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April 20 worth reading recently i am reading a book written by Yi-Fu Tuan-- coming home to china. I am very curious how to put the author's name into chinese characters. I wikipediaed and found it out. 段義孚 he is a son of a nationality officer, who used to wrist-wrestling with Zhou Enlai when Zhou was in Tian Jin. The author's whole family has some connection to NanKai. Tuan left China obviously before 1949. He went to Philipine, then England, and fianlly settled down in the States. he has many thoughts before he headed back to china in 2005. He never had lived in a city for more than 5 years before he moved to Wisconsin. Nostalgia is definately floating during the short period he lingered in China. He still recalls his childhood memories in Chongqing and Tianjin. He also regrets that many landsmarks were demolished hence he barely can wander in the same scenario what he dreamed of while abroad. He is confused about his identity. he is surprised that chinese youngsters dress and love the exactly the same thing on american campus, yet they still stick to their chinese food/lunch box, which is quite interesting. i felt many ways that i am related to his experience, making my reading more pleasant. As an american-chinese, he can easily steps into the cultures and history that are china-related. Also, he has good education and decent profession in the states, which makes him think more openly and deeply. anyways, very interesting book worth reading. i might want to reread Wayson choy's book. February 25 Yu Hua is so funnyIt is quite a relaxing lecture given by Yu Hua, the most renowed writer in China.
He knows how to sugarcoat when the questions are too heavy. He is also quite good at joking on self.
 February 17 BBC lit listApparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. (They could be right - I dunno if anyone reads books anymore with blogs, etc.)
Instructions: 1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. 2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE. 3) Star (*) those you plan on reading. 4) Tally your total at the bottom. 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x+ 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien * 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x+ 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee x 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte x+ 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens x+ 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott * 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller * 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare x (I've read most of them) + 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell x+ 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald*(read part of the chapters) 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy *(read part of it) 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (too long...) 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (not Nobel Prize winner fan) 29 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy x 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens x+ 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (does the movie count?) 34 Emma - Jane Austen x 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (Movie again!) 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres * 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orville 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown x+ 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (only had the first chapter read) 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel x+ 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen x 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens x 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov * (bought the book long ago yet haven't started) 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas x+ (the guy recommended to catalogue this title in Education instead of Literature<---Shawshreck's redemption) 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac *really should read this one 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding x 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville * 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x+ 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden- Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce * (too hard to read; and too many notes to go forward) Hmm, i am a loyal English Literature lover, Dickens and Shakespeare
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray * 80 Possession - AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker * 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle x 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare x+ 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo x it is a lond list.
Actually I just bought something new on Amazon.
Revolutionary road
Truman Capote's short stories
walk to freedom
three cups of tea
to live
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enjoy reading, pizza face!
January 23 活着活着就老了 冯唐的话至理名言。不老也要老。 在老的路上，我其实很想知道：悲伤和痛苦是不是那7个馒头？！加了水，就变成七七四十九个？！面对如此恶劣的境况，余华为什么还可以这样温暖？！这是我下个月要问他的问题。 为什么许三观，富贵的生活那样鲜活灵动，包括李光头的前半生也那样鲜透？越是接近现世，为什么他的笔触越变得陌生和僵硬？！他是不是也焦灼？这是我下个月要问他的另一个问题：你是不是有中年危机？ 其实我常觉得毕飞宇和他很像。 江南，此刻，已经是万木潇潇，落叶无边了。 November 23 讀書時間：遠在北京的家 這不是書的名字，是其中一篇。關於中國紀錄片的一些細碎放大。 《遠在北京的家》是1993年的作品，描寫安徽小保姆的生活，我當然是沒有看過。但是有關中囯的紀錄片現狀，還是挺讓人同情的。電影節上好看的都是外國人或者華裔拍攝的了。去年溫哥華國際電影節上最好的紀錄片--Up to Yangtzi溯江而上，是我那一年看到的描寫中國最好的片子。導演是個華裔，在三峽完成了他漫長的拍攝。曾經生活在長江腳下的我，很沉重，也很無奈。這是中國内地很多普通人生活的真實摹態吧！ |
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