Hello, I finished!
Harry Potter, that is. I've been spending all of my 课余 (out-of-class) spare time reading... and reading and reading. I won't talk about the plot here, but will say that I loved it. I fully expected for the last installment not to live up to the rest of the series, but now after finishing think that it not only lived up to the first six books but surpassed them--it was just so darn good. (This won't give anything away, but for those of you who have read it, I so love Dobby...)
I've spent this week trying to get back into the academic swing of things. It's rough going back to our 100 vocab words a night, to our daily paragraph memorizations. I think longingly of afternoons spent practicing Gong Fu... and then shake myself out of it and give thanks for warm showers.
My plans for this weekend? A trip into downtown Beijing, and hopefully a meeting with my Chinese "host-family." I thought that I'd been orphaned but got an e-mail from my "mom" yesterday. This Sunday we're planning to get together.
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Books I've Read Recently
- A Moveable Feast (Hemingway) +
- Brave New World (Huxley) +
- Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) +
- Eat, Pray, Love +
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows + +
- Honeymoon With My Brother ~
- Oracle Bones (Peter Hessler) +
- River Town (Peter Hessler) +
- Song of Soloman (Toni Morrison) +
- Sophie's Choice (in progress)
- The Dispossessed (Le Guin) +
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) +
- The Virgin Suicides (Eugenides) +
1 comment:
so... i'm not going to lie... the only time i cried during hp7 was when dobby, you know... yeah. when i finished the book, it was like the end of an era.
i miss you! alas, i won't get to see you until winter... booo... on us.
hope you get a good host family!
love xu
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