous River at Twilight Toward the Distant Islands (New Directions Paperbook, No 677)
          Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
          • Inconsistent, but when it's good, it's very very good.
          Tell Me Again How the White Heron Rises and Flies Across the Nacreous River at Twilight Toward the Distant Islands (New Directions Paperbook, No 677)
          Hayden Carruth
          Manufacturer: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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          4 out of 5 stars Inconsistent, but when it's good, it's very very good........2004-07-26

          Hayden Carruth, Tell Me Again How the White Heron Rises Across the Nacreous River at Twilight Towards the Distant Islands (New Directions, 1990)

          I was of the opinion for many years that Hayden Carruth was America's finest living poet. These days, he still ranks, but I often find him more frustrating than anything. He's always straddling the line between real poetry and that vague prose-broken-up-into-lines that is only poetry when maybe a tenth of a percent of writers dabble in it.

          The first section of Tell Me Again is full of failed experiments in attempts at vagueness. Value-words, as opposed to images, abound. Not to say there aren't a few successes, but the majority of them are very much prose broken up into lines.

          Then comes the second section, and all that goes away. One long poem on the death of his mother, Carruth retreats to where all good poets find their best work; the image. It would, for most people, be impossible to write a poem on such an event (especially one as long as this) without straying into the land of judgment and value, and to be sure, Carruth does on a number of occasions. But here, it works, and I can't for the life of me figure out why. Maybe it's because the poem is so rooted in memories (which are, of course, naked image). "Mother" is another of those poems written that make Carruth sound as if he could do no wrong ("Ray," written soon after this, is another; it can be found in Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991, and is must reading for any Carruth fan who's never had the pleasure). But rather than there really being a high pint of his career (if he had one, the late eighties and early nineties would be it), this seems another example of Carruth's ability to let fly with a real monster every once in a while, an ability that has stayed with him throughout his career, from the earliest books to the most recent.

          Hayden Carruth is without doubt a fine author. Tell Me Again is a good book, certainly better than 99% of the books of poetry out there. But what makes is worth seeking out and buying is "Mother," the long poem that comprises the book's second section. A definite must-read. *** ½

          Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America (Nation of Newcomers)
          Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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          • A moving and eye-opening account
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          Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America (Nation of Newcomers)
          Ji-Yeon Yuh
          Manufacturer: NYU Press
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          Release Date: 2004-04-01

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          "Yuh has composed a complex, provocative, and compassionate portrayal of the experiences of Korean military brides from the 1950s through the 1990s. . . . Delving into how these women face isolation and alienation from both Korean and US societies because of their transnational status, Yuh's masterful history demonstrates that these women have resisted perceptions of both societies and forged communities based on their claiming Korean and US identities as Korean military brides. A wonderful resource... Highly recommended."
          —Choice

          "Ji-Yeon Yuh's book poignantly illustrates the human costs and benefits of militarized migration in the context of American-Korean relations."
          —The Journal of Asian Studies

          "Impeccably researched and seamlessly executed."
          —Bitch Magazine

          "IThis is one of the most compelling books I have read this year...Ji-Yeon Yuh's account is alternately heart breaking and inspiring."
          — Comparative/World

          "Ji-Yeon Yuh uses a wealth of sources, especially moving oral histories, to tell an important, at times heartbreaking, story of Korean military brides. She takes us beyond the stereotypes and reveals their roles within their families, communities, and Korean immigration to the U.S. Without ignoring their difficult lives, Yuh portrays these women's agency and dignity with skill and compassion."
          —K. Scott Wong, Williams College

          "Ji-Yeon Yuh's study is to be commended on several counts, not the least of which is the Â`unique prismÂ' (dust jacket) she gives the contemporary reader into the social and cultural contract between Korea and the United States, clearly a template that we would be advised to heed in these troubled times."
          — The Journal of American History

          "By studying the lives and history of Korean Â`military brides,Â' Ji-Yeon Yuh pays tribute to an important group that has not received the understanding, attention, and respect that it deserves. Full of compelling stories, Beyond the Shadow of the Camptowns is sure to inspire new ways of thinking about U.S. and especially immigration history, as well as Asian American and Asian history."
          —Elaine Kim, University of California at Berkeley

