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Member: betterthanchocolate

Library952 books — see library

Reviews13 reviews — see reviews

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Tagscanadian literature (217), novel (203), to find through browsing (126), 2007 (90), short story (75), children's literature (72), canadiana (66), solo (64), english language teaching (57) — see all tags

GroupsCBC's Canada Reads Fans, DimSum Thing, Favorite Bookstores, Graduate Students, Hong Kong Bookies, Ontario Reads !, Read YA Lit, Reading Canada, Reading Globally

Favorite authorsBill Ashcroft, Kingsley Bolton, Roch Carrier, Geoffrey Chaucer, Wayson Choy, Lynn Coady, Matt Cohen, Brock Cole, Robertson Davies, Virginia Hamilton, Tomson Highway, Monica Hughes, Jamaica Kincaid, Margaret Laurence, Alistair MacLeod, Ian McEwan, Stuart McLean, Alice Munro, Maurice Sendak, Carol Shields, Fred Wah, Xu Xi (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAnother Story Bookshop, Beijing Foreign Languages Bookstore [北京市外文书店], BMV (Yonge-Eglinton), Books Kinokuniya - Shinjuku Main Store (Tokyo), Cosmos Books (Wanchai), Eliot's Bookshop, Glad Day Bookshop, Hong Kong University Press Campus Showroom, Kubrick - Broadway Cinemateque, Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium, Livraria Portuguesa, Mabel's Fables, Paddyfield, Swindon Books - University of Hong Kong, The Commercial Press (HK) - Shatin Book Centre, Toronto Women's Bookstore, University of Toronto Bookstore

Favorite librariesBroadway Cinemateque Film Library, Hong Kong Public Library (Central), Macao Central Library (Instituto para os Assuntos Civicos e Municipais Building), The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Chung Chi College Elizabeth Luce Moore Library, Toronto Public Library - Lillian H. Smith (Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation & Fantasy), Toronto Public Library - North York Central Library, Toronto Public Library - Riverdale

Other favoritesIndependent Publishers of Hong Kong, The Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival

About me I'm a school teacher, cat-lover and reader. I enjoy reading Canadian fiction, children's literature, fiction for young adults and anything written about the Asian diaspora.

At the moment I'm doing some dedicated reading on post-colonial studies and the politics of English for an MA in English Studies at the University of Hong Kong, the oldest tertiary education institution in the territory.

Now reading:
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Xiaolu Guo.
On Not Speaking Chinese, Ien Ang.
Faking It, Fred Wah.
~June 2008~

About my library Mostly English language fiction, in the appealing trade paperback format where possible. There's also a smattering of work-related books on teaching ESL, and now that I'm back in school, a growing collection of texts relating to literary theory, cultural studies and post-colonial studies.



Happy reading in 2008.

Real nameChristine

Locationtoronto | hong kong

Account typepublic, lifetime

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Member sinceJun 4, 2006