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Sarolina Shen Chang - Canton, Michigan (USA):

April 01, 2001:
This is the book Li Po of Tang Dynasty wrote. One night,
    while drinking wine in a boat, he used it to dip up
    the moon from the waters, but fell with it. It still smells
    the moon the river and the wine of the Eighth Century China.
This book is about to extinct, so it's being raised in a
    glass case. It can never survive if we return it to the
    regular shelf.
This book is sitting on the witness stand. It is thick enough
    to boost a child defendant in the school shooting case.
This book is sitting on the witness stand. It is the only
    witness in a spy case. The defense lawyer is trying to beat
    the wits out of it.
Parental guidance and reader discretion are recommended for reading this book.
    Its author, Gao Xing Jian, the Nobel Literature Laureate, suggested during a
    press conference in Taiwan that we skip the sex parts if we
    found them too offensive or, say, too unbearable.

April 02, 2001:
This is the book I lent to my best friend who forgot
    to return it so I took it back when I went to
    her house for a visit. She is not talking to me
    any more and will not for the rest of her life.
    This is a book about friendship turned sour.
Ear plugs are required for reading this book, The Historical Legend of
    The Three Kingdoms. In this book, men cried a lot, the
    kings, the court attendants, the generals, the soldiers, the common people.
    It is really unbearable to hear men cry, so often, so loud.
No one has ever opened this book. It is said that
    it will write down one's evil thought when opened.
This book was heavily highlighted and underlined by previous readers. So,
    besides reading the book itself, I am also comparing my appreciations of
    it with others'.
I would like to re-write this book.

April 03, 2001:
This is the book Si Ma Qian of Han Dynasty wrote from
    104 B.C. to 91 B.C.. It is called Shi Ji, The
    History, 130 chapters long and 52650 words in total, one brush stroke
    after another.
Half of Shi Ji was written before Si Ma Qian was thrown
    into jail in 99 B.C. and later castrated in 98 B.C. for
    speaking out for a friend, General Li, who led 5000 troops across
    the Great Wall to fight the Huns, 80000 strong, had won many
    battles before losing the war and surrendered.
Part of the second half of Shi Ji was written while Si
    Ma Qian was serving his sentence in the prison, bearing the unbearable
    pain and shame. He was pardoned in 96 B.C. and welcome
    back to an even higher position in the imperial court of an
    equally strong-minded emperor, Han Wu Di.
The History of Ching Dynasty was written by one of our professors.
    There was only one copy in the college library, so our
    class president xeroxed and passed out the Introduction of the book so
    we could study for the final. We learned very little about
    this dynasty, though we all passed, the professor spent the whole semester
    talking about the fall of the previous dynasty, Ming Dynasty.
This is the book Cao Xue Qin of Ching Dynasty wrote, Red
    Chamber Dream. There were more than 440 well described characters in this
    semi-autobiography, the rise and fall of a famous family. It helps
    me understand more about the Chinese society in Ching Dynasty.

April 04, 2001:
This is the book Du Fu of Tang Dynasty wrote when the
    roof of his straw hut was leaking. We can still hear
    the tranquility beyond the rain and yearn for it.
This is the book Tao Yuan Ming of Jin Dynasty wrote, a
    fisherman 's accidental journey into an Utopia where people had no knowledge
    of the rise and fall of all those dynasties. The
    fisherman never found this Utopia again though he had marked every break
    of the river on his way home.
This is the book Wu Cheng En of Ming Dynasty wrote, Journey
    To The West, the famous monk Xuan Zhuang's pilgrimage to India, the
    birthplace of Buddhism. We take sides with the Monkey King, one
    of Xuan Zhuang's disciples, whenever there were disagreements. A monkey able
    to somersault through clouds saw far and better.
This little red book inflamed the Cultural Revolution. The teenagers had
    excuses for their decade long absence from school. The author, Chairman
    Mao, authorized.
This fortune cookie proverbs book was not written by Confucius (551 B.C.
    -- 479 B.C.). Confucius wrote many important books, had many famous
    followers, but had never said or written all those fortune cookie proverbs,
    such as: you like Chinese food, you'll find your true love tomorrow,
    your investment will rebounce if Greenspan lowered the interest rate by 3/4
    of a point.

April 05, 2001:
This is the bedtime book I read to my daughters before and
    after they fell asleep
This is the book I lent to my best friend who remembered
    to return it but forgot to remove the bookmark, a $20 bill.
This is the book I lent to my best friend. She
    hated the ending so much that she rewrote it inside the back
    cover. I am not talking to her.
This is the book I lent to my best friend. She
    liked it so much that she xeroxed the whole book. Now
    she is in a copy right law suit. She claims I
    am the willing accomplice.
If you are planning on checking out this audio book for your
    vacation, make sure it's a 6 hours drive or flight. Because
    it takes that long to find out who loved whom, who married
    whom, who eventually died of what disease.

April 06, 2001:
This is the book the optometrist read while waiting for customers in
    the brand new office.
This is the book the tree doctor brought with him for his
    first trimming job. He read it to the branches as if
    saying a departing prayer.
This is the book I was reading when the phone rang.
    It was a wrong number.
This is another book I was reading when the phone rang.
    It was an automatic telemarketing call which ended with: please hold while
    all our representatives are assisting other customers.
This is the third book I was reading when the phone rang.
    It was the service department from Sears informing me of the
    approximate time their technician would come that day. The technician already
    did the day before.

April 07, 2001:
This is the book about the second oldest profession. What is
    computer doing in there?
This is a book about fate. People read it whenever Dow
    hit another unforseeable bottom.
This is the book about mail delivery during nuclear war, written by
    the Postal Service Nuclear War Delivery Research Committee which is currently working
    on the no-Saturday-delivery project.
This is a book about memory. I read. I forgot.
    Sentence by sentence, page by page, chapter by chapter.
This book about lonesomeness was awarded to the SURVIVOR

April 08, 2001:
This the text book our professor used for the Classical Chinese Literature
    class. It doesn't have any punctuation so we really had to
    read it word by word and punctuate the masterpieces according to our
    comprehension. Those great authors had since turned several times in their
    graves hearing us stuttering through.
The notes in this music book are anxious to skateboard over the
    piano.
The lily on the dust cover of this poetry book has its
    root hidden somewhere in the muddy lines.
This book is about a family heirloom, a Chinese painting which had,
    in the full moon nights, pulled generations of mistresses into its walled
    gardens and pavillions. Look closely, the author pointed out, one could
    find tiny footprints at the bottom of the farthest wall, failed escapes.
This is the book the innkeeper put under the pillow for insominia
    guest. The guest would never wake up without a pre-arranged morning
    call.

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