Book Time Travel

Walked around in Jungfernstieg area in Hamburg.  I again, auto piloted myself to my favorite shop in any countries.  Not LV , not Hermes (not that I have the $) but, a book store. Books there, mostly written in German.  I spent an hour in front of the little corner with the English ones with … Read more

My Book Conquer

My little conquer from HK bookfair. It’s kina dumb but I realize I always almost make believes that I finished reading books when I turned around after paying them at counters. For some reason, I frantically threw myself in and grabbed the last SexAndtheCity at bookfair.  Feeling “hoohoo last piece! HKD55!~ lucky me!” Next sunny … Read more

戀酒事典 Dictionnaire Amoureux Du Vin

我一直想買這本書。不去其他書店的我, 每次在Page One也找不到。在本星期香港書展,卻讓我終於碰到。 翻開一個男人的記事簿, 是件相當有趣的事情。感覺 就像偷窺一樣。文字間偷看男主角的思想模式。 這就是這樣的一本書。 與葡萄酒混雜的紙頁間, 焦點不多是男主角雜亂的生活事兒, 反是我喜歡他的葡萄酒點滴。 這本法國文人的記事簿裡記載了許多有關葡萄酒的詞彙, 以字典形式編排,由A到Z, 收錄了108個與酒相關的詞條。詞條有自傳性質的、關於閱讀的、關於釀酒的記憶、關於飲食、還有小酒館、葡萄酒業的眾生相、產區、葡萄園、城堡酒莊、酒 窖、酒桶、酒瓶、酒標、品酒、盲目品酒、品酒師、開瓶器、試酒碟、軟木塞味、葡萄酒戰爭、伊斯蘭與葡萄酒、性與葡萄酒等 (實在太多了, 講唔曬, 請大家買來自己讀一讀)。 從上帝造人到世界末日。 記事簿裡載滿了不同於被冠上”品酒”一詞的嚴肅, 以幽默輕快的筆調將葡萄酒知識文化,信手拿來而談, 比如裡面提到基督教, 在對葡萄酒虔敬又充滿禁制的歷史當中, 教宗克萊孟五世 (Clément V) 創立了Château Pape-Clément。反到讓人輕輕鬆鬆。 這不是一本易讀得懂的書,卻是一本容易讀得下去的書。 因書本裡提到的, 不只是關於葡萄酒的事,還涉及大多以法國為中心的地理、文化、經濟與藝術,以及一些私人小故事,雖然很難全部理解,但是我想每個人都需要幾本永遠都看不 懂,卻隨時拿起就看,陪你坐巴士坐地鐵坐廁所的文化書。 尤其對於那些愛酒人,也許比天堂更好嗎? 作者和你說「不吐出來,就會完蛋」, 下一章節和你說「遇到好酒的話,我就往裡面吐」。 葡萄酒原本就是這種生活態度罷! 作者簡介 Bernard Pivot 法 國資深記者、作家、文化評論家。1935年出生於里昂,家裡正是生產薄酒萊(Beaujolais)的葡萄農戶。記者學校(CFJ,Centre de formation des journalistes)畢業後,於1958年進入《費加洛報》(Le Figaro)文學版,一待就是16年。1975年轉戰電視圈,先後主持文學節目「猛浪譚」(Apostrophes)、「文化湯」(Bouillon de culture)、「雙重的我」(Double je), 成為法國當代最有文化影響力的代表人物之一。1985年與語言學家米歇琳.索蒙(Micheline Sommant)發起「拼字大賽」(Championnats d’orthographe), 將法文單字聽寫變成全民運動,為捍衛法語文化不遺餘力。歷經32年的電視生涯後,於2005年退休,現為龔固爾文學獎評審委員。著有《100個要搶救的單 字》(100 mots a … Read more

Philosophy 101: Plato and a platypus walk into a bar (part2)

Back from Beach. What a sunny afternoon and I wondered about my existence on beach “I sunbath, therefore I am” – what a horrible gag (爛 gag). so back to this fun read, I’d like to share more of it’s philogags below: And one about gender identities these days: Two gay men are standing on … Read more

Philosophy 101: Plato and a platypus walk into a bar (part1)

“Plato and Platypus walk into a bar” ? “sounds fun!” I thought. This title with such kiddo cover forced me bought the book during my wait departing to 張家界 in search of Pandora (where Avatar shot those amazingly beautiful mountains CG them into those floating mountains in Movie). I bet you again will ask,”In search … Read more

Craving crave

It’s hard to find an english written paper magazine dedicated only to food. And then, I got an invite to Crave Launch Party at the agnès b. le pain grillé at La Loggia in IFC Hong Kong on 29 April. Stepped into La Loggia with few good buddies. I always quite like its interior. It … Read more

Catching Monocle’s Landing

A monocle is a type of corrective lens used to correct the vision in only one eye. It consists of a circular lens, generally with a wire ring around the circumference that can be attached to a string. Imagine an English man wearing a single lens seeing through it reading the world. Besides a gentlemen’s … Read more

My name is Charles Saatchi and I am an one-liner ad man

“My name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic” a paper back I bought to read about this reclusive man responses to battery of questions. I bought it as I was curious in what way Saatchi will put his mind up in front of the public finally and was interested to see his mind … Read more

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