Two new books in the former native speaker's library

University of Hawai'i Press has a clearance sale going, so I bought two books--I think they were a dollar each:

• Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning, by J. Marshall Unger
• Family Catastrophe, by Wang Wen-hsing (translated by Susan Wan Dolling)

I have to admit, though, that I haven't had time to read anything except for student writing since the beginning of the semester, so I don't know when I'll get around to reading these. Ah, for those long lost days of my "sabbatical"...