Articles of Interest

Two good articles in this Sunday's Washington Post Magazine. The first is by adoptive mom Jeanne Marie Laskas, writing about how being a parent isn't always what you'd thought it would be:

Motherhood, the Reality Show

The second is about a man, Jhou Lianchun, who grew up as a member of Mao's Red Guard and later became an entrepeneur with a very, uh, interesting line of business:

The Life and Times of Book Idiot Zhou

"Book idiot" is a Chinese term meaning the same thing as a "bookworm".