need some help....fast

[Anthrid]

I was wondering if anyone here could find a website that contains complete chapters of Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. I really, REALLY need to read "Waiting Between the Trees (274-287)" by today and i just noticed i left my book in school over the holidays :( If anyone can please refer me to any website, i'd appreciate it so much. I tried searching for quite a while with no luck. Thanks in advance.

[Sitaram]

http://www.mslit.com/

http://www.mslit.com/details.asp?bookid=0795310730


http://usa.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=160852

Perhaps sparknotes will help also

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/joyluck/index.html

And here is a summary of your reading assignment:

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/joyluck/section7.rhtml

Here is some interesting biographical backround of the author, Amy Tan.

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/tan0bio-1

http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4311

http://www.msu.edu/~palmerjo/atl140/quotes.htm

http://www.butvang.org/ics-uci/public_html/ea/chinese.html

http://members.fortunecity.com/kmarie/joyluck.htm

AND HERE IS A JOY LUCK CLUB MESSAGE BOARD

http://mb.sparknotes.com/mb.epl?b=482&p=11

http://www.stark.kent.edu/women/women's%20lit%20course/tan%20quizzes.htm

[Anthrid]

thank you so much for giving me so many websites....although i need to read the chapter itself, this will help me. Thanks for your help :D

[Sitaram]

Give your circumstances, if it is at all possible financially for you, I would suggest taking a credit card and purchasing a pdf download of the book. Such downloads do not appear to be very expensive.

Keep in mind that books which are much older, and out of copyright protect are available at the gugenheim project,... things like Tolstoy, Doestoevsky, Hardy, etc.

[Taliesin]

And perhaps ask your local library?

[Sitaram]

New Years Weekend? Open Library? Perhaps one is open, but I doubt it. And it sounds like they need it before Monday. If a download of the book costs less than $10, and gas and transportation and time costs money, I would still opt for the credit card and download as a sure fire best bet.

Just out of curiosty, I hopped into my trusty google Tardis time-space travel machine, and found the hours for the largest library in the largest city, and it looks like it will be closed January 2.

http://www.nypl.org/hours/

So, if thats the case with the largest library in the largest city, then, more rural areas offer a gloomier prospect. And even if you find one open, what is the chance they will have a copy of Amy Tan's book which has not been checked out?

I must say, I am age 55, and I have spent a fair amount of time in libraries, but I was never able to depend upon a library to find a book that I really needed. I was never wealthy in life, but I always had enough money to go to the bookstore and buy the books that I needed.

I always went to the library to see what they might have that I would never think to look at, unless I stumbled across it on a shelf. Years ago, I was in a public library, and I opened an expensive art book on ancient Egyptian art. It had a color photograph of a wall painting showing light skinned Egyptians side by side with very dark skinned Egyptians. I thought that was so neat, to see an interracial, multicultural scene from ancient times.

[baddad]

...The Joy luck club...............I would guess that second hand bookstores everywhere may have a copy of this one........