by Leslie Li | Aug 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dear Reader: Welcome to the sixth installment of DOUBLE THUNDER. Thanks to a comment from an avid reader, from now on I will be including a simple “family tree”—the names of the characters together with thumbnail descriptions—to help you keep track of...
by Leslie Li | Aug 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dear Reader— Thank you for returning to my webpage to read the fifth installment of DOUBLE THUNDER. In this excerpt, Bittersweet learns about Hardu’s infatuation with the beautiful aspiring actress Mei-Mei Loy. She also meets Dr. Hwang, the physician in charge...
by Leslie Li | Jul 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Welcome to the fourth installment of DOUBLE THUNDER! It picks up where the third installment left off. Bittersweet continues to read Hardu’s letter where she learns more about the petty criminal who gave her the siming blanket—a man with a penchant for...
by Leslie Li | Jul 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
Welcome to the third installment of DOUBLE THUNDER! The story picks up where it left off at the end of installment #2: Bittersweet learns about Hardu’s life as a ricksha boy and petty criminal—and much else besides—after finding his letter sewn inside a siming...
by Leslie Li | Jul 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Welcome back to the serialized blog of my novel DOUBLE THUNDER, sequel to BITTERSWEET (Tuttle Publishing). If you read the first installment, you were (re)introduced to Bittersweet who, in airing a siming blanket, discovers an epistolary book concealed inside it....