Norwegian Wood

2003 Hugo and Nebula Award for Best Novella

bought from amazon on nov 17th, 2008
finished the Chinese translation in Science Fiction World in march 2008

borrowed from mills on oct 7th, 2008
finished on nov 7th, 2008

just a list i found on the internet. not sure where it came from, but it’s fun to play with. some rules:
1) Bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you have started but haven’t finished.
3) Place an asterisk by those you intend to read/finish someday.
4) Mark in a different color the books you LOVE.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (long time ago, maybe in highschool)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (didn’t recognize the title in the first time)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (i love this series, especially the later ones)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 * Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (mostly b/c norwegian wood)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 * Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (i read two tolstoy one summer in college, can’t remember why though)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 * Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 * Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (what a waste of time)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

i guess i probably need to read more…

上周趁史老师回国之前, 把committee meeting开了. 我记得原来这种meeting也就是走走形式, 开不开无所谓的. 最近两年系里抓的紧了点, 我都收到好几次email提醒说一年至少要开一次了, 而且还有流言说不开学校就不给钱了… 星期二定了人, 星期三准备, 星期四就开了. 一切都顺利, 就把前不久做的RPA的结果报告了一下.

周三和原来组里的人去了downtown一家sushi自助, August 8, 好像新开没多久, 名字取得像是跟北京奥运似的, 但开店的人好像不是中国人. 平时的中饭17块钱一个人, 比较好的地方是除了sushi以外, 还有dim sum可以选择. 一般中国饭店有的都有, 但手艺一般, 能将就吃吃. 这样屯里的四家sushi自助吃了三家, sushi star的服务太差, 札幌的东西还是比较不错的, 88的就多了点心, 但sushi没有其他两家好吃. 还有一家以前鹤面馆的地方, 就在牛头的背面, 听说比较便宜, 还没有机会去试试. 周五自己在家把上次在大统华买的乌鸡给做了. 上次去纽约ayh做了一次吃, 感觉很不错. 这次就放冷水煮, 加了点姜片和盐, 依然香得一塌糊涂, 一口气一顿就把一只鸡给解决了, 嘿嘿. 看来原材料的好坏还是蛮重要的.

书翻完了to kill a mocking bird, 电影也看了, 感觉不错, 有空在写点感想吧. 还看了部日本的Hero, 当年大学里看过连续剧的, 木村拓哉和松榕子主演的, 具体什么情节现在一点都不记得了, 电影还行. 木村拓哉还不怎么显老, 估计还能演演渡边, 如果村上能放版权的话…

borrowed from mills library on june 27th 2008

上周末开车去了一次大统华. 第一次开车走比较远的高速, 开始还有点紧张, 但开起来后也就适应了, 再说就一个方向的车, 速度跑起来后蛮爽的. 比较难搞的是找高速的出口, 看样子路不熟的话可能还是要整个GPS的. 这次虽然有liuzhen所谓的人工GPS带路, 但回来的时候还是开岔了路, 在burlinton应该接着403走却开到了去大瀑布的路上, 然后从burlington几乎是开着local回屯里的.

在mississauga吃了顿中饭, imperial buffet, 中式的自助餐, 感觉很不错. 菜的味道还可以, 有一个红烧茄子做得相当够味道. 有日本sushi, 种类也挺全的. 特别是价钱很合理, 13块钱lunch, 能吃得很饱. 相比较而言, 周四去的山上mandarin就一般了, 一是中国菜的品种少了不少, 二来lunch要17块钱. 主要是一对比觉得mandarin还是有差距的, 但毕竟就在屯里, 近了不少, 太饿的时候可以去凑合凑合.

另外周六的时候xuwei从ottawa过来开会, 顺便小聚了一会. 晚饭去了山上的食神, 就在limeridge mall旁边. 菜是粤菜, 做的很精致而且清淡, 感觉做工算是屯里最好的了. 有一个姜葱霸王鸡不错, 像上海的三黄鸡. 据说点心很不错, 下次可以去尝尝.

