Books borrowed and sold, December 2010

Sunday, 16 January 2011, 15:36 | Category : Cafe
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SOLD

Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
Guns, Germs and Steel – Jared Diamond
Hot, Flat, and Crowded – Thomas L. Friedman
Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder
Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking – Malcolm Gladwell
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days – Jeff Kinney
Star Wars: Before the Storm – Michael P. Kube-McDowell
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson (two copies)
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Fifth Woman – Henning Mankell
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet – Colleen McCullough
The Host – Stephenie Meyer
Pillow Talk – Freya North
Paper Doll – Robert B. Parker
Degree of Guilt – Richard North Patterson
The Road Less Travelled – M. Scott Peck
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Gender and the Politics of History – Joan Wallach Scott
The Help – Kathryn Stockett
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien
朋友 – 贾平凹

 

BORROWED

Chronicles – Bob Dylan
Oracle Bones – Peter Hessler
The Tao of Health and Longevity – Da Liu
法国史 – Outils
The Great Blue Yonder – Alex Shearer

Black Dragon Christmas

Sunday, 9 January 2011, 1:24 | Category : Cafe
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Seaside Yard Inn [Shuanglang guesthouse]

Sunday, 9 January 2011, 0:11 | Category : Yunnan tourism
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View from the balcony

We spent a lovely New Year in Shuanglang village on the east side of Erhai lake. There are a few guesthouses there now, but we can highly recommend this one…

Seaside Yard Inn
沧海一粟 cānghǎiyísù
Tel: 13099854492, 0872-2461718
Email: chys2009@21cn.com

Rates: 3 bed dorm RMB 35, 2 bed dorm RMB 40, ground floor en suite RMB 120, second floor ensuite RMB 150, second floor three bed (I think it’s the one in the photo below) RMB 280.
More photos on their website

 

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When you see this building on your right (it’s the Kuixing Pavilion [魁星阁 kuíxīnggé]), the guesthouse is right nextdoor down a little alley

 

 

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Lovely rooms, very clean, plus Western toilets