You are on 🙂

Sure I would love to.

Hope books such as these will draw you in to become a fan of book reading 🙂

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Thanks for sharing! As it so happens, we’ll talk about literacy and gender in class today 🙂

Thanks for the interesting translation example – I’ll add that to my collection of kinship terminology in intercultural communication!

Thanks for sharing. I’m a big fan of Arundhati Roy, too 🙂

Amazing evidence of the power of books. Very best wishes for your journey!

So wonderful that you’ve discovered the joy of immersing yourself in a good book!

Thanks, Jif! I always read novels about a place before I go there. Before my recent visit to Kuala Lumpur for AILA2024, one of the “preparatory” novels I read was Five-star Billionaire by Tash Aw, which I hugely recommend.

Lol – the image of you fighting your wardrobe made me laugh 🙂

Can you tell us more about the book? What is it called in English and what are the key points about ancient (?) Turkish empires that spoke to you?

Thanks for sharing. I’ve never heard of this title by Nietzsche before – can you provide more information?

I find the proverb “until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter” quoted in the article extremely thought-provoking. Imagining myself being born 100 years earlier, where all the literacies about women were burned like the books of the Mayans, or not even given birth under a male chauvinist society, I cannot picture how short-sighted and insecure a woman I would be.

A time that I read a book in which the story differs from my experience is during the COVID-19 period with a book, When Breath Becomes Air, by Dr. Paul Kalanithi. He is the son of first-generation immigrants, growing up in Kingman, Arizona and pursuing a path in medicine. Healthcare and the medical field, with the excessive number of domain-specific medical terms that distress my reading experience, are far from the topics that I usually care about. However, this book helped me understand what life is in death through unveiling scenes of profound loss and quiet hope in the waiting rooms and the sterilised offices. It gave me so much strength during such a difficult period of lockdown.

When I read books, especially novels, I often immerse myself in the characters’ lives, imagining how I would react in their situations. For instance, when a main character makes a crucial decision that turns the story in a worse direction, I find myself reflecting on what I would do in their place. Would I make the same choice? Books often provide clues or details — such as the character’s background, emotions, and relationship– that help explain these decisions. It deepens my understandings and makes me want to study about character analysis.