New Items in the Gift Shop

Check out some of the new items in the Birthplace Gift Shop.  In addition to note cards and other items featuring images of the Birthplace, we've now carry Good Earth Organic Tea, and it has already proven to sell well.  Most varieties of tea originated in China, India or elsewhere in Asia thousands of years ago, so it was astute for this company to take their name from Pearl Buck's best selling novel.  It's delicious tea, too!

What's on Your Summer Reading List?

The Good Earth is on the Globe & Mail summer reading list. 
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Toronto's Globe and Mail has published a selection of its "Reader's picks for sizzling summer reads" and Pearl Buck's The Good Earth is one of the recommendations, in this the 80th anniversary of its receipt of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.  Arguably the most prestigious prize in American letters, did you know that the Pulitzer Prize in a category can even be withheld in any given year if no work is deemed worthy of the prize?  Globe and Mail reader Mary N wrote:

The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck. Although it is more than 80 years old, the story is wonderful. I can read this over and over again. The characters are strong and the life lessons still apply today. 

Clearly the book still resonates and sells.  Oprah's Book Club published a new edition in 2004, and a new "Enriched Classic Edition was released by Simon & Schuster just a year later.  This type of reading list appears often at the beginning of summer.  Some contain only recently published books, but it is also common to publish lists generated by readers, authors, or other famous people.  Have you seen other lists with books by or about Pearl Buck on them?