In about a month, it'll have been 5 years since I set out to learn enough Chinese to read my blorbos in the language they were written in. Today, I finished reading my second novel in Chinese - Daomu Biji vol. 2 (not because I've read vol 1, but because I don't have vol 1 and just decided to go for it). It took me over 7 months but I did it.
There's one book that, as soon as it was announced, I knew was The One To Read - my ultimate goal, what I most wanted to read:
The TGCF revised edition.
Anyway, I'm gonna start it tomorrow. It's harder than my first two reads but fuck it. I pulled out my hard copies today in preparation, and I just wanted to take a moment to marvel at how fucking gorgeous they are, and share that with the TGCF loving public who may not have seen.
Vol. 1 interior illustrations:
Vol. 2 interior illustrations:
Vol. 3 interior illustrations:
Oh, and by the way, the red string of fate that's on all three covers? connects if you line them.
in MXTX's own writing...
天官赐福，百无禁忌！
wish me luck...
