maggie Sun

@maggiesunjuan (566)

China • Age 43

Joined myLot 18 years ago

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My book review on A Town Called Solace

maggie Sun @maggiesunjuan (566) • China 27 Feb

I’ve just finished reading the book.Actually I bought it in Nov or Dec, 2022 or so, it was on the list of the 2021 Book Prize . I bought it with the intention of improving my English and also of enhancing my ability in reading...

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4 people

What books are you reading these days?

maggie Sun @maggiesunjuan (566) • China 25 Feb

I read the other day that more people in Britain don’t read on the subway but play phones instead. I’m curious about this: do you still read now? Especially when you graduate from schools and even when you married and have kids?...

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2 people

The meaning of the word 'sprunkled'

maggie Sun @maggiesunjuan (566) • China 27 Feb 23

Hi everyone. I encountered this new word while guiding my students reading a novel Walk Two Moons. The plot was like, the heroine's grandpa stole the senator's spare tires and got caught, so he explained like "We had flat and...

walk two moons

sprunkled tyres

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7 people

How's the week?

maggie Sun @maggiesunjuan (566) • China 17 Feb 23

It's Friday today. I'm going to finish this week now. But we still have a meeting on Saturday morning. Anyway I had a good week. I did some translation work, watched some movies, celebrated my mom's birthday and received flowers...

valentines day

the past week

roses

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3 people

Megan the film

maggie Sun @maggiesunjuan (566) • China 16 Feb 23

I just saw a film directed by the famous James Wan. Megan, which is short for some words that I couldn't remember, is an AI toy, it looks like a real little girl and could listen to children, talk to children, play with them, and...

james wan

megan

movie

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Back from holiday

maggie Sun @maggiesunjuan (566) • China 30 Jan 23

Hi everyone! I'm back from the Spring Festival, which is Chinese lunar New Year. We were very busy buying things--groceries, fruits, beverages, candies, nuts and red couplets which are decorations and we stick them on the door for...

the spring festival

new year

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8 people

I think I've lost a friendship

maggie Sun @maggiesunjuan (566) • China 12 Jan 23

I am now uneasy and anxious beause I think I lost a friendship. She was not actually a real good friend of mine, but she helped me and gave me some advice when I needed help. And we talked a lot at that time, shared our...

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5 people

How many times have you got Covid?

maggie Sun @maggiesunjuan (566) • China 10 Jan 23

At dinner time today I chatted with one of my friends via Wechat, an instant chatting software that commonly used in our country. She told me that she got covid again, which is very bad to her. She hasn't been back to work these...

covid

symptoms

variants

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6 people

Fantastic Film

maggie Sun @maggiesunjuan (566) • China 9 Jan 23

I am just back from the cinema. I saw the hottest movie: AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER, it is really fabulous, fantastic, outstanding and marvelous! The digital techniques are awesome! I wore a pair of 3d glasses and it was so...

avatar

the way of water

cameron

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4 people

Global Warming

maggie Sun @maggiesunjuan (566) • China 9 Jan 23

Where I live is in northeastern area, as it is every year, it should be superly cold in this period of time usually at -30 celcius degree, but today it is 1 celcius degree above 0. I have to take off my down coat and feel warm as...

global climate

warm winter

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4 people

Reviewing Three Bodies the book

maggie Sun @maggiesunjuan (566) • China 7 Jan 23

I read this one the year before last. There are three volumes of all. I am reviewing the book these days. Have finished the 1 volume and am re-reading the second right now. I love this book very much, who knows what will happen...

three bodies

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2 people

Saturday tired but happy

maggie Sun @maggiesunjuan (566) • China 7 Jan 23

We planned to get up early but woke up late. It snowed last night, we didn't take the highway but the normal road and that's why we got muddy spots all over our car. The road was covered with thick snow so the workers throw...

saturday

snow

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5 people

Good night friends

maggie Sun @maggiesunjuan (566) • China 6 Jan 23

I had a good day today. Tomorrow I'm taking a trip with family to a city nearby. We'll drive for 4 hours or so, take my two daughters to reexamine their eyesights, do some shopping and drop by my mother-in-law. Haven't been on a...

Are there any good TV plays?

maggie Sun @maggiesunjuan (566) • China 6 Jan 23

I am a fan of Westworld, the Lost, FRIENDS and some ones with suspensions like Love, Death and Robots, Black Mirror, No.9 Cases. And some other ones which I watched through but with little impressions. Oh, and Two Peaks which is...

tv plays

suspension

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Good night everyone

maggie Sun @maggiesunjuan (566) • China 5 Jan 23

It's quite silent right now since it's already midnight. I was supposed to re-read the second volume of Three Bodies tonight but found myself surfing on mylot the whole night. Tomorrow I have to work again for 8 hrs with some...

good night

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2 people

How do you choose a gift for your beloved ones?

maggie Sun @maggiesunjuan (566) • China 5 Jan 23

I always have this trouble in selecting gifts to my husband. Everytime I buy something like a shaver or purse he will say, " Don't spend money I don't need it." I can tell that he doesn't like it that much since he just put it...

sending gifts

choose gifts

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3 people

Need a booklist

maggie Sun @maggiesunjuan (566) • China 5 Jan 23

For a new year, I think I need some good books. Last year I read Everything I Never Told You, Gone Girl, and before that I'd read Joy Luck Club, The Shining, Flipped and some other books. Do you have any better choices? I'd like...

books

english books

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3 people

what do you expect for 2023

maggie Sun @maggiesunjuan (566) • China 4 Jan 23

New year comes but nothing changed, I just got recovered from covid and has back to work. It is said that the world economy will become much worse. There seems to be nothing but just working hard in the new year to fight back the...

2023

new year

covid

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4 people

What to do when you are with your children

maggie Sun @maggiesunjuan (566) • China 4 Jul 19

Here comes my 9-year-old daughter's summer vocation. She got a good score in the semester final test, and she's very happy. I'm wondering what we are going to do in the one-month summer vocation. On school days, I send her to...

children

learning

reading

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7 people

what's the difference between "nothing" and "nuthing"?

maggie Sun @maggiesunjuan (566) • China 3 Jul 19

I'm an English learner and I've never been aboard though I have always been dreaming of being aboard. When I read English novels, I'm always confused with the spoken Engish, for example, somebody in the novel would say, "nuthing...

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4 people