          "Where do marriage, diaspora, racism and the politics of global alliances converge? In the dreams and dailiness of the thousands of Korean women living in the United States today. Ji-Yeon Yuh's engaging and revealing book shows us that by listening attentively to the Korean women married to white and black American men, we can become a lot smarter about the realities of globalized living."
          —Cynthia Enloe, author of Maneuvers: the International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives

          "Beyond the Shadoe of Camptown is a readable and poignant piece of scholarship. There is much worth praising in this book."
          —Brandon Palmer, University of Hawaii at Manoa"In general, the fluid writing style demonstrates Yuh's background in journalism, and helps explain why this work made its way from dissertation to hardcover so rapidly. It is a study that demands attention from scholars of foreign relations and migration between Korea and the United States, and deserves attention from ethnic studies scholars and immigration scholars as well."—Journal of American Ethnic History

          " Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America, immigration historian Ji-Yeon Yuh explores how Korean women relate to American men in these cross-cultural relationships, and how the military link between the dominant U.S. and subservient Korea tends to complicate their marriages, already challenging for many other reasons, with a dose of international politics as well."
          —Korean Quarterly

          "Through compelling oral histories, she traces the lives of women form successive generations of brides."
          —Chronicle of Higher Education

          Since the beginning of the Korean War in 1950, nearly 100,000 Korean women have immigrated to the United States as the wives of American soldiers. Based on extensive oral interviews and archival research, Beyond the Shadow of the Camptowns tells the stories of these women, from their presumed association with U.S. military camptowns and prostitution to their struggles within the intercultural families they create in the United States.

          Historian Ji-Yeon Yuh argues that military brides are a unique prism through which to view cultural and social contact between Korea and the U.S. After placing these women within the context of Korean-U.S. relations and the legacies of both Japanese and U.S. colonialism vis á vis military prostitution, Yuh goes on to explore their lives, their coping strategies with their new families, and their relationships with their Korean families and homeland. Topics range from the personal—the role of food in their lives—to the communal the efforts of military wives to form support groups that enable them to affirm Korean identity that both American and Koreans would deny them.

          Relayed with warmth and compassion, this is the first in-depth study of Korean military brides, and is a groundbreaking contribution to Asian American, women's, and "new" immigrant studies, while also providing a unique approach to military history.

          Customer Reviews:

          3 out of 5 stars an interesting treatment of another aspect of conflict.......2005-04-10

          Beginning with the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910, followed by its replacement by the United States in 1945, the military governments established a series of bases, and from around these bases grew camptowns, a section of businesses that offered everything from souvenirs to alcohol to prostitution. For her own extended metaphor, Yuh refers to the shadow, or influence, that is cast by these camptowns not only across the Korean landscape but also within the Korean people, most specifically the women who worked, often as indentured servants, within these camptowns and went on to marry soldiers. Yuh makes explicit her change in referring to these women as military brides over war brides. This does not obfuscate, however, the historical value of war brides as being equivalent to war booty and hence configured more as property, even as the remnants of this idea manifest in certain social attitudes (i.e., domestic subservience) that many of the American servicemen may have had toward their Korean wives.

          The use of personal case studies set against the backdrop of US military policy in Korea and social attitudes both in the United States as well as Korea shows that these women lived in a perpetual state of dual existence, in many ways no longer being recognized as completely Korean and unable to be regarded as completely American. This concept of identity is made more complex as Yuh traces out some elements of the Japanese occupation of the Korean peninsula, particularly those aspects of the occupation that forced Korean children to adopt Japanese names and learn Japanese language (spoken and written) and history, thus distancing them from their own Korean heritage, a displacement that would be further complicated by those who married American soldiers.

          Since the research on Korean military brides is finite, Yuh's study presents some intriguing insights on a segment of the population that is constantly negotiating the preservation of its ethnic heritage and identity while it adjusts its assimilation into American society. This is particularly important at a time when community and ethnic identity in America finds itself increasingly transformed by world events, such as recent developments with nuclear proliferation in North Korea.

          5 out of 5 stars Powerful and Well Written.......2003-10-06

          As the author points out, there is very little work on international military wives, and Korean military wives in particular. By such a logic, this book is a welcome project indeed.

