Aicha Amano

My Own Moleskines! Just like what I confessed to Sir Ralph of Comatoria , I don't think I can summon the nerve to write on these precious moleskines. I have bad handwriting and I make erasures like mad! But I can't just have it laying around unused, too, as it defeats the purpose of having a moleskine. Maybe I'll use 1 moleskine notebook so I can practice writing poetry? Hmmmmm! * scratches imaginary beard* Life of Pi (Deluxe Hardbound, Illustrated) -Yann Martel Once again, thank you TopazHorizon and Avalon.Ph ! In other news, I promised myself not to buy new books, but I couldn't help it. I went to Booksale NCCC before going to Chi's CineAste film screening at StreetCafe, Jacinto (I watched "Cabaret" 1975, before I had to run out because my sister sounded very urgent with her texts-- which turned out to be a fake emergency! Arrgh! I missed the 2nd half of the movie!) Anyway, here are my finds weee: Just Jane: A Novel of Jane Austen's Life - Nancy Mo...

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is set in the early 1970's at the onset of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Universities have closed down, scholars were exiled or thrown in jail, and books, deemed dangerous, were confiscated and burned in city squares. Anti-intellectual ideas were at an all-time high and the regime had managed to overthrow modern thinking. Online history classes at online universities should be able to teach you more about the Chinese Cultural Revolution. This novel by Dai Sijie is a story about two city-bred and educated teenage boys, 18-year-old Luo and the 17-year-old unnamed narrator of the story. Both were sent to be "re-educated" in an extremely remote mountain village called Phoenix of the Sky. The rural community is made up of peasants, lowly farmers and merchants who were given the authority to teach and guide the boys away from bourgeois thinking. The two young men have noticed that the villager's ideas primarily based on the...