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May 11
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Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth (Paperback)
by John Robbins
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read in May, 2008
Astrid said:
"I thought I was late for 21 years, thought about it again, it's better than nothing. Dub as one of the vegetarian bible. This book made me in one turning point where there is no looking back. I stop eating red meat since 2001, politically concious ab...more
I thought I was late for 21 years, thought about it again, it's better than nothing. Dub as one of the vegetarian bible. This book made me in one turning point where there is no looking back. I stop eating red meat since 2001, politically concious about vegetarian issues by 2003, but not until the end of 2006 that I choose to be a lacto-ovo vegetarian. thought now while i'm pregnant with my first baby somehow i'm turning towards to a more pure vegetarian diet (my baby is somehow a stricter vegetarian than me). This book just hit me with all its fact and made me understand so many aspect about life choices, especially about food choices. ...less
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December 18
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Farewell My Concubine: Novel, A (Paperback)
by Lilian Lee
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read in December, 2007
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"i have to say, when seeing the movie first then reading the book, it always fell beyond expectation. thought having it the other way around, mostly it pissed me off because i always felt that the movie is lack of details than with the book. so, i rea...more
i have to say, when seeing the movie first then reading the book, it always fell beyond expectation. thought having it the other way around, mostly it pissed me off because i always felt that the movie is lack of details than with the book. so, i really enjoy reading the book after. i tried to remember the detail of the film, but it shortly failed me with the sad, short tone of the entire novel.
i felt sad finishing the book. tragic is more fitting i believe. it's like seeing another version of "happy together" of wong kar wai in another era and in another setting. it's even more saddening, like the one of the saddest story written ever before. the sadness suddenly wraps me up all of the sudden , thought it keep me alive. it keep me surviving the era of changes in china. it's like surviving a century, the 20th century. i felt like an old relic in the end of the final sentence.
i had to applause lilian lee for this one. ...less
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December 08
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Astrid
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A Wild Sheep Chase (Paperback)
by Haruki Murakami
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read in November, 2007
Astrid said:
"it was murakami kind of way of being a literate detective searching a mystical sheep. in a little sad character and with the touch of jazz.
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Astrid
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Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch (Paperback)
by Sijie Dai
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read in November, 2007
Astrid said:
"it's some sarcastic view of the china contemporary way of living. the character of mr. muo who is obsessed with freud but not really having any exciting progres about his sex life, he is one hilarious character. i laugh with an itch and twitch with a...more
it's some sarcastic view of the china contemporary way of living. the character of mr. muo who is obsessed with freud but not really having any exciting progres about his sex life, he is one hilarious character. i laugh with an itch and twitch with all his desperately effort on seeking a virgin girl.
if i have to compare it with balzac and his little chinese seamstress, well it's another different color on what dai si jie trying to explore. thought he manage it well....less
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August 21
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Astrid
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Selected Poems (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
by Pablo Neruda
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Astrid
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100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor (Texas Pan American Series)
by Pablo Neruda
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Astrid
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The Infinite Plan: A Novel (Paperback)
by Isabel Allende
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Astrid
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Of Love and Shadows (Paperback)
by Isabel Allende
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