          Essentially, Yuh Ji-Yeon sets out to make sense of why Korean women set out to marry American [military] men along with the consequences of such decisions. What becomes apparent throughout this book is the gendered set of relations in both US-Korean and soldier-wife relations. While many Korean women may seek American husands (especially those tricked and coerced into camptown USA) in order to escape Korean societal restrictions and shape better lives for themselves, many American men seek Asian wives in order to fulfill the ultimate Orientalist fantasy of Asian women as meek, erotic, and subservient. Through numerous interviews, Yuh finds out that many of the hopes that Korean military wives bring with them to America become easily dashed as they experience racism and cultural colonization. These Korean wives (many of whom are societal outcasts) thus become marginalized, their identities stolen from them as they are neither accepted for their cultural value by either their own indigenous community and the new American community. While such wives try hard to acculturate themselves to the demands of American life, suffering and pain continues to follow them, and in some cases poverty despite the alllure and so-called attainability of the great American dream. Perhaps even more important, Yuh makes clear that not all Korean wives are former camptown girls. Such simplistic stereotypes carried by the American public is damaging in creating pejorative connotations of the "Korean wife." Furthermore, even those wives who are former camptown girls should not be condescended. Being a prostitute is not exactly a free choice in Korea. Moreover, why should camptown girls be discriminated and labeled whore when the American soldiers who frequent red-light districts are sometimes actively encouraged by their commanders and more often than not treated with minor slaps on the hand for engaging in prostitution. Sadly, US military policy discriminates against the supply rather than dealing with the demand in prostitution. So much for the high morals of the US military.

          In this context, many Korean wives act out a latent form of resistance. Their husbands and in-laws may forbid them to speak Korean, to eat Korean food, to teach their children Korean culture, but in the privacy of their homes when husbands and children are out, these women cultivate friendships with other Korean wives, watch Korean movies, and make attempts to demand the respect that they undoubtedly deserve. In short, while Korean wives may be denied meaningful relationships with their husbands and children due to lack of support in learning the English language and subsequently sharing the Korean language, these women are basically trying to survive and separate themselves from their sad and sometimes lurid pasts.

          "Beyond the Shadow of Camptown" is a book that anyone in the military, and especially any soldier thinking of taking an Asian wife or mail order bride should read. Conversely, this book should also be read by foreign women around US military bases worldwide, who are thinking that a green card is an entry into a better life. This book shows the complexities of immigration, and of negotiating two different contexts. Truly, this book is very powerful and more importantly supported by interviews and other forms of empirical evidence that even those in self-denial can't rebut. Last but not least, we must consider the stories of each Korean wife that has come to the US. Their stories deserve to be heard and remembered.

          4 out of 5 stars A moving and eye-opening account.......2003-05-17

          This book fills a need by covering Korean women who married American military men and their experiences in life, the prejudices they've encountered from other Koreans and white Americans, and how they stake out a place of meaning for themselves through church activities with other Korean military wives.

          The author describes the women's family and educational background as well as how they met their husbands. Although a few were sex workers in Korea, the majority were not.

          It seems that it's not common for Korean military wives to have Korean girlfriends whose husbands are Korean as well. I found that surprising because I grew up in a Korean community of Jehovah's Witnesses where my mother, a Korean woman married to a Korean man, had (and still has) many girlfriends who were Korean military wives.

          I would have appreciated a religious history of these women, whether they were always Christian or became such after meeting their husbands.

          2 out of 5 stars Confusing.......2003-04-25

          After reading this book, which reads more like a piece of propaganda work, I'm not sure whether these poor women were actual brides or "comfort women" (no disrespect intended... I'm trying to be skeptical).
          Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America.(Book Review): An article from: The Oral History Review
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            Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America.(Book Review): An article from: The Oral History Review
            May Kay Quinlan
            Manufacturer: Oral History Association
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            Release Date: 2005-07-31

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            Title: Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America.(Book Review)
            Author: May Kay Quinlan
            Publication: The Oral History Review (Refereed)
            Date: December 22, 2004
            Publisher: Oral History Association
            Volume: 31 Issue: 1 Page: 97(3)

            Article Type: Book Review

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