No. Actually it was sitting on the list for a long time, and since I'd already read the book I mentioned that it was a wonderful book and it would be ice if someone would validate it--but one person did and returned it saying it hadn't been pre-validated and was missing a lot of words. Then I did take it but I released it when you told me to release books, and I thought maybe you'd take it--but no one else took it so I now have it and am validating it. I'm enjoying reading it again. Communist China was so closed we didn't even get much propaganda about it and the book is very informative in an interesting way about what life was like there, especially for the peasants, in the 60's and 70's. Now I'm enjoying seeing the U.S, through the eyes of young men who have been filled with anti-American propaganda and who could never imagine an airplane, and never ridden in a car, and are seeing the buildings and clean streets and green lawns and luxurious homes for the first time. smile Cindy > Actually, I believe > Mao's Last Dancer has been sitting on someone's Step > 2 page for nearly a > year. > > ____________________________________________________________________________________Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.