Participation
in Reading challenge, March 2020



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Last day! But I need to continue this habit. Thanks everyone for the competition/motivation.

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A great description of unconsolable sorrow: 秃鹤不肯起来,泪水分别从两眼角流下来,流到耳根,又一滴一滴落在泥土上,把泥土湿了一片。But Bald Crane wouldn’t get up. Tears dropped from the corners of both his eyes, past his ears. They dropped to the ground and wet a piece of earth.

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I'm reading The Straw House by Wenxuan Cao (草房子,曹文轩). I got to the part of the novel where a bald kid's hat was stolen and run up a flag pole, and I really liked the descriptive language of the following passage: 有风。风吹得那顶白帽子在旗杆顶上微微旋转摆动,好像是一个人在感觉自己的帽子是否已经戴正。It was windy. The wind blew the white hat, which slightly turned, as if someone were adjusting it to see whether it was properly on.

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I'm reading a book about a kid in elementary school who is completely bald and teased by the other kids. He wears a hat to cover his bald head, but some kids steal the hat and run away with it. I find the following sentence to be very moving in describing the feelings of the kid. The Chinese version is so much more moving than the English translation.
秃鹤在校园里东一头西一头地找着阿恕:“我的帽子,我的帽子------” 脚步越来越慢,越来越小,眼睛里已有了眼泪。Bald Crane looked for Ah Shu, clueless, all over the campus, “My hat, my hat…” He was too slow, and there were tears in his eyes.

Wow. Good for you on choosing something so engaging.

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I'm reading a book about a kid in elementary school who is completely bald and teased by the other kids. He wears a hat to cover his bald head, but some kids steal the hat and run away with it. I find the following sentence to be very moving in describing the feelings of the kid. The Chinese version is so much more moving than the English translation.
秃鹤在校园里东一头西一头地找着阿恕:“我的帽子,我的帽子------” 脚步越来越慢,越来越小,眼睛里已有了眼泪。Bald Crane looked for Ah Shu, clueless, all over the campus, “My hat, my hat…” He was too slow, and there were tears in his eyes.

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Reading a novel, the Straw House, Wordswing dialogues, and Afu Thomas vlog subtitles.




Challenge time progress:100%
Goal progress:101.7%
Score20.33
Rank2nd
Hours reported20.33
Goal20h