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Mon, Jun. 23rd, 2008 03:09 amI am very proud of myself! Lately I have been consuming all-Chinese media in terms of TV and reading, with the exception of the internet! One hopes that my Chinese is improving marginally, or at least that I am recovering some long-forgotten vocabulary. And better yet, I got a membership card at a local book rental store—book rental stores here largely stock manga, romance novels and wuxia novels—so I can sample a lot more manhua without having to buy everything.
It was about $2 to borrow 7 books for five days; not up to par with a public library, clearly, but still not bad, especially as I don't know how the state of Taiwan's public libraries are. I also suspect that they don't shelve as much manga as the rental stores. I am hoping that the manga rental store will have out-of-print titles as well, though I'm still looking for a copy of Yazawa Ai's Last Quarter so I can reread it and take it home.
A friend of my mom also lent me some kdramas, one of which is the Gong Yoo teacher drama. Aiiiieeeee! Maybe I will watch one episode to give it a fair chance and then quickly return it. The others are Miss Mermaid and Queen of the Game, neither of which I have heard of. I query my FL for help! Also also, I keep seeing box sets of Dal Ja's Spring and Coffee Prince here for about $40, and I want them SO MUCH! I have only been refraining because they only have Chinese subtitles, and that will put a damper on my plan to sic them on as many people as possible.
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It was about $2 to borrow 7 books for five days; not up to par with a public library, clearly, but still not bad, especially as I don't know how the state of Taiwan's public libraries are. I also suspect that they don't shelve as much manga as the rental stores. I am hoping that the manga rental store will have out-of-print titles as well, though I'm still looking for a copy of Yazawa Ai's Last Quarter so I can reread it and take it home.
A friend of my mom also lent me some kdramas, one of which is the Gong Yoo teacher drama. Aiiiieeeee! Maybe I will watch one episode to give it a fair chance and then quickly return it. The others are Miss Mermaid and Queen of the Game, neither of which I have heard of. I query my FL for help! Also also, I keep seeing box sets of Dal Ja's Spring and Coffee Prince here for about $40, and I want them SO MUCH! I have only been refraining because they only have Chinese subtitles, and that will put a damper on my plan to sic them on as many people as possible.
( Giant pictures )
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