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Mon, Jun. 23rd, 2003 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterSo my day has mostly consisted of spending lots of money. I reserved a copy of Harry Potter from a bookstore around here... it's amazing how international the HP thing is! Which is, of course, to my advantage. I can't believe all the Taiwan bookstores have basically already sold out of OotP, even though they're only stocking the English copy right now! I guess it's kind of like me wanting to learn Japanese so I could read manga as soon as they came out. So hopefully I will have a copy by the 26th, in the nice Bloombury edition, which I like much better anyhow. I don't quite get why the American publishers felt as though they had to change certain Britishisms -- I read stuff like Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe, Five Children and It, and etc, etc, as a kid, and while the British words sometimes confused me, they never really put me off reading a book. Well, with the exception of the rendition of Martha's accent in The Secret Garden. But then, I read Little Princess and decided to pick up the Secret Garden again anyway.
Speaking of which, I wonder why so much of the good kid lit out there seems to be British? L.M Montgomery, C.S. Lewis, Philip Pullman, Lloyd Alexander, Ursula K. LeGuin, Frances Hodgson Burnett, tons and tons more... or maybe I was only given mostly British stuff?
Anyhow, I want to post a picture of me and my new straightened hair in my funny, girly, very Taiwan-like clothes, except I can't use my university webspace anymore. Sigh.
I also did much avoiding of the fact that I have to get a job. Mostly, it just reminds me of all the things I can't do.
Speaking of which, I wonder why so much of the good kid lit out there seems to be British? L.M Montgomery, C.S. Lewis, Philip Pullman, Lloyd Alexander, Ursula K. LeGuin, Frances Hodgson Burnett, tons and tons more... or maybe I was only given mostly British stuff?
Anyhow, I want to post a picture of me and my new straightened hair in my funny, girly, very Taiwan-like clothes, except I can't use my university webspace anymore. Sigh.
I also did much avoiding of the fact that I have to get a job. Mostly, it just reminds me of all the things I can't do.
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Mon, Jun. 23rd, 2003 11:05 am (UTC)Oooo, you got your hands on it! I'm quite jealous. I'm wondering if the publishers have started to let more Britishisms in the books now that the audience for them is pretty much secure and will very likely not be alienated by strange vocabulary. But this is why I still like getting the British editions in Taiwan. Gotta love globalization!