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issenlloThe World Book Day meme, for which I'm desperately late, but still...
The book I am reading:
Jewellery of Tibet and the Himalayas and 周汝昌传 [aka Biography of Zhou Ruchang].
The book I am writing:
It's not a book.
The book I love most:
The physical book or the work itself? If the former, it's got to be my Shorter OED for being so lovely (if so damnably heavy, both of them) to touch (smooooth, thiiin, delicate onion-skin paper) and sigh over (I don't know so many of these words!) and to read; coming close is my compact volume of 唐诗三百首 [Three hundred Tang poems] for being small enough to squeeze into the mess that is my table and also, it's extremely readable.
Also my ebook device.
If the latter, too many to name.
The last book I received as a gift:
Um... a friend gave me some cast-off textbooks once?
Sadly, I've never really received a book/books as a gift. Family and friends feel that it is unhealthy to encourage me in my sins. However, I was once given a book on Qin Shih-huang as a prize for taking part in an amateur historical production in school. Well, it was given to the entire cast, but the others rejected it in horror because it was a book, so I got it by default. Nyah nyah.
The last book I gave as a gift:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to my student.
The nearest book on my desk:
Other than 唐诗三百首?
楚辞 by 屈原 (aka the guy who has rice dumplings thrown in the river every fifth of fifth in his honour, so goes folklore. Famous for 离骚)
You can tell I don't own many Chinese books by the way I keep them close.
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Living Lore, summary: London dreams of Sherlock Holmes, by Silver Pard.
Alien Abduction Blues, Mycroft, also by Silver Pard.
The book I am reading:
Jewellery of Tibet and the Himalayas and 周汝昌传 [aka Biography of Zhou Ruchang].
The book I am writing:
It's not a book.
The book I love most:
The physical book or the work itself? If the former, it's got to be my Shorter OED for being so lovely (if so damnably heavy, both of them) to touch (smooooth, thiiin, delicate onion-skin paper) and sigh over (I don't know so many of these words!) and to read; coming close is my compact volume of 唐诗三百首 [Three hundred Tang poems] for being small enough to squeeze into the mess that is my table and also, it's extremely readable.
Also my ebook device.
If the latter, too many to name.
The last book I received as a gift:
Um... a friend gave me some cast-off textbooks once?
Sadly, I've never really received a book/books as a gift. Family and friends feel that it is unhealthy to encourage me in my sins. However, I was once given a book on Qin Shih-huang as a prize for taking part in an amateur historical production in school. Well, it was given to the entire cast, but the others rejected it in horror because it was a book, so I got it by default. Nyah nyah.
The last book I gave as a gift:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to my student.
The nearest book on my desk:
Other than 唐诗三百首?
楚辞 by 屈原 (aka the guy who has rice dumplings thrown in the river every fifth of fifth in his honour, so goes folklore. Famous for 离骚)
You can tell I don't own many Chinese books by the way I keep them close.
***
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crack_van: Graduate Vulcan for Fun and Profit, general, Star Trek reboot, by lazulisongLiving Lore, summary: London dreams of Sherlock Holmes, by Silver Pard.
Alien Abduction Blues, Mycroft, also by Silver Pard.