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I like reading books and writing reviews, writing poems and stories and enjoy singing and drama.
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I read Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah about a month ago and, as they say, it was one of those books that you just cannot bear to put down.
It is the story of Adeline's childhood. It is so descriptive you see everything as if you were remembering the whole book with Adeline - That you had known all of her friends and relatives. Her mother died when she was born and so her older brothers and sisters made out that she was bad luck and they made her feel unwanted all of her life.
All through this wonderfully told book Adeline is rejected by practically everyone who knows her. Her father re - marries to a cruel but beautiful and rich woman who he has two children with. It is amazing how obvious they made it that these two children were more important to them than Adeline and her mother's children - They got much more expensive clothes, they got to have first choice of everyhing, they got to share a whole floor of their house which the other children were forbidden to go on. They even had the family dog trained only to obey them!!!
All in all,I would definetly recommend this amazing and sad book to absolubetelly anyone.
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