这一周都是天气闷热, 空气就像高中时候梅雨季节的棉被, 挤得出水, 人身上总是粘粘糊糊的. 周末下了一场好雨, 气温降了下来, 晚上睡觉也觉得舒坦了许多. 最近在读to kill a mockingbird, 书是去年年初就从mills图书馆找了出来的, 当时刚看完电影capote, 发现里面turman capote和harper lee竟然是从小长大的朋友, capote写过breakfast at tiffany’s和in cold blood, 风格截然不同的作品, lee最著名的作品就是to kill a mockingbird了. 当时看了大概1/3, 最近再读发现很多都不记得了, 只好重头再来. 电脑上还有下的同名电影, 等翻完了书再看可能好点.

去amazon定了两本书和一盒cd. 书是garder dozois的year’s best sf, 2007的, 这套书积了不少了, 抽空争取翻翻了. 还有一本the knockout furmula for finding great investments, morningstar上推荐的, 无聊的时候可以看看. cd是coldplay的新专辑viva la vida.

电影看了两部, 一部bee movie, 感觉很一般, 完全没有seinfeld的味道啊. 还有一部atonement, 很简单的情节, 不是故事说得还是很有手法的. 这周蝙蝠侠最新的一部上映, the dark knight, 本来打算去看的, 没找到时间. 上周终于把lost看到了最新的, 第四季结束后不但没解决多少疑点, 很多问题却出现了. 我对jack的看法也有了很大转变, 头两季的时候我还觉得jack比sawyer实在要强太多了, 到了第四季我跟倾向于sawyer了, jack太喜欢自己给自己找负担了, 活得多累啊…

Maycomb county: fiction place where the story was told.

Finch’s Landing: Finch family’s original place.

Jem: Scout’s brother, full name Jeremy Atticus Finch

Scount: the story teller

Atticus Finch: Jem and Scout’s father

Alexandra Finch: Atticus’s sister, husband Uncle Jimmy, son Henry, grandson Francis Hancock (p85)

John Hale Finch: Atticus’s brother, uncle Jack

Calpurnia: cook and the housekeeper

Cousin Ike Finch: relative (p84)

Mrs Henry Lafayette Dubose: neighbor

Miss Rachel Haverford: Finchs’ next-door neighbor

Dill: Miss Rachel’s nephew, full name Charles Baker Harris

Miss Stephanie Crawford: Finchs’ cross-street neighbor

Miss Maudie Atkinson: neighbor (p22)

Mr Avery: neighbor (p58)

Miss Caroline Fisher: school teacher (p22)

Walter Cunningham: first-year student

Burris Ewell: Scout’s classmate

Cecil Jacobs: Scout’s classmate (p82)

Eula May: telephone operator (p72)

Heck Tate: sheriff

Tim Robinson: Atticus’ client

Zeebo: garbage collector, Cal’s eldest son (p129)

Reverend Sykes: priest of First Purchase, church of black people (p130)

borrowed from mills library on January 2nd, 2007

finished on July 21st, 2008

- notes

Ordered from amazon.ca on July 3rd, 2005
Finished on April 6th, 2008

大千世界, 真是无奇不有:

Ireland admits to lying over squad withdrawl

大意是爱尔兰国家队一球员(这人的姓竟然就是爱尔兰$%#&!), 在上周末国际比赛日接到女友的电话, 说是他外婆去世了. 他马上联系他的女友, 原来是他女友流产了, 希望他能回去陪她. 这其实没什么大不了的, 跟主教练说一声请个假回去看看就是了. 这人还蛮厉害, 继续维持外婆去世的谎话, 国家队还好心好意派专机把他从客场送回家. 没过多久, 他接到国家队的电话, 说发现他外婆还健在. 这也算是时候坦白了, 他还不, 还要硬挺着, 说其实是他奶奶去世了. 可关键问题是他奶奶也还健在, 这人编谎话也太没有水平了. 国家队的人一查发现他奶奶也还一切安好, 谎话总算是被拆穿了, 只好公开道歉了.

我觉得引的这几段话太厉害了:

‘I decided at that stage that I must tell truth and admit I had told lies.

‘I realise now that it was a massive mistake on my part to tell the FAI and Manchester City that my grandmothers had died and I deeply regret it.’

感情他在被拆穿之前不知道说谎是不对的…