Common place book

On the plane:

Confession, Redemption, and Death: Liu Xiaobo and the Protest Movement of 1989 by Geremie Barme’

One Decent Man by Geremie R. Barme’ (reviewing Simon Leys: Navigator Between Worlds by Philippe Paquet)

I’m so Ronrey by Geremie R. Barme’, The China Journal, January 2006)

New Yorker artist story, female painter age 80 with disorderly cat, descriptions of men dated or loved in the past and food cooked in the present.

In cabs:

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You are by Alan W. Watts

The Lonely City Olivia Wang

Qiu ZhiJie

The Old Masters, Thomas Bernard