Insight Guides Taiwan edited by Bernd Hans-Gerd Helms  

Got this book about 10 years ago right before I started living out there.  This time, I was mainly looking at the pictures and rereading the portions I had highlighted when I was younger. 

 

The Other Wind by Ursula Le Guin

You know that movie, The Jane Austen Book Club?  There's one guy in the club who's hot for an older woman--also in the club.  Anyway, he recommends some Ursula Le Guin books to her.  While The Other Wind isn't one of the ones he recommended, I chose it because it was thinnish.  I'm totally not a sci fi person but I decided to try it out.  So far I'm not enamored, but I'm only on page 17 